By Barrie Davenport

What if you focused your life only on the activities, purchases, decisions, and behaviors that brought you the most happiness and satisfaction?

If you poured all of your actions and behaviors into a sieve and allowed the least vital stuff to fall through the holes, you’d have about 20% remaining. This is a real observable phenomena known as Pareto’s Principle or the 80/20 Rule.

This rule suggests that 20% of anything is always responsible for 80% of the results. You can apply the 80/20 Rule to almost anything, from the science of management to the physical world.

Now, if you apply this principle to every aspect of your own life and focus with intensity on that 20%, imagine how pristine and amazing your life could be. You can manipulate the 80/20 Rule... More...