How to work smarter, not harder, for maximum results

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Last week I wrote about the Law of Wasted Efforts. This week I remembered the second law of nature that has impacted my life. Pareto Principal states that 20 per cent of inputs is responsible for eighty per cent of results.

In the Law of Wasted Efforts, a lion will kill only one out of four preys they attempt to catch. Meanwhile, Pareto Principle also called Pareto Rule or the Law of a Few shows that 20 per cent of lions are responsible for 80 per cent of caught prey. A few years ago I was in a valley, that season of life when nothing seem to work.