89. The Law of Priorities
Your ability to set clear and accurate priorities on your time determines the entire quality of your life.
The very worst use of your time is to do very well what need not be done at all. The Pareto Principle says that 20 percent of your activities will account for 80 percent of the value of your activities. This means that if you have a list of ten items to accomplish, two of those items will be worth more than the other eight items altogether.
To achieve great things, you must always be concentrating on the small number of activities that contribute the greatest value to your life and your work.
The value of anything in your order of priorities can be measured by assessing the potential consequences of doing it or ...
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