Pareto with Parkinson's will help to get more out of life

Today, I met an interesting article about Parkinson's law and how you can take a look at their goals and efforts to such an angle in order to evaluate their impact, rather than the rather abstract terms of importance and urgency.

Take a look at this chart:

Instead of the traditional longer of importance and urgency in the quadrants used investments and returns. Looking at what you do, you can understand that from a list of your affairs, past and present brings you the maximum return with minimum investment, and that wastes time, without giving anything in return. Of course, we are all smart and in general could do without such a scheme, but... it is demonstrative, it is simplified and it helps.

But how to use it, you ask. Stagger your typical tasks for selected quadrants, as attachments (since we're talking about business) should take into account your time and effort, that is, complexity. As an impact - satisfaction, which is the ultimate form of any activity, even spending "vulgar" money.

As a result, you are likely to see that they will not except your tasks and distributed by "Pareto law«. Most likely 80% of all problems brought little in return: routine work with the accounts, documents, implementation of small but it seems mandatory cases. The remaining 20% ​​are the tasks that bring you 80% of the pleasure and satisfaction in life. And, as you can see their schedule - not all of them require a large investment of time and effort.

Now you can only do a simple conclusion - the optimization of the "profit" is to reduce the number of "Non-profit", but expensive activities and an increase in those who bring a maximum with minimum effort good.

All trivial, no new truths.

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