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Focus - Where Do You Want To Be?

Guest post by: Clare Evans

Article Overview: What do you want more of? What do you want less of? In reality we spend a lot of our time, effort and money on achieving things that we don't really want or that aren't going to get us what we want.

Focus - Where Do You Want To Be?

I've been reading Richard Koch's The 80/20 Principle. Essentially, how to do more with less. Who of us wouldn't want to have more but do less in order to achieve it?

What do you want more of?

What do you want less of?

In reality we spend a lot of our time, effort and money on achieving things that we don't really want or that aren't going to get us what we want.

How much more productive would we be if we focused 20% of that effort on achieving 80% of the results. In very simple terms, that's what the 80/20 Principle is about. You get 80% of the results with 20% of the effort, whether that's time, people, money, effort - it can be applied to pretty much anything. 20% of the salesmen achieve 80% of the results, 80% of the population live in 20% of the cities, 20% of the population have 80% of the wealth.

When you want something, all the Universe conspires in helping you to achieve it. [Paul Coelho - The Alchemist]

The basis for the Law of Attraction is that if you focus on what you want, the Universe will provide. All well and good but you do actually need to do something in order to achieve it. You can't just sit back and wait for the phone to ring. Once you're focused, you are more open and aware of the opportunities that present themselves to you. These don't always come from when and where you'd expect them.

Where are you going?

So where do you want to go? What is it that you really want to achieve in your life? Be honest, realistic and most of all, specific about this. More money is all well and good and probably something that we'd all like but what will more money give you and how much more do you want?

What is your passion and purpose in life? Cut out all the extraneous wants, the things that don't really mean much - think about the things that are important to you - think quality rather than quantity.

How are you going to get there?

Having focused on where you're going, now you can focus on how you're going to get there.

There may be 101 ways to get where you're going but some of these will be easy and some of these will be hard. What you want is the quickest, easiest and most effective way. Minimum effort, maximum results. This may not always be the most obvious one. In fact often it isn't. While the most direct route from A to B is a straight line it may not be the best solution. If the direct route happens to have a mountain in the way, it's easier to go around.

What would be an 80/20 solution or route for you? What would get you there with less time, effort and cost? Don't try re-inventing the wheel if someone else has already done what you're trying to do; learn from them.

Which option gives you more with less for your particular situation? The first one you think of will probably be the most obvious and the one that is likely to come as much from habit as anything. Take a while to think about other options, step back, brainstorm some ideas, ask your friends and colleagues. Find something better that gives you more with less for your particular skills, abilities and way of doing things.

The ideal solution is likely to be the one that pops up out of the blue or comes from an unexpected direction, possibly when you're thinking of something entirely different, so give yourself a break every now and then.

Forget about all those things that aren't really important and find the 20% that is. This month make sure that you're focusing on what you really want - for your business, yourself and those around you.

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