RULES TO LIVE BY

25 – 5 RULE

Write down 25 things. Pick the top 5. The things you circle are the priorities. Everything else is things you should never do. (Often attributed to Warren Buffett.)

80 – 20 RULE

The 80-20 rule, also known as the Pareto Principle asserts that 80% of outcomes (or outputs) result from 20% of all causes (or inputs) for any given event. In business, a goal of the 80-20 rule is to identify inputs that are potentially the most productive and make them the priority. Another way to look at it is that 80% of all related issues come from 20% of people.

1% CHANGE RULE

Change your life by altering yourself 1% every day to the person you want to be. Even with setbacks, you will be that change at the end of the year. (After James Clear, *Atomic Habits*.)

PRE-COMMITMENT

Motivation happens after you start, almost never before. The greatest amount of friction in change is at the beginning. Motivation doesn’t work. Intention does. If you want something, if you need something done, write down what you want with the date and the time. Post it with tape on your bathroom mirror.

90 – 10 RULE

Life is 10% of what happens to us and 90% of how we react to it. (Attributed to Charles Swindoll.)