Work is important. No doubt about that. That is the reason why we keep looking for ways to be more productive – to work better, faster, more efficiently all the time. We want to produce more and more all the time.

However, often in the process of becoming super productive, we forget the thumb rule of productivity – take care of the one who produces. If you can’t work or aren’t fit or aren’t happy, all optimization, all productivity will go waste. Always ensure that one who produces is in his best state – of mind, body and heart.

Minutes add up to hours and hours to days. As we spend time waiting, we end up wasting days of doing nothing but just waiting. More over, how your wait time goes affects your mood and productivity after the wait time is over as well.

3 Things To Do To Optimize Your Wait Time -

Also known as “80/20 Rule“, “Rule of the Vital Few” and “Principle of Factor Sparsity“, Pareto Principle is named after an Italian economist – Vilfredo Pareto, who observed that 80% of income in Italy went to 20% of the population. As he carried out surveys in other countries, he found a similar distribution pattern everywhere.

This pattern can be found in life as well, for instance -
• 80% of your happiness comes from 20% of your activities
• 80% of the time you wear 20% of your clothing
• 80% of your sales comes from 20% of your customers etc
• You can basically summarize this as 80% of your output is produced by 20% input.

Productivity comes from identifying which 20% gives you 80% of positive results and maximizing on those; similarly, which 20% gives you 80% of negative results and eliminating those. The idea is to put in minimum effort to gain maximum results.

Do you have to search for keys everyday? Or have a pile of clothes on the bed (all over the house actually)? Is your drawer full of important papers in which you just can’t find the one you are looking for? Then this old adage can do wonders for you – ‘A place for everything and everything in it’s place’.