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     Do you know of The Pareto Principle?   It states that for any given thing, 80% of the effect only comes from 20% of the cause; in other words 80% of the most favorable outcomes for any given situation are the results of only 20% of the actions taken.

This priciple can be transferred over to your business and life as well for example in most businesses 80% of the profits come from 20% of the clients.

And

In life 20% or your true friends are only discovered after having interacted with 80% of the people that you connect with and form a casual acquaintance with.

I was reading about how this principle was affecting one of my business friends, his name is Ken McArthur and he was talking about how he was changing the way he is interacting with his friends, family, and clients.  He presented 2 lists which I found quite interesting, check these out:

Here are some very common things that don’t work.

• Trying to please everyone
• Trying to help everyone
• Trying to fix everyone
• Trying to do everything
• Trying to know everything
• Trying to be everything

So I’m going to …

• Please people who want to be pleased
• Help people who want to be helped.
• Fix people who want to be fixed.
• Do what is effective.
• Know what is needed.
• Be the best I can.

Regarding the Pareto Principle I am going to follow Ken’s lead and put this information into practice in my life as well.

In regards to finding a way for knowing who’s who in your sphere of influence how do you know who is worth your time and who is not?  Another influential blogger and social media personality whose blog I found interesting lately is Paul Colligan , he had an interesting blog post about online influence as it pertains to one’s Klout Score, you can see mine by clicking HERE <—-

The main question that Paul asked is: “is Klout.com relevant” in the social networking sphere as a viable way to measure influence?

I think that – Yes, it is however it’s not the only way to measure influence.  For example, I know that some of my friends and family do not have a Klout.com account nor do they even care to spend the time learning more about it or setting one up.  On the flip side of that I can tell you that for those of us who are fascinated by the social networking phenomena and how blogging, networking and the internet mesh together to shape and influence relationships, Kout is a cool tool that does help and provide insights that wouldn’t otherwise be available or easily displayed in the manner in which they present their data.

I don’t want to get to far off course so I will close by saying that my interaction with you is important to me and I hope you can tell by previous posts as well as with what I have just shared with you that I want to continue to dialogue and share conversations with you.  I also want you to tell your circle of influence about me so spread the word about this blog on all those social networks and if you have a cool social networking tip that you care to share – please comment about it below.

With my best regards always,

Mark Edward Brown