Common for the workday to be destroyed by menial tasks and distractions? Ever started the day with a plan and ended it with nothing done?Pareto's Principle, the 80/20 Rule, serves as reminder to focus 80 percent of your time and energy on the 20 percent of those activities that are really important.
20% of our effort creates 80% of our results.Which means the other 80% of our effort is not serving us – Scary!
Ask yourself these questions?
Looking back......Review your day and week that have just past
What did you achieve that was critical to your organisation?
How long did it take you?
What else did you spend your time on?
Looking ahead..... make a change
What are the 20% or 3 things that are critical to the day or week ahead?
What is not?
Look at your to do list with a mentality of 'Delegate or Destroy' and identify 5 things that could fall into this category. If we are honest with ourselves there are some things that we have been trying to do for weeks, some even months! How important are they and are they really mission critical?
Look at your workplace and your responsibilities with fresh eyes. Have a conversation with your manager and ask some new questions. The answers may surprise you.
