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Originally Posted by Refocused Living  I think it's an interesting concept for sure, but... how far can you break down an activity with the 80/20 rule? To me, it's one of those things that looks snazzy and helpful on the outside, but it lacks any intrinsic value - it's so much easier to ask myself "What do I want to accomplish in the long term?" and start work from there.
I do agree with that, though! Persistence at carrying out small tasks always leads to something bigger and greater down the road. |
Hi Refocused Living,
Thanks for your opinion and it is from others opinion that we can learn to look things at different perspective.
I agree with what you stated, "What do I want to accomplish in the long term?"
Knowing what do we want in the long term is important because it get us on track but in the same time we need to do activities that will give us more value in order to get us to where we want to be.
For example, if we have a long term goal of becoming a millionaire,yet we are still doing activities such as surfing the web aimlessly, meeting up with friends for chit chat and still in a day job and not making any effort to create multiple streams of income, (These are the activities that needs 80% effort and only return 20% value) I believe becoming a millionaire will be just a dream and not attainable.
This is where the 80/20 rule will help us to sort out our priorities by finding activities that will provide more value in return of our time.
I had drew a figure that will help us to allocate our activities, so that we can choose to do more of the highest value activity rather than the lowest value activity. You can read it to find more information on finding high value activities.
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Vincent
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