In chapter-3, the author introduces us to a new concept called 80/20. You can see this pattern in almost everything you comes across in our day to day life. Like in a given area/country 20 percent people will govern the rest of 80 percent people or 20 percent people will be wealthier compared to 80 percent, 20 percent of the customers will be responsible for 80 percent of the sales, etc., In the same way 20 percent of your activities will reflect the 80 percent of your results.

So framing the 20 percent is more important and the author is calling that 20 percent as “Vital few” and the remaining 80 percent as “trivial many”. As discussed in the previous chapters, we tend to spend our energy addressing things from the 80 percent and feel that we did not achieve anything. But that has to happen in the reverse order. From the entire pile of the activities you have listed, pick the top items that you feel either difficult to achieve or tedious yet valuable.

Focus should be given to that 20 percent items. So if you knock off the items from the “Vital few” you feel accomplished and achieving the things from 80 percent or the “Trivial many” shouldn’t be that tough.

As a reader even I am trying to follow and implement these principles in my day to day life and will share my experience in the future blogs. But to me this is very much achievable and we all should give this a try.

Happy reading and see you all in the next chapter discussion.