Welcome to the blog millionaire, where we break down the essential strategies of today's most successful bloggers

to take your blog to the next level with top-notch content, monumental traffic growth, and multiple revenue streams to go beyond your wildest goals.

So get ready to blog like a pro and make your traffic explode with your host, whose blog gets more than one million visitors every single month, Brandon Galey.

My name's Brandon Galey and welcome to episode 146 of the blog millionaire.

In this episode, I'm going to break down four of the primary principles

of Tim Ferriss's book, The Four-Hour Workweek, and how you can apply them to blogging.

Let's go ahead and get right into the first principle, which is, true productivity comes down

to less being more. Back in the late 1800s, there was an

economist that noticed something peculiar about his pea plants. As he studied the pea plants,

he identified that 20% of the pods were producing 80% of the peas. This man, by the name of Vilfredo Pareto,

went on to see if this ratio was occurring in other places. Peretto found that 80% of the land in

Italy was owned by 20% of the population, and those 20% of landowners made up 80% of the total wealth of the country.

This became known as the Pareto principle or the 8020 rule.

You probably already know that I have a very unique health condition that requires me to be in bed sleeping

for around 12 hours each day. When you take into account the effects of the drugs that I use,

the total time I'm incapacitated is between 13 to 14 hours a day. Don't get me wrong. I am not complaining. Ten years ago, I was physically and

mentally disabled by this disorder. This disorder was keeping me from being able to get enough sleep

for my body to recover. After seeing almost 100 different specialists across every field, one doctor finally came up with an

outside-the-box solution of keeping me asleep longer. After sleeping close to 18 hours a day for a month,

my mind came back online, and three years later, I was healthy enough to start working on my own business.

With essentially being out of order for 13 to 14 hours a day, the Pareto principal became my

best friend many years ago. I actually changed it to the 90-10 rule. I narrowed down the 10% of things that I did to produce 90% of my results for my blogging business.

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