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Eliminate
or reduce the low-value activities. For the 80 per cent
of activities that give you only 20 per cent of results,
the ideal is to eliminate them. You may need to do this
before allocating more time to the high-value activities
(although people often find that firing themselves up to
spend more time on the high-value activities is a more efficient
way of forcing them to set aside the low-value time sinks).
First reactions are often that there is little scope for
escaping from low-value activities.
They are said to be inevitable parts of family, social or
work obligations. If you find yourself thinking this, think
again. There is normally great scope to do things differently
within your existing circumstances. Remember the advice
above: be unconventional and eccentric in how you use your
time.
Do not follow the herd. Try your new policy and see what
happens. Since there is little value in the activities you
want to displace, people may not actually notice if you
stop doing them. Even if they do notice, they may not care
enough to force you to do them if they can see that this
would take major effort on their part. But even if dropping
the low-value activities does require a radical change in
circumstances—a new job, a new career, new friends, even
a new lifestyle or partner—form a plan to make the desired
changes. The alternative is that your potential for achievement
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