Ten High Value Uses of Your Time

Richard Koch, author of The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Success by Achieving More with Less wrote this list of the top ten highest-value uses of your time.

  1. Things that advance your overall purpose in life
  2. Things you have always wanted to do
  3. Things already in the 20/80 relationship of time to results
  4. Innovative ways of doing things that promise to slash the time required and/or multiply the quality of results
  5. Things other people tell you can’t be done
  6. Things other people have done successfully in a different arena
  7. Things that use your own creativity
  8. Things that you can get other people to do for you with relatively little effort on your part
  9. Anything with high-quality collaborators who have already transcended the 80/20 rule of time, who use time eccentrically and effectively
  10. Things for which it is now or never