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In the age of distractions, a lot of people have trouble concentrating and doing necessary work on time. Attention spans are at an all time low, and people violate Pareto principle by spending more and more time on doing low value activities instead of things that truly matter.

People often like to complain about how they don’t have enough time, but the true problem lies in their willingness to prioritize tasks and focus on stuff that brings the most results.

Law that you’ll learn about in this post is, perhaps, the most important productivity hack you’ll ever learn in your entire life. If you implement this rule in all spheres of life, you’ll achieve tons of progress in just a few months, leaving your friends to wonder how you managed to do all this.

It’s time for us to learn about Pareto principle, why it’s important, and how you can use it to skyrocket your progress in business, fitness, dating, and other spheres of life. Let’s get started by learning how most people waste their valuable time.

How People Waste Their Time

As I said before, whenever you tell people about the good habits they can do to change their lives, a lot of them respond with “I don’t have time.” But why don’t these people ever have time? What do they spend their average day on?

As it turns out, most people’s days are filled with unproductive bullshit that brings zero value. Technically they work 8-9 hours a day, but little of that time is spent on doing actual work. Most intellectual workers:

• Check their email 50 times a day;
• Scroll on TikTok, Instagram, Twitter, and Facebook half the shift;
• Attend meetings that rarely create any new solution for the issue at hand;

Do you think that these tasks can help you move forward in life, or help you achieve freedom that you want so much? Of course fucking not!

And the worst part is that these people come back home and do nothing productive outside of their work. They just sit on their couches or computer chairs, watch Netflix 3 hours a day, or go on Reddit and complain about how hard life is, and how they can’t afford to buy a new house.

Is it any wonder that most people fail in life? They barely spend time on truly productive actions, but waste it on things that don’t matter.

What is Pareto Principle?

Pareto principle (also known as the 80/20 rule) states that only 20% of inputs are responsible for 80% of results. It means that 80% of things in the world are caused by the significant few – 20%.

If we try hard enough, we can see the application of this law everywhere:

• 20% of people own 80% of the world’s money;
• 20% of employees do 80% of company’w work;
• 20% of customers bring 80% of income;
• Top 20% of men get 80% of women.

This distribution applies to tasks and activities too. Pareto principle is basic and easy to understand, and we can use it many different ways to our advantage. Allow me to show you how you can use the 80/20 rule to skyrocket your progress and outperform all your peers.

How to Use The 80/20 Rule in Your Life

I said it before, and I’ll say it again: Pareto principle is extremely powerful, and by using it to create your daily routine, you can achieve great results while still having free time left.

Firstly, let’s start by looking at business, and seeing how this law can help you increase profits (and decrease countless headaches).

Boost Your Wealth

Many businessmen make a great mistake that costs them mental health: they try to please absolutely every customer, even if the customer constantly complains and tires them out.

Thankfully, you don’t have to do all that. In reality, only about 10% of customers bring 90% of profits to the business. If you want to have more free time and boost your income, focus only on contacting these 10% of customers, and stop calling the rest unless they call you first. Do this, and your business sales will grow significantly, your worries will decrease, and you’ll have more free time to spend on hobbies or with your family.

Similarly, aside from focusing on the best 10% of customers, shift your focus to the few vital tasks that generate the most results.

I don’t know which sphere you work in, but Pareto distribution is highly applicable in blogging. If you want to succeed in this industry and stand out from the rest, you shouldn’t spend hours writing posts on social media, checking email, or reading blogging guides teaching how to do every single little thing.

Instead, you focus on doing actual work that 80% of bloggers avoid doing: writing long, informative, and valuable articles that solve the audience’s problems and build your authority.

Waste no more time fucking around. Identify the most effective tasks, the best customers, and focus 90% of your time on them. See just how much better your financial life will be after this change.

Skyrocket Progress in Fitness

Pareto principle is highly appliable in fitness, too. To grow big muscle and make more progress, you don’t necessarily need to do weird exercises and try to hit your back or biceps from every fucking possible angle.

Basically, you just sit down, identify the best 20% of exercises for muscle growth, and spend most of the time at the gym doing reps of these exercises.

This way you’ll save time you spend in the gym, go to it 3-4 times a week, 1 hour at a time, and still look lean and muscular.

Similarly, identify the top 20% of foods that make you feel the best, help improve health, and eat these foods while cutting out processed junk. Eat the best foods, and you’ll boost testosterone, while growing significant muscle mass at the same time.

Improve Your Relationships

Finally, you can use Pareto distribution to improve your dating life.

A lot of guys focus their attention on girls who don’t want them, who bring heartbreak and trauma, but ignore sweet girls who try to gain their attention and genionely make their lives better. It isn’t an alpha thing to do, it’s just stupid.

If you date 5 girls, identify the best girl out of all them (20%), spend more time building a quality relationship with her, and cut off contact with toxic girls that whine and piss you off.

Again, you’ll save time, get way less headaches, and build a quality relationship with a girl that truly likes and admires you. This way you’ll also gain more respect from other people, as you’ll demonstrate loyalty and show your partner that you value her.

How to Build A Routine Using Pareto Principle

Now, here is the sweet part that many of you likely clicked on this article for. You wish to know how to build an optimized routine that will skyrocket progress and make you the most fulfilled. Firstly, we need to cut out all junk:

• Stop neurotically checking email, and check it only once a day at a set time period.
• Stop scrolling and posting on social media. If you have a business on these platforms, I highly recommend you move it to YouTube or your own website.
• Tell people you’re in contact with that you’ll only check messages once a day, and that they should call only if something is urgent.

Just these 3 tips are enough to help you conserve time and brainpower for more important activities. The second step is to know what these important tasks and things are, and write them down. Use these questions to help you in introspection:

• What are the 20% of tasks that generate 80% of my income?
• What are the 20% of goals that truly matter to me?
• Who are the best 20% of people that uplift me the most?

Take your time to think, and write down the answers. Finally, we must use the insights we’ve learned and build our routine focused on these few important things:

• Build 7 fundamental good habits and do them daily;
• Do focused work and produce quality content at specific times of day;
• Spend the remaining time with people that motivate, help, and support.

Summary

Most people in our society waste hours of time every day. Instead of taking action to improve their lives, they sit at home, scroll on social media, jack off to fucked up porn, and set checking email as their primary work task.

To double your results and leisure time, use Pareto distribution: identify the 20% of most important tasks and people, focus your attention on them, and minimize unnecessary bullshit.

• Work on the few important tasks, contact the best customers that are nice and pay a lot;
• Do the few effective exercises at the gym, and eat the best meals while cutting out others;
• Spend more time with the best people that have high vibrations and make you content.

It is much easier to live a great life than you think it is. You just need to act upon the advice you see on this website, and you’ll see your life improve greatly within a couple of months.

You can either wake up the same average Joe a year later, or transform into a proud beast that crushes obstacles he faces. It’s up to you to decide which outcome you want, and I sincerely hope you do the things that the 10% do. Good luck on your journey, dear reader.

If you have any suggestions for future articles, want to share your opinion about this post, or have any questions about it, feel free to write them down in the comments below. See you next time.