is one of the most profound concepts of time and life management. This rule states that

20% of your activities will account for 80% of your results, 20% of your customers will

account for 80% of your sales, 20% of your products or services will account for 80%

of your profits. And, 20% of your tasks will account for 80% of the value of everything

you do and so on. This means that if you have a list of 10 items to do, two of those items

will turn out to be worth as much or more than the other eight items all put together.

You often see people who appear to be busy all day long, but they seem to accomplish

very little. This is almost always because they are busy doing things that are of low

value while they procrastinate on the one or two activities that if they completed them

quickly and well, could make a real difference to their lives. Does this sound like you at

anytime? The most valuable tasks you can do each day are often the hardest and most complex,

but the rewards for completing these tasks efficiently can be tremendous. The fact is

that the amount of time required to complete an important job is often the same amount

of time as the time required to doing an unimportant job. Many people make the mistake of dividing

up their time over a number of items rather than over the importance of items that have

to be done. Now the difference is when you completed an important task, you get a tremendous

feeling of satisfaction from the completion of something valuable and significant. When

you complete a low value task using the same amount of time and energy, you get little

or no satisfaction at all. In fact, it tires you out and stresses you because when you

re looking and working on small tasks, you re not working on your big tasks and they

re building up like an avalanche overhang builds up. You must adamantly refuse to work

on tasks in the bottom 80% while you still have tasks in the top 20% left to be done.

Before you begin work, always ask yourself, Is this task in the top 20% of my activities

or in the bottom 80%? And if it s in the bottom 80% don t do it, just say no. BrianTracy-8020Rule-MM-2011-07-18

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