A Joosr Guide to… The 80/20 Principle by Richard Koch: The Secret to Achieving More with Less

What’s it about?

Do you ever feel like your efforts aren’t having as much impact as they should? Every day, people put their best effort into trying to improve their lives or their work outcomes, only to get lackluster results. To turn this around, people redouble their efforts, believing that they just need to work harder to see the results they really want. Not only is this usually ineffectual, it also often results merely in exhaustion and frustration. But why doesn’t this work? As it turns out, getting better results from your life and work is not a matter of working harder; it is a matter of working smarter.

Working smarter means figuring out how to be as efficient as possible, getting more work done with less effort, and finding ways to make the most of our time. The best way to do this is to follow a powerful concept known simply as the 80/20 Principle. The principle sheds light on a surprising truth: In life, finance, and business, 80 percent of the results we get come from just 20 percent of our efforts. The rest of our efforts are barely even useful!

Imagine if you could take that powerful 20 percent of your effort and make it grow, using it to expand your results to amazing proportions. Imagine eliminating your