Get The Two “P’s” Working For You

“You don’t need more time, you just need to decide.” -Seth Godin

“To achieve great things, two things are needed: a plan and not quite enough time.” -Leonard Bernstein

(1) The Pareto Principle: 80% of the results you seek will come from 20% of your actions.

(2) Parkinson’s law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

How to apply these two “P’s” towards anything you want to accomplish?…

Figure out the most vital actions. This will take some trial and error at the beginning. But commit to figuring out what those are. (Continuously asking yourself the magic focusing question will help.)

Once you’ve decided, eliminate everything else.

As a result of going through the first “P”, you can now apply the second “P.” Which is really just about having confidence that you can accomplish the vital action in whatever time you have. And do it really well.

Because you can. You really can.

P.S. – H/t to my friend Jeff for the Bernstein quote above.