| Do More | Do Less | Stop Doing |
| Things that bring greater value (80/20 Rule), greater rewards and satisfaction | | Things that bring little or no benefits (20/80 Rule) to your goals. Reduce or discontinue those activities or behaviours. | | Things that are no longer consistent with what you want or where you want to go |
| 1 | “Give me a lever long enough and a place to stand, and I can move the world.” (Greek philosopher Archimedes once said.) | 1 | Is there anything I am doing right now that, knowing what I now know, I wouldn’t get into again if I were starting over today?” | 1 | The law of complexity says that the level of complexity of any task is equal to the square of the number of different steps in that task. |
| 1.1 | Other People’s Knowledge | 2 | If answer is “Yes”, “How do I get out this situation, and how fast?” | | |
| 1.2 | Other People’s Energy | | | | |
| 1.3 | Other People’s Money | | | | |
| 1.4 | Other People’s Successes | | | | |
| 1.5 | Other People’s Failures | | | | |
| 1.6 | Other People’s Ideas | | | | |
| 1.7 | Other People’s Contacts | | | | |
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| 2 | Accelerate | | | 2 | Doing things that do not work. |
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| 3 | Multiply | | | 3 | Stop doing “non X” by saying “No” to demand on your time. |
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| See yourself as the president of your own personal service corporation, with one employee: you. |
| Your personal company, or any company, can increase its profits in one or more of three ways. |
| 1. The company can increase its sales and revenues, holding costs constant. |
| 2. The company can decrease its costs, holding sales and revenues constant. |
| 3. The company can do something else altogether, where one or both of the first two are possible. |