Why should there be a rule to do things well?

If you pay attention in your life, you will find a fact: those 20% customers always bring 80% achievements, 80% of the world's wealth is held by 20% people, and 80% of the world's people only share 20% of the wealth. The same is true of doing things. Only 20% of the things we deal with every day are key issues, and these 20% things determine 80% of the results. This is the so-called "Pareto Law", also known as the "28 Law".

People who do things efficiently know that they have to complete a lot of work, but not every job can achieve certain results. So they will concentrate all their resources and all their time and energy, and insist on putting the important things first.

Charles Schwapp, president of Bethlehem Steel Company, asked Li Jinmei, an efficiency expert, how to better implement this plan.

Ivy lee claimed that he could give Shuwap a suggestion in 10 minutes, which would improve his company's performance by 50%. Ivy Leigh handed Schwap a blank piece of paper and said, "Please write down the six most important things you will do tomorrow on this paper."

Schwap spent five minutes writing six of the most important things.

Aichu Leigh went on to say, "Now use numbers to indicate the order of importance of everything to you and your company."

Schwap spent another five minutes marking the order of these six things.

Ivy Leigh said, "well, put this paper in your pocket." The first thing you do tomorrow morning is to take it out and do the first and most important thing. " Don't look at the others, just the first item. Do the first thing until it is finished. Then treat the second and third items equally … until the end of work. If you only finish the first thing, it doesn't matter, you are always doing the most important thing. "

Li Chu finally said, "Do it every day-you just saw it, it only takes 65,438+00 minutes-and after you are convinced of the value of this method, please ask people in your company to do the same." You can do this experiment as long as you want, and then send me a check, whatever you think is worth. "

A month later, Shuwap sent a 2? A check for fifty thousand dollars and a letter. The letter said that this was the most valuable lesson in his life.

Five years later, this little-known steel mill has become the largest independent steel mill in the world. People think that the method proposed by Ivy Leigh is indispensable.

Schwapp often says to his friends, "Ivy Leigh taught me and the whole team to insist on choosing the most important things to do first. I think this is the most valuable investment of our company for many years! "

People's energy and time are limited, and the importance of everything is different. Many people do so many unimportant things in the limited time that they squeeze out the time to do important things. Charles Schwapp's success lies in his ability to rank things according to their importance. Being able to solve important things first solves the key to things:

One day, a philosophy professor in his late sixties was having his last class. At the end of the course, he took out a big empty glass bottle and four containers, which contained stones, gravel, fine sand and water respectively. Then he said to his classmates, "I will give you an experiment today, that is, how to put the contents of these four containers into this big empty glass bottle to the maximum extent." I saw this experiment when I was a child. I still often think of the result of the experiment and often use it to motivate myself. I hope every one of you can remember this experiment and remember the results of this experiment like me. "Said the old professor, while putting the stone in the big glass bottle, until it can't hold any more. Then he asked, "Is the bottle full now? "Students who have studied philosophy already have some dialectical thinking. Some students said, "If you put stones, it will be full." The professor took out gravel and filled the space left by the stone with gravel. Then he put the fine sand into a big glass bottle and filled the gap between the gravel. Finally, he added water to the big glass bottle. The students were all surprised. The old professor smiled and asked, "Can you generalize any philosophy from this experiment?" The students began to speak and argue enthusiastically. Some people say that this shows that there is no absolute perfection in the world. Some people say that this shows that time is like water in a sponge. You can squeeze out at any time if you want. Others say that this shows that space can be infinitely subdivided.

Finally, the old professor commented, "What you said has some truth, but you haven't said what I want you to know." Do you think against it or against it? If I put water first without putting stones, can I put stones, gravel and fine sand after the water is full? Think about it, is life sometimes like this? I just want to tell you that you will encounter many problems every day in your later life, and to deal with these problems efficiently, you must first distinguish the importance of everything. "

It is not difficult to see that the old professor pointed out how to deal with problems efficiently and live a successful life through a simple experiment.

In our life, we are often troubled by many trivial things, watching our lives sink into these trivial things, but in the end, we often neglect to do those things that are really important to us.

In real life, we can often see a weakness of human nature: avoiding the heavy and avoiding the light. Although I know which is more important, I always find various excuses and reasons to escape. Doing so will only reduce our work efficiency. On the contrary, if we can concentrate on the more important work parts and solve all the key points of work first, we can save a lot of time.

A person's life is short and time is limited, so we must clearly understand what is the most important and what is the key. Only by prioritizing things and doing the most important things for your mission first will you not lose the watermelon.

For the development of our career, we should also make a list according to the priorities of things. Then according to this order table, do the most important things first, which will be more conducive to improving our efficiency and moving towards our goals.