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a fifth of your time is likely to give you four-fifths of
your achievement or results and four-fifths of your happiness.
Since this may not be the same fifth (although there is
usually considerable overlap), the first thing to do is
to be clear about whether your objective, for the purposes
of each run through, is achievement or happiness. We recommend
that you look at them both separately. For happiness, identify
your happiness islands: the small amounts of time, or the
few years, that have contributed a quite disproportionate
amount of your happiness. Take a clean sheet of paper, write
‘Happiness Islands’ at the top and list as many of them
as you can remember. Then try to deduce what is common between
all or some of the happiness islands. Repeat the procedures
for your unhappiness islands. These will not generally comprise
the other 80 per cent of your time, since (for most people)
there is a large no-man’s-land of moderate happiness between
the happiness and unhappiness islands. Yet it is important
to identify the most significant causes of unhappiness and
any common denominators between them. Repeat this whole
procedure for achievement. Identify your achievement islands:
the short periods when you have achieved a much higher ratio
of value to time than during the rest of your week, month,
year or life. Head a clean sheet of paper with ‘Achievement
Islands’ and list as many as you can, if possible taken
over the whole of your life. Try to identify the achievement
islands’ common characteristics. Before leaving your analysis,
you might want to glance at the list of the Top 10 highest-value
uses of time on page 176. This is a general list compiled
from many people’s experience and may nudge your memory.
List separately your achievement desert islands. These are
the periods of greatest sterility and lowest productivity.
The list of the Top 10 low-value uses of time on page 176
may help you. Again, what do they tend to have in common?
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