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Productivity

Maximizing Productivity: Applying Pareto’s 80/20 Principle for Success

Corie Muldoon

PARETO’S LAW: Vilfredo Pareto is an Italian economist who is credited with coining the term the 80/20 principle. That is, 80% of results are driven by 20% of effort.

Tim Ferriss, author of 4 Hour Work Week, claims that each of us should revisit the 80/20 principle every four weeks and apply it to both our work and personal lives to see how we can focus on maximizing our productive output.

Sample questions to prompt your own 80/20 analysis:

Personal

Which 20% of daily foods provide 80% of nutrients?

Which 20% of daily activities support 80% of growth?

Which 20% of daily movement provide 80% of results?

Which 20% of daily actions provide 80% of energy?

Which 20% of worries fuel 80% of anxiety?

Work

Which 20% of my network supports 80% of my growth?

Which 20% of business activities generate 80% return?

Which 20% of content gets 80% of engagement?

Which 20% of finance activities bring 80% of results?

Which 20% of customers are driving 80% of revenue?


My experience with 80/20 analysis

I started implementing the 80/20 analysis in 2020. It’s a great exercise to help me narrow my focus on what I should be doing on a daily basis and who I should be surrounding myself with if I want to be happy, healthy, and fit in all areas.

The 80/20 analysis helps me produce more result with less effort. A few right things done each day = long term success. Analyzing the 80/20 principle helps you figure out what those few right things are for you.

And because we are always changing and evolving, reviewing 80/20 multiple times throughout the year allows us to keep a pulse on what’s really working for us, adjusting along the way.

When we start to narrowing in on the 20% activities that give us more result, our personal and work KPIs skyrocket. Going all in on a handful of activities each day is way better than overcommitting and being spread too thin.

I love this quote by Bruce Lee: “I fear not the man who has practiced 10,000 kicks once, but I fear the man who has practiced one kick 10,000 times.”

After I review my 80/20 analysis, I update my Life Map accordingly and use the Powerlist to keep on top of my daily goals.

Each day, in every way, we are getting better and better.

Impossible List

5k a day for 31 days (and counting!)

Corie Muldoon

Another goal checked off of the Impossible List! Today (7/1/23) marks 68 days in a row of walking / running a daily 5k.

What really inspired my to take up the 5k a day for 31 days challenge was to honor my Poppop who I love and miss beyond words.

Doing something everyday in honor of those who cannot. That thought motivates me and keeps me stepping everyday.

Accepting what is (the pain, the love, all of it) & powering through doing the best I can now.

5k at Wissahickon Valley
5k with Champ

Never did I think a daily loop around the block would turn into doing a daily mile for over 500 days (and counting), and a daily 5k for 31 days (and counting).

I simply say yes, lace up, and get after my goal day after day, and it’s adding up! One step at a time. One day at a time.

Through this experience, I’ve learned more about…

  • consistency: doing something small everyday no matter what’s going on in life; to be consistent is to carve out time daily to get it done, or to do it daily
  • integrity: making a promise and following through no matter how I’m feeling; to have integrity is doing what I said I’d do – doing my absolute best to follow through on whatever I said yes to
Neighborhood 5k
5k at the Philly Zoo

I often sit and ponder about what life is trying to show me and how these lessons can apply to my life situation; how can I use this lesson to move the needle just 1%?

Some life lessons since starting 5k a day:

  • Work on myself more intentionally (goal, strategy, tactics)
  • Make my heart happy: exercise, good diet, water, sleep, deep breaths
  • Practice building confidence and discipline to see my goals through
Neighborhood 5k
Neighborhood 5k

What’s next? For now, I’m keeping the daily 5k streak going and holding focus on the Impossible List.

My 2023 Misogi is to run 26.2 miles (doubled from last year), so that’s a big goal I’m working toward right now!

Stay tuned as I continue to train for a 12 hour race coming up early October 2023 🙂

Long run at the track
5k with JD and Mum

To @joediandrea, thank you for inspiring me to chase my dreams and for loving and supporting me the whole way.

To @cam00913, thank you for being so loving and supportive, for trying new things, and for talking to me about your dad, my Poppop.

Check out my ~runs~ highlight on my personal insta for recent runs.

5k at Wissahickon Valley
5k at Wissahickon Valley

If this blog inspires you, I encourage you to commit to your own fitness challenge.

Maybe it’s a daily loop around the block, daily mile, daily 5k, daily dimes (10 push-ups, 10 pull-ups, and 10 squats) – whatever your creative mind can come up with, the main goal is to do something every single day no matter what. THAT is where the real gains happen.

Fulfilling a small promise to yourself every day helps build the self-reliance, confidence, and discipline required to see goals through to the end.

Set a goal and get after it DAILY. Getting 1% healthier everyday. Love you all. Thanks for reading and for all of the love and support. Keep on stepping lil savages ♡



Update! I ended up clipping out 150+ days of 5k a day. Took me up to the Hainesport 12hr race on October 7th, 2023.

If you’re training for your own race and/or want to work on your mental health, I found so much value in 5k a day – give it a try 🙂

Movement

Daily Mile Minimum

Corie Muldoon

Hey friends! I just finished up day 199 of daily mile minimum 🙂

My current fitness goal: run/walk/hike 1 mile a day (minimum) – 365 days in a row.

A daily mile puts me at 10-25 minutes a day depending on if I’m running or walking…

Which in reality isn’t much time at all!

Lace up and get to stepping.

Daily mile minimum is a great mental challenge and a perfect example of an easy to do, easy not to do activity that we touched on a few days ago.

Movers! Do you vibe with the daily mile minimum / these type of fitness goals? What are you currently working toward?! Comment below!

Last summer I completed cycle outdoors 100 days in a row and found tremendous value.

Challenge yourself to do new things in a fun and realistic way. Need help coming up with a goal? Hit me up or comment below!

LOVE Y’ALL ♡

Getting Started, Mindfulness, Nutrition, Weight Loss

What you eat adds up

Corie Muldoon

Remember to bring awareness to what you decide to fuel your body with…

What you eat today will have a lasting impact on your health.

Think long-term.

You won’t see the results immediately, but overtime.

Meaning, your eating habits will expose you, either positively or negatively, as time goes on.

Good health begins with choosing better alternatives in the moment.

However, the key is choosing the better alternative time and time again until it’s habit.

If you need a place to start, I always recommend working on healthy snacking…

Start small, and start now! (-:


x Corie

General, Healthy Habits

Simple life lessons from Tony Robbins

Corie Muldoon

Change your story, change your life.

A belief is a feeling of certainty.

Turn your mess into your message.

The past does not equal the future, unless you live there.

With the right story and state of mind, you can make anything work.

Happiness is a decision.

Change your environment, focus, and language.

Your words create your world.

If we’re in our head, we’re dead.

Avoid emotional stacking.

Complexity is the enemy of execution.

Be really clear of what you really want and where you want to be.

Clarity is power. The more clear you are about something the more power you will have.

Where am I really? Rate where you are and where you want to be.

How’re you going to close that gap? Emotional hunger and intensity.

Crush, destroy, and replace any story of limitation: excuses on why you’re not where you want to be.

Suffering is not in the facts, it’s in the perception of the facts.

Your story is creating the pain: what’s bullshit about the story you’re telling yourself?

Stretch philosophy: when you say you can’t, switch to MUST. If you want freedom, you have to stretch yourself further.

Learned helplessness. Let life happen- surrender to it.

Massive action is the cure all.

Give more than you ever expect to receive and you’ll have nothing to worry about.


x Corie