1. The 80/20 rule.
This is one of the best ways to make better use of your time. The 80/20 rule -
also known as The Pareto Principle - basically says that 80 percent of the
value you will receive will come from 20 percent of your activities.
So a lot of what you do is probably not as useful or even necessary to do as
you may think.
You can just drop - or vastly decrease the time you spend on - a whole bunch of
things.
And if you do that you will have more time and energy to spend on those things
that really brings your value, happiness, fulfilment and so on
2. Parkinson's Law.
You can do things quicker than you think. This law says that a task will expand
in time and seeming complexity depending on the time you set aside for it. For
instance, if you say to yourself that you'll come up with a solution within a
week then the problem will seem to grow more difficult and you'll spend more
and more time trying to come up with a solution.
So focus your time on finding solutions. Then just give yourself an hour
(instead of the whole day) or the day (instead of the whole week) to solve the
problem. This will force your mind to focus on solutions and action
3. Batching.
Boring or routine tasks can create a lot of procrastination and low-level
anxiety. One good way to get these things done quickly is to batch them. This
means that you do them all in row. You will be able to do them quicker because
there is less "start-up time" compared to if you spread them out. And when you
are batching you become fully engaged in the tasks and more focused.
A batch of things to do in an hour today may look like this: Clean your desk /
answer today's emails / do the dishes / make three calls / write a grocery
shopping list for tomorrow.
4. First, give value. Then, get value. Not the other way around.
This is a bit of a counter-intuitive thing. There is often an idea that someone
should give us something or do something for us before we give back. The
problem is just that a lot of people think that way. And so far less than
possible is given either way.
If you want to increase the value you receive (money, love, kindness,
opportunities etc.) you have to increase the value you give. Because over time
you pretty much get what you give. It would perhaps be nice to get something
for nothing. But that seldom happen
5. Be proactive. Not reactive.
This one ties into the last point. If everyone is reactive then very little
will get done. You could sit and wait and hope for someone else to do
something. And that happens pretty often, but it can take a lot of time before
it happens.
A more useful and beneficial way is to be proactive, to simply be the one to
take the first practical action and get the ball rolling. This not only saves
you a lot of waiting, but is also more pleasurable since you feel like you have
the power over your life. Instead of feeling like you are run by a bunch of
random outside forces.
6. Mistakes and failures are good.
When you are young you just try things and fail until you learn. As you grow a
bit older, you learn from - for example - school to not make mistakes. And you
try less and less things.
This may cause you to stop being proactive and to fall into a habit of being
reactive, of waiting for someone else to do something. I mean, what if you
actually tried something and failed? Perhaps people would laugh at you?
Perhaps they would. But when you experience that you soon realize that it is
seldom the end of the world. And a lot of the time people don't care that much.
They have their own challenges and lives to worry about.
And success in life often comes from not giving up despite mistakes and
failure. It comes from being persistent.
7. Don't compare yourself to others.
The ego wants to compare. It wants to find reasons for you to feel good about
yourself ("I've got a new bike!"). But by doing that it also becomes very hard
to not compare yourself to others who have more than you ("Oh no, Bill has
bought an even nicer bike!"). And so you don't feel so good about yourself once
again. If you compare yourself to others you let the world around control how
you feel about yourself. It always becomes a rollercoaster of emotions.
A more useful way is to compare yourself to yourself. To look at how far you
have come, what you have accomplished and how you have grown. It may not sound
like that much fun but in the long run it brings a lot more inner stillness,
personal power and positive feelings.
8. 80-90% of what you fear will happen never really come into reality.
This is a big one. Most things you fear will happen never happen. They are just
monsters in your own mind. And if they happen then they will most often not be
as painful or bad as you expected. Worrying is most often just a waste of time.
This is of course easy to say. But if you remind yourself of how little of what
you feared throughout your life that has actually happened you can start to
release more and more of that worry from your thoughts.
9. There are opportunities in just about every experience.
In pretty much any experience there are always things that you can learn from
it and things within the experience that can help you to grow. Negative
experiences, mistakes and failure can sometimes be even better than a success
because it teaches you something totally new, something that another success
could never teach you.
Whenever you have a "negative experience" ask yourself: where is the
opportunity in this? What is good about this situation? One negative experience
can - with time - help you create many very positive experiences.
What do you wish someone had told you in school or you had just learned earlier
in life?
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