Focus On Where You're Going

I've been reading Richard Koch's Living the 80/20 Principle. Essentially, how to do more with less. Sounds like a great principle to me. 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. How much more productive would we be if we focused 20% of that effort on achieving 80% of the results. 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 in 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, etc.

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 get off your butt and do something in order to achieve it. You can't just sit back and wait for the phone to ring. The other thing that I've found is that once you're focused you are more open and aware of the opportunities that present themselves to you and these don't always come when and where you'd expect them.

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? 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.

Forget about all those things that aren't really important and find the 20% that is. This week make sure that what you're focusing on is what you really want.