Article - 57 Week 14 Are We All Stuck At 80?

Article - 57  Week 14

Are We All Stuck At 80?

We are creatures of habit. We keep on doing things in our work place day in and day out, exactly the same way and yet expect spectacular bonuses, promotions, and pay hikes. When we are even mildly poked to change, we defend back with extremely ingenuous excuses.  Little do we realize that most of what we do produces close to nothing and a few of what we do produces awesome results. I became a fan of Pareto's 80/20 thumb rule, the day I laid my mind on that. It tells us that 80% of our results come from 20% of our efforts.

What happens to the rest of the 80% of our efforts? What would happen if we stop putting those 80% efforts? Of course, this would take away 20% of our cake. If we are ready to sacrifice this 20%, we are effectively armed with 80% more time and resources. And that is huge. We can create miracles with that.

Easier said than done. We can not hold back when the mobile phone hums, knowing fully well that it is a call from a colleague from another location to hear out the frivolous details of yesterday's operations. The same can be given in a few lines on an email. And you had to stop half way through your "To Do" to indulge in this unproductive '80'. We call the client to find out some details which we already have and had failed to record in an easy way to refer today. Many times, we keep working to look busy to others, only to realize that the rug is being pulled from our feet because we skipped what we should have done earlier. And so on.

Therefore, pinning down this '80' is the first step towards personal effectiveness. We need to jot down a large list that falls under this '80'. Then systematically and methodically dispensing with them one at a time. Once done, we have a huge block of spare time and other resources at our disposal. The process is some thing like tuning and fine tuning. Our personal effectiveness, creativity, and productivity largely depends to the extent we can fine tune. The thing to be careful about is that, if stop tuning, we stop growing. And stagnation hurts as much or probably more than embarking on radical changes and styles in our efforts. So, let's change the way we think and change the way we work with an open mind.

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