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Boost Your Productivity by Focusing on the Things That Matter
Why Boosting Productivity is Crucial to Your Success in All Areas of Your Life
Setting priorities is crucial to your personal and professional success. I’ll share some of my experiences with this topic here so that you can decide what will work best for you. Before you get to work on anything, look over everything you need to do and figure out what is important. What matters, what doesn’t? By cutting out things like busy work, unnecessary errands, and the likes you can greatly boost your productivity. Focus on the important stuff, on the things that matter and make a difference.
Have you heard of the 80/20 rule? It’s used a lot in business and marketing, but applies to the rest of your life just as much. It states that 20% of your efforts give you 80% of the results.
Let’s say you’re working on a home improvement project. 20% of the time you spend working on the project will result in 80% of the progress you’re making. The rest of the time, you may be doing busy work, looking for stuff, or just standing there staring at what you’ve accomplished (or how much there’s left to do).
The key to boosting your productivity is to identify the 20% of the work you do that result in 80% of the results. Then just focus on doing that 20% work. Yes, you can cut your work load…
