The Pareto principle
Back in 1995 I was a very naive, kinda know it all, first year uni student. And in that year in Economics 101 I was introduced to the Pareto principle, or the 80/20 rule.
Simplistically it means 80% of consequences stem from 20% of actions.
And this to me is where health and wellbeing come into play.
Your time at the gym each week will be well under 20% of your week.
The time spent preparing a healthy meal, again, not even 20% of your week.
But those two things in tandem, also, still under 20% of your time in the week, will help you in all areas of life.
Work, family, friends, resting, relaxing. These things are all enhanced when we are healthy
Now I kind of know this through my own lived experience.
Years ago I was overweight, tired, lethargic, sedentary, and suffering depression.
A bit of a fast forward, well, around 21 years, and a small part of my time allocated to exercising each week and I am pretty healthy.
I see people here at the box each and every week allocate between three and six hours a week to exercising here with us, maybe another three at home planning and prepping meals and they are the fittest and healthiest they have ever been.
They are mums, dads, sisters, brothers, workers, single parents, singles, couples.
The point I am making here is that they are everyday people.
They all go about their workdays, take care of their families, play a sport, have BBQs on the weekends, head out for a meal, play video games, scroll socials, watch the latest Netflix series, and do what almost all of us do day in day out.
And they all do it with so much more vigour now they have that under 20% of their week down pat. Just that smallish time investment each week has them on top of a lot.
It comes in handy in these last three months of the year that go by in the blink of an eye!
They have this ability to put the Christmas get togethers into their schedules without to much hassle, and not feel bad about it, especially guilt as they know they have invested that under 20% in to make the other 80% amazing.
If you are ready to invest 20% in yourself, hit me up and let’s see if we can’t make the other 80% phenomenal!