From the course: Managing Your Time

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Using the 80/20 rule

Using the 80/20 rule

So let's start thinking about what it means to allocate your time more effectively at work everyday. I want to offer three simple ideas that will change how you use your time everyday to make yourself more productive. Now, the first rule is very straightforward. It's something I often call the 80/20 rule. It's a very simple idea. The idea goes like this. All work is not created equal. You have to look at every task, every person, every project, and ask yourself this. Is this bit of work something that absolutely is interesting and important to the level that it's strategic? That it'll move us forward as a team faster? Or is just work that's gotta be done? That's the 80%. The strategically important stuff, that's the 20%. And if you don't take the time every single moment you engage a new bit of work to ask yourself, is this an 80%er or is this a 20%er. You're libel to spend way too much time over investing in the 80%. I want to give you a couple of things to think about. You should…

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