You Would Never Want To Make This Same Mistake I Made Towards Achieving My Goals

I have always done things wrongly when trying to achieve my daily goals, but today I finally figured out what I have been doing wrongly.

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There is a difference between:

Completing quite Number of Tasks and Completing the Most important Tasks

Every day, I make a list of the tasks I have to do and try to finish the most of them, which always makes me attempt the easiest tasks first before the hardest ones, which are mostly the most important tasks. This tends to make me procrastinate these tasks until the next day, and often times, I end up taking action on the easiest tasks again before getting to these important hard tasks because the time would have gone by and I would have to procrastinate them until the next day the second time.

But now that I have seen that I have been doing it all wrong, I have seriously understood the 80/20 rule of Time management.

So what is the 80/20 rule of Time management?

This means that completing 20 percent of your most important tasks accounts for 80 percent of the other tasks left on the list. We can say that the top 20 percent are those tasks that would give more value to our lives and a sense of accomplishment compared to the 80 percent.

Most often, these top 20 percent of tasks are harder to complete compared to the bottom 80 percent, which is why most people tend to avoid the top 20 percent and begin with the bottom 80 percent, which is the easier task to complete.

In a sample case of having 10 tasks to complete in a day, there are two tasks that completing gives more value compared to the other 8 tasks remaining.

I gained this knowledge after completing the book "Goals by Brian Tracy" and now I am reading the more concise version of this book, which he titled "Eat that Frog!".

I have figured I have been doing things wrongly and am now planning on taking action to do things the right way. What is more important and valuable should come first, as it has a greater effect on my future than the less important tasks.

I now truly understand what he meant by this in the book:

"Dedicate yourself to getting better and better at the few tasks that you do that account for most of your results"

The things that matter most must never be at the mercy of the things that matter least

It is never about finishing all my tasks, but about placing priority on finishing the task with the highest value first.

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𝙰𝙱𝙾𝚄𝚃 𝚃𝙷𝙴 𝙰𝚄𝚃𝙷𝙾𝚁

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