September 12, 2011

Clean Your Home & Clear Your Mind

Filed under: Attitude Management, Personal Freedom, Stress Management, Time Management — Tags: , , , — Freedom Personal Development @ 2:30 pm

Have you ever returned from a trip and found your home to be a disaster? Have you looked at the sink in your kitchen, piled with dirty dishes and told yourself  “I really have to clean that” only to walk right past it? Is your office so cluttered with papers, post-its, bills and junk that you can no longer use that space? How about your bathroom? Is it difficult to find a space to put your hairbrush without having to move the hairdryer or facial soap? When you walk across your bedroom floor do you trip over shoes and pair of pants? In your living room, do you need to move over books, toys, magazines and misc stuff just to find a place to set your drink on the coffee table?

If you answered “yes” to any or all of the above questions than you are essentially hand-cuffing your ability to function Read More...

April 19, 2010

Multiple Applications of the 80/20 Rule

Filed under: Time Management — Tags: , , , — Freedom Personal Development @ 6:00 am

Abby Marks BealeHave you ever heard of the 80/20 Rule? It is also known as the Pareto Principle or the Rule of the Vital Few and it states that there is an imbalance between causes and results, between effort and reward.

The world is not equal where effort and reward are related. The Pareto Principle basically says:

- The majority of what you do each day (80%) has little impact.
- A minority (20%) has a major impact.

Here are some 80/20 rules and what you might want to do once you are aware of them:

80% of your profit is brought in by 20% of your clients.
Realize all clients are NOT equal. It is sometimes Read More...

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