80/20 Your Life! How To Get More Done With Less Effort And Change Your Life In The Process!

by Damon Zahariades

It can have an enormous impact on your diet, physical fitness, finances, and education.

focusing on items that matter and ignoring the rest.

Leverage

Rather than eating like a rabbit, I simply cut out foods filled with processed sugar. That single tactic had an astounding effect on my weight and physique. Rather than joining a gym and subjecting myself to intense daily workouts, I took short walks and did pushups. Again, the effects were immediately noticeable.

First, limit the number of items on your daily to-do list to seven. If you can get away with five, do so. It’s okay to maintain a brain-dump list. But your daily to-do list is something entirely different.

Second, only include high-value tasks on your daily list. Eighty percent of the tasks you’ll be tempted to put on your list won’t contribute to your goals. Focus on the 20% that will. Third, use only one task management system.

First, create a folder in your email app and label it “Requires Action/Response.” Place all emails that demand your attention into this folder. Second, pick two times during the day to clear out this folder. Be consistent with the times. If you decide to do it at noon, do it at noon each day.

First, as a general rule, 20% of your team members will produce 80% of your team’s output. Identify the 20%. These individuals are your hyper performers.

Second, figure out what motivates your top performers. Pick one or two of the largest influencing factors and deliver them. Third, provide additional training to your most productive employees. They’re going to drive most of your team’s output. Therefore, it makes sense to give them opportunities to broaden their knowledge and expand their skillsets.

same way that 20% of your employees will be responsible for 80% of your team’s productivity, 20% will cause 80% of the problems. This minority will make most of the mistakes,

I’ve mentioned Parkinson’s law in a couple of my other books. It dovetails nicely with the 80/20 rule. This law states that “work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” So if you give yourself five hours to clean your home, you’ll take five hours. If you shorten the available time frame to two hours, you’ll get everything done in two hours.

prefer to stick to a simple way of eating that incorporates natural foods while restricting processed foods.

First, focus on foods that offer nutrition. If a particular food offers no nutrition, refrain from including it in your meals.

Second, make a list of your favorite nutritional foods. Categorize them by type: fruits, vegetables, fish, chicken, etc.

Third, make a list of your three favorite lunch dishes and three favorite dinner dishes. These will be your go-to meals.

Stop Reading Novels You No Longer Enjoy

First, select novels that dovetail with your interests.

Second, commit to jumping ship at the 25% mark if a book fails to engage you.

“this too shall pass,”

Tabata training.

Second, calculate the company’s return on equity (ROE). That may sound daunting, but it’s actually simple. All you have to do is divide the company’s net income by its shareholders equity. Net income can be found on the company’s income statement. Shareholders equity can be found on the company’s balance sheet. Third, calculate the company’s price/earnings growth (PEG) ratio.

All you have to do is divide the P/E ratio by the company’s earnings growth rate (EPS). EPS figures can be found online at places like Nasdaq.com. PEG ratios under 1 are favorable.

people who have this mindset believe they can develop practically any skill through hard work and persistence. By contrast, people who have a fixed mindset believe that success stems from talent. You’re either born with that talent or you’re not.

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