Low and High value uses of time

Continuing on time effectiveness chapter in the book 80/20 Principle, I wanted to share the following lists from the book.

Top 10 Low-value uses of time

1. Things other people want you to do
2. Things that have been always done this way
3. Things you're not usually good at doing
4. Things you don't enjoy doing
5. Things that are always interrupted
6. Things few other people are interested in
7. Things that have already taken twice as long as you originally expected
8. Things where your collaborators are unreliable or low quality
9. Things that have a predictable cycle*
10. Answering the telephone*

Top 10 Highest Value uses of Time

1. Things that advance your overall purpose in life
2. Things you have always wanted to do
3. Things already in the 20/80 relationship of time to results
4. Innovative ways of doing things that promise to slash the time required and/or multiply the quality of results
5. Things other people tell you can't be done
6. Things other people have done successfully in a different arena
7. Things that use your own creativity
8. Things that you can get other people to do for you with relatively little effort on your part
9. Anything with high-quality collaborators who have already transcended the 80/20 rule of time, who use time eccentrically and effectively
10. Things for which it is now or never.

I have shared the lists as they are stated in the book to maintain consistency. But some items (I marked with * ) in lists didn't really make sense to me. But other points are correct. It is really true that we are highly motivated to do things which are likely to advance our purpose in life and so on.

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