Stop Working More and Start Prioritizing What Works | The 80/20 Rule

And as I was reading John Maxwell's book, The 21 Laws of Leadership, he talks about it in one of his chapters, Priorities.

And in the chapter about priorities, he talks about the 80-20 rule.

And if you've never heard the 80-20 rule, you've got to listen to this.

The 80-20 rule says you get 80% of your results from 20% of activities.

This blew my mind the first time I ever heard it.

That means everything we're doing in life, we should be spending our time recognizing what works, not more work.

With this business I'm doing right now, I was spending so much time on social media, building reels, building constant contact, hoping to be the next YouTuber where people are paying me to show up and speak.

but I was spending so much time and I recognized I wasn't getting much results from it.

And I started recognizing where I got my results from and it was from being in contact with school leaders, being in contact with business owners and offering my services to them.

And that really changed it for me, doing book studies, free book studies to principals.

And I was spending my time doing all of the wrong things instead of taking a step back, breathing and saying, what works, not more work.

And that's what I did with my commercial office cleaning business.

I was spending my time doing everything in my business, I was in my business nonstop, constantly plugging holes, recognizing that I didn't think anybody could do the job nearly as good as me.

And then when I read the 80-20 rule, it said, if you can find somebody to do the job, even 80%, of what you can do the job at, you should absolutely hand it off to them, delegate it.

And if you're doing something and it's not bringing results and it's not required of you, you can just give it up.

You don't have to do it.

That to me was mind-blowing because I was spending all of my time in the business.

When somebody would call and complain, I would run down there and fix the problem myself.