Understanding These 3 Laws Will Give You an Edge in Life
<p>We’re constantly seeking ways to optimize our time and effort to achieve greater success in life. Putting 20 things on a to-do list everyday is pointless.</p>
<p>Streamline your efforts. With the number of daily distractions, starting with checking your phone first thing in the morning, it’s impossible to know what’s important. Everything seems urgent and important.</p>
<p><strong>The following 3 principles when understood and applied….can change everything</strong>.</p>
<h1>Pearson’s Law</h1>
<p>States that “that which is measured improves, and that which is measured and reported improves exponentially.” So basically, <strong>what gets measured gets done</strong>.</p>
<p>This principle emphasizes the importance of setting clear, specific goals and tracking progress towards those goals.</p>
<p><strong>So anything that can be measured and tracked…should be measured and tracked</strong>. Your weight, your credit score, your finances, etc. What you focus on expands.</p>
<h1>Parkinson’s Law</h1>
<p>States that “work expands to fill the time available for its completion.” This principle emphasizes the importance of setting deadlines for ourselves.</p>
<p>If you have 3 months to write a paper or complete a project, your brain tricks you into thinking you need all 3 months. At the 2 and a half month mark you start panicking and trying to slap something together.</p>
<p><strong>Try to give yourself shorter deadlines and you’ll figure out a way to get it done.</strong> See if you can get that paper due in 3 months…done in 3 days. You always find a way when it matters.</p>
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