The 80-20 Rule: How to Use Less to Be More Effective (3 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Staff Member: Precious Kc George

Founder & Owner of: Think Digest

Millionaire’s Digest Staff Team, Author, Successful Living Writer

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The 80-20 rule can be applied to every aspect of your life, yet it is widely forgotten by many. This is an old principle which says that from 20% of the causes you get 80% of the results. For example, you wear 20% of your clothes 80% of your time, you go out 80% of your time with 20% of your friends, you get 80% of income from 20% of the income generating sources.

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Passion as Purpose (4 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Kayla Arroy

Founder & Owner of: Essencentral

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor and Successful Living Writer

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“Only passions, great passions, can elevate the soul to great things.”

– Denis Diderot

How to Use Procrastination to Your Advantage (2 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Ibibo Ataisi

Founder & Owner of: Success Vista

Books, Business, Education, Entrepreneur and Successful Living Writer

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Procrastination is a major dream killer. It as done so many evils to the dreams and aspirations of many. We have all in one way or the other fallen to the dictate of procrastination.

In as much as we can go all draw out a long list of uncountable amounts of negativities that can be linked to procrastination, there are still some underlining benefits that we can get from procrastination.

One question we should ask ourselves is this: Why do we procrastinate?  According to Anthony Robbins, in his book AWAKEN THE GIANT WITHIN. He points to the fact that we can change a particular behavior if we can link so much pain to such behavior and pleasure to the new behavior we intend to develop.

Read: 4 Habits of Broke People that You Should Avoid4 Habits of Broke People that You Should Avoid

Taking this into account shows the fact that procrastination is mainly caused by fear of pain and failure.

The pain approach

So, for you to use procrastination to your advantage, you need to first, link so much pain to your present activities, that the urge for change becomes so strong that you can’t take it for a second.

For instance, you want to quit smoking, you should start linking all the negative consequences of smoking that you can think about.

Read: 5 Brain Hack that will Enhance your Creativity

This will make you develop a strong hatred for smoking and make you stay clear of every environment where smoking occurs. Also, it, in turn, makes you look for a more desired replacement.

The flip side approach

Another method is that you need to ask yourself these questions: What do I procrastinate? The things I procrastinate are they of value to me? What are those things of lesser values that are taking my time?

Read: Why You Should Spend Time Alone

After you are able to answer these, you decide to take actions on things of greater values, while you procrastinate those activities of lesser values.

The pleasure approach

Finally, we can get things done quickly and better if we can link so much pleasure to such behaviors or activities. We are doing what we do at present because we have this subconscious linkage of pleasure to such. So if you are able to link pleasure to things of value in your life, you will see yourself using procrastination to your advantage.

We would love to hear from you on what you think about procrastination and how we can overcome it.

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Article Credits: Ibibo Ataisi

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor

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The Benefits of Keeping Yourself Busy (1 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Jason Luna

Founder & Owner of: My Happy Little Blog

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Art, Blogging, Books, Entertainment, Family & Life, Fashion & Style, Food & Drink, Photography, Stories, Successful Living and Writing Writer

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“Start by doing what’s necessary; then do what’s possible, and suddenly you are doing the impossible.” – Francis Of Assisi

Dear readers, did you know that research shows that the busier people are, the HAPPIER they are? Wait… What? You do! Then this post is for YOU!

Hello Work Week! (2 min read)

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Staff Member: Nina Medina

Founder & Owner of: The Happy Life 101

Millionaire’s Digest Staff Team, Author, Successful Living Writer

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“Working hard and working smart sometimes can be two different things.”-Byron Dorgan

It’s work week again. The weekend for unwinding and relaxing is over, and it is time to face the world of “Work” once more. Here are some tips that I have for you on how we could make this week productive without being burnt out.

The Law of 33% (2 min read)

Written By Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Shaun Derenzo

Founder & Owner of: Daily Self Help Blog

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Books, Business, Education, Health & Fitness and Successful Living Writer

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I have recently come across a bit of information that, in the sense of how you learn from and socialize with others, may be very beneficial to you! This is The Law of 33%, as you have probably read above. This law states that you should carefully be dividing your time among three types of people.

4 Ways to Help You Stay More Organized (1 min read)

1. Plan.

In order to plan you want to dedicate a short but productive set of time to strategize, delegate and divide tasks. In addition, try to prioritize all your tasks and tackle them consecutively — don’t toggle back and forth.

5 Reasons Why Being Lazy Can Be a Good Thing (3 min read)

Written By Millionaire’s Digest Team Member: Paul Scott

Founder & Owner of: Oaktownvibes

Millionaire’s Digest Team, Contributor, Successful Living Writer

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Being lazy is a good thing. The most productive thing you can do, is to do absolutely nothing at all. The time you spend doing nothing is the most beneficial thing you can do, in route to your vision. With all the noise around you, its hard to listen when a bright idea comes.

7 Ways to Use the Power of Gratitude for Insanely Productive Results

Written by Millionaire’s Digest Staff Member: Precious Kc George

Founder & Owner of: Think Digest

Millionaire’s Digest Staff Team, Author, Successful Living Writer

Have you ever felt like you wish you had a magic wand to turn back the hands of time? Or a thing to do or drink, like a magic Potion that you could just take to make you insanely more productive and successful? Well I have.

Efficient Effectiveness (2 min read)

Ok broham, we’ve got a little something to talk about today.

This actually came up in my private Facebook group
So I thought it’d be a great idea to share my thoughts with
Everyone, since I believe this is something very important
That we all should know.

Ok so there’s 3 things that I think that we should all know.
Two of them they teach early on in school, but unfortunately
The third, not so much.
What are they?
Pretty simple really…

Addition, Subtraction, and the 80/20 rule or
As it’s formally called, Pareto principle
The first two (I hope) you already know, but the last one
You may not be so familiar with.
So let me break it down in our language so we can talk…

The 80/20 principle is simply about the law of averages.
It’s actually a principle of nature that is based on chaos theory.
Essentially what it amounts to is that 20% of what you do is
Going to amount to 80% of your results

It’s something you see everywhere.
20% of the population has 80% of the wealth
The average person uses 20% of their apps 80% of the time
20% of the clothes you wear probably 80% of the time
Contractors use only 20% of their tools for 80% of their work.

You see it everywhere and when you understand what it is
You can use it to help you in everyday life.

First of all, you will see that in nature nothing can be equal
So, if you’re hoping for a society where everyone has equal
Wealth or what have you, then you’ll be fighting nature
And that my friend, is a tough battle.

For the full potential of the 80/20 rule, it’s just a matter
Of doing whatever it is that you are good at and get better.
Pretty simple right?!

Not everyone can be a billionaire, but if everyone works to
Their fullest potential by finding power through strength
Then everyone can and will eventually help society
Become stronger as a whole. 

So do yourself (and society) a favor and stop living in the 80%

First, know yourself. Or as Socrates put it: “Know Thyself”
Sounds a little vague, but you can gain clarity by first
Getting in touch with yourself (ha…touch yourself) with
Daily meditation and exercise.
It doesn’t take long, but it has a huge benefit on your psyche
And helps you produce amazing results in every part of your life.