Copyright 2005 Rasheed AliIf there was ever a principle that was responsible for the
most happiness and achievement in the world, it would be
the 80/20 Principle.
The 80/20 Principle or Pareto Principle was discovered in
1897 by an Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto while he was
searching for patterns of wealth and income in England.
What he found was that 80 percent of the wealth was enjoyed
by only 20 percent of the population. Additionally, it was
consistent in different countries and in different times.
This has been found in present day as well and in almost
any activity that we perform, business or otherwise.
In other words, 80 percent of your results in a given
activity, are generated by 20 percent of your input or
effort. Just the same, 80 percent of revenue or profits are
generated by 20 percent of your efforts or sales.
The 80/20 relationship can also easily be documented in
personal achievement and happiness.
Most people have never taken the time to count their
achievements or much less figure out what makes them happy.
If they did, they would have realized that there are very
few things that contribute to most of their happiness. They
would also have found that there are very few things that
they have done that has resulted in most of their
achievements.
A great example of the 80/20 Principle in achievement would
be to look at some achievement that you've made in your
life, and write down all of the things that you did that
"truly" got you there. If you're looking at it honestly
you'll see that it took consistent effort on very few
things to get you most of your results.
My website http://www.RasheedAli.com is another great
example. I could have spent a lot of working hours and even
more money to get my traffic up, but in reality it took
very little work and money to get my Alexa traffic rank
from over 3,000,000 in the world to currently 212,901 and
climbing every week! It has taken very few, small but
effective steps to achieve this. You will find this time
and time again in your life if you take a closer look. What
you may have thought of as hard work may have been a few
effective actions combined with many ineffective actions.
By the way, this was done in less than three months.
Now, although achievement makes us happy, what else does?
A serious "Happiness Analysis" is also something all of us
should do at least once in our lives. If you documented the
things that contribute to your happiness then number the
things that make you the happiest, you will find that there
are only a few things that contribute to most of your
happiness. In other words 20 percent of the things that
make you happy, contribute to 80 percent of your happiness!
With that said, if you were to spend more time doing the
things that result in most of your happiness or
achievement, you WILL double or even triple your results
and success.
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*** Rasheed Ali was once a homeless & penniless and is now
helping to change the lives of thousands people from all
over the world. He publishes the Growing Rich Newletter at
http://www.SleepYourWayToRiches.com
