{"id":52,"date":"2012-10-13T01:24:18","date_gmt":"2012-10-13T01:24:18","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/?p=52"},"modified":"2012-10-13T01:24:18","modified_gmt":"2012-10-13T01:24:18","slug":"the-8020-principle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/?p=52","title":{"rendered":"The 80\/20 Principle"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know 20% of roads have 80% of the traffic? And statistically you probably wear 20% of your clothes 80% of the time? And this one blows my mind, 20% of married people get 80% of the divorces. Finally 80% of the wealth in 20th century England was in 20% of the most wealthiest people. Vilfredo Pareto and Italian economist discovered this. This is what we call the Pareto Principle now better known as the &#8220;80\/20 Principle&#8221;&#8230;&#8230;&#8230;So why the heck should you care? \u00a0You should care because 20% of your activity is leading to somewhere around 80% of your results in your life. This can be measured in profits, health or whatever variable you wish to measure (obviously this isn&#8217;t 100% correct but it is a ball park figure!).<\/p>\n<p>You don&#8217;t have to be a statistician to realize that you may be waisting a lot of time on things that do not really matter in the end and have no benefit on the results of your life. I think it makes a lot of sense to identify those few things that give you 80% of your benefit\/results and focus on them. Focus on what really matters in your life (the 20%) and watch your life take off!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know 20% of roads have 80% of the traffic? And statistically you probably wear 20% of your clothes 80% of the time? And this one blows my mind, 20% of married people get 80% of the divorces. Finally 80% of the wealth in 20th century England was in 20% of the most wealthiest [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-52","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-golden-nuggets"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=52"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":53,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/52\/revisions\/53"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=52"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=52"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/drpetereppinga.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=52"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}