Achievement and Happiness the 80/20 Way

Written by Rasheed Ali


If there was ever a principle that was responsible forrepparttar most happiness and achievement inrepparttar 123023 world, it would berepparttar 123024 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 ofrepparttar 123025 wealth was enjoyed by only 20 percent ofrepparttar 123026 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. Justrepparttar 123027 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 takenrepparttar 123028 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 ofrepparttar 123029 80/20 Principle in achievement would be to look at some achievement that you've made in your life, and write down all ofrepparttar 123030 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.

Guilt By Association & Wealth By It Too!

Written by Rasheed Ali


"Tell me what company thou keepst, and I'll tell thee what thou art." - Miguel de Cervantes (1547 - 1616) Spanish novelist.

Growing up I often heard my best friend's father Nick say, "Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you what you are!"

Well, that was usually followed by a long speech about why his son Frank should not have hung out with certain people.

I was like a second son to Nick so I would get to listen in on Frank getting yelled at. By that time, I had already been homeless and offrepparttar streets and working my way through High School, so I never thought of hanging out withrepparttar 123022 types that Frank did. Of course I was no angel but, I chose my friends as carefully as I could.

Frank never gotrepparttar 123023 point back then, but Nick knew very well aboutrepparttar 123024 power of association.

You see Nick, grew uprepparttar 123025 only son of an entrepreneur and brother to six sisters. Since he wasrepparttar 123026 baby boy, he got a lot of attention and love from his father. Although all ofrepparttar 123027 children did, Nick got just a little more.

Nick's fatherrepparttar 123028 owner of a motel and a construction company could rivalrepparttar 123029 strength and attitude ofrepparttar 123030 strongest ofrepparttar 123031 strongmen of his day and even ours. He grew up withrepparttar 123032 same mentality of his father ANDrepparttar 123033 strength to boot!

The problem with Nick was that he associated withrepparttar 123034 street gangs of his day and didn't listen to his father when he gave himrepparttar 123035 same speech, "Show me who your friends are and I'll tell you what you are!"

Associating withrepparttar 123036 wrong people didn't end there though, later in life he ended up associating himself withrepparttar 123037 some ofrepparttar 123038 most ruthless mobsters around and as time went on, Nick gained bothrepparttar 123039 wealth andrepparttar 123040 bad habits these guys had.

Finallyrepparttar 123041 days came when his acquired gambling addiction took all ofrepparttar 123042 wealth away. Although he could have lost his life many times, it tookrepparttar 123043 loss of his money to finally stop associating himself with these people.

"Associate yourself with men of good quality if you esteem your own reputation; for 'tis better to be alone than in bad company." - George Washington (1732 - 1799) US Statesman

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