What’s a guaranteed way to make little to no progress? Procrastinate.
This blog focuses on positive applications of the Pareto Principle. It’s exciting and motivating to think about the one lever that can move the world in the direction you’d like. Unfortunately, as easy as some of these tools are to apply in your favor, some tools are easier to apply against you. Worse, still, you apply these instruments against yourself. Procrastination is one of these.
Procrastination is the delay of action. If you told someone to wait to act, it could be interpreted as patience. Isn’t patience a virtue? Yeah, that’s one of the tricks of procrastination. While procrastinating you’re delaying action on high value endeavors and looking for instant gratification through low value activities. Procrastination is a highly leveraged version of the 80/20 rule. Your delay of the right action makes the result you want impossible. Now stop procrastinating and go do the right act for you right now.