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description: The Pareto principle states that for many outcomes, roughly 80% of consequences come from 20% of causes (the “vital few”). Other names for this principle are the 80/20 rule, the law of the vital few, or the principle of factor sparsity.
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# Managing limited resources with the **Pareto principle**[^3W]

[^3W]: The *Pareto principle* states that for many outcomes, roughly **80% of consequences** come from **20% of causes** (the "vital few"). Other names for this principle are the **80/20 rule**, the **law of the vital few**, or the **principle of factor sparsity**. [<sup><i class="fa fa-wikipedia-w"></i></sup>](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pareto_principle)

## 1. Identify the **tasks** that are really relevant.
:::spoiler **Tasks**
An important point is **prioritization**:
- Which tasks really bring you **closer to your goal**?
- To do this, you must first be **completely clear about what your most important goal is**.
- Once it has been consciously formulated, you will quickly **recognize which tasks contribute to the result** and which ones are rather time-consuming. 
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### a.) **Clear goal in short**
### b.) **Most important details about the goal**
### c.) **Prioritized tasks**
(time-consuming [0-100] contributive)
- [ ] [50] &hellip;

## 2. **Focus** and concentrate
:::spoiler **Focus**
**If you want to get everything done at once, you won't get anything done.** The *Pareto principle* shows that the motto *"a lot helps a lot"* is just not true. In addition to prioritization, **timing is also an essential factor**: Find out at what times you are particularly concentrated and use this time to **devote yourself to the most important tasks** as **undisturbed** as possible and **with full power**.
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- [x] **timing** as essential factor
- [x] **devoted** to the most important tasks
    - [x] **undisturbed**
    - [x] with **full power**

## 3. Accept that **resources** are limited
:::spoiler **Resources**
**With perfectionism and too high demands, we often stand in our own way.** We often have limited resources at our disposal. Instead of trying to make the impossible possible and aiming for the 100 percent, we should better ask ourselves **what is the best possible goal we can achieve with the given resources**.
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### a.) Limited resources
- [x] &hellip;
### b.) Best possible goal
With these limited resources&hellip;

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