80/20 Your Life: Get More Done With Less Effort, Time, and Action (Mental and Emotional Abundance Book 10)

by Nick Trenton

less is more, always work backwards, and most things don’t matter.

Being your own slave driver will not necessarily win you any prizes—it’s more a question of the efficiency and appropriateness of your efforts, rather than their raw intensity.

This need to overcompensate and do as much as we possibly can has two major downsides.

80/20 thinking: the Pareto principle itself, finding 80/20 paths and actions that are tailored to you, and acting with your happiness and not simply expediency in mind.

invest in stocks that are connected to fields you are a relative expert in. These

single thing we do is influenced by how happy we believe it will make us.

while their perception of success contributes to further success, your impression of failure limits this potential.

If you choose to be happy and perceive yourself as such, psychologists say that this tendency will go a long way in actually making you happy.

Pareto principle not just to business and productivity, but to maximize our own sense of happiness, fulfillment and contentment in life.

stock market investments, since the stock market has a lower barrier to entry but high potential gains. In budgeting,

100% perfection is not necessary—if we stick to a healthy plan most of the time, we can be a little flexible with occasional indulgences or mistakes.

We need to be honest about what is actually serving us and get rid of what isn’t adding anything, or what is actively harming us.

forgive ourselves and others for not being 100% perfect,

The rule helps us think about our compatibility with others and our standards in dating—what

can always make large gains by improving our emotional attitude, so our efforts should always be to prioritize our mindset first.