Volume 13, Issue 34: The Pareto Principle Lifestyle
I have found that even in a low season of life, I still don't have time for everything. There are people I want to sit down with, phone calls I want to make, books I want to read, places I want to go, and so forth. Yet, when I pause to look back, I am dumbfounded about how much time has lapsed since I last did some of the things I want to do.
There's so much vying for our attention each day and week. We are sometimes pulled in different directions for a myriad of purposes. So when I saw James Clear's post on living the Pareto principle lifestyle, it got me thinking about the adjustments I should make to show up well. Here's how James put it. "Live the Pareto principle lifestyle:
Relationships: Who are the few people that have the most positive impact on your life? Spend more time with them.
Priorities: What are the few actions that have the most positive impact on your day? Prioritize them.
Learning: What are the few information sources you learn the most from? Focus on them.
Stress: What are the few sources that cause most of the stress and friction in your life? Eliminate them."
For my relationships, I commit to calendarized every person I want to regularly call, visit or spend time with. Since time is limited, I also purpose to think of the people to eliminate spending time with.
For my priorities, I purpose to list down the actions that have the most positive impact on my day and diarize them to increase my chances of doing them each day.
For my learning, I need to narrow down my sources of information to the few that I learn from the most and eliminate all the rest.
For His Glory,
Lillian Chebosi