How Can You Achieve Your Desires? Identify the Activities That Really Matter for Success
Since I made this site I learned something very important — it is very difficult to concentrate on the things that really matter.
For example, I gave myself task to write a new blog post. I start with work. I chose the topic. I wrote the introduction. I did some research. While I research I went on Twitter to share some interesting things. There, I’ve lost more of my time for writing a new blog post. Then I went to some forums, and then I checked the mail. In the end, I had to sleep. I shut down the computer and lay down in bed.
Result: I spent time on Twitter, forums, mail. I have not put together a new blog post.
I lost my focus.
The main reason why people not realize what they have imagined can be explained in one sentence: People do not achieve what they want out of life because they lose focus in the process.
Is this happening to you? Again and again you waste time on things that are not important. Although you know what is important, you’re starting to work, and things are going well, you lose focus and end up with no results.
How to deal with that? I have spent a few hours of thinking (and exploring) and a couple of months making mistakes, which has resulted in the following suggestion for identifying activities that really matter for success. Just…
Avoid losing focus
Instead of constantly losing focus, concentrate all your forces to few tasks. In order to succeed in this you must:
- Select only the most important tasks.
- Act. Use your energy and time on quality assignments.
You must understand, life is too short to waste time on less important tasks.
I already hear you say: “But what about the less important tasks? Somebody has to finish them, right?”
Well, not. 
You see, your ultimate desire is probably to achieve a result, the outcome. Your ultimate desire is probably NOT that you work on low value tasks. Well, the good news is that a mass of less valuable activities can be replaced by several highly valuable activities for the same result.
It will try to clarify with one observation.
The Pareto principle (also known as the 80-20 rule)
It is the “law of the vital few” , an observation created by Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, says that for many events, roughly 80% of the effects come from 20% of the causes. Understand this observation to understand that it is not necessary to have 100 tasks in order to succeed (but 20 valuable ;) ) For more information, see:
- Pareto principle, From Wikipedia
- Pareto’s Principle – The 80-20 Rule By F. John Reh, About.com
- Pareto Analysis, MindTools.com
- Understanding the Pareto Principle (The 80/20 Rule), Better Explained
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