Focus Your Frequent Flier Miles

If you travel regularly, you may have joined frequent flyer programs. A reality of many company and personal pocketbooks is that you may not always fly your favorite airline. You likely already noticed that earning a few miles in 10 different frequent flyer plans can prevent you from ever redeeming a meaningful travel reward.

So here's a solution: There are a couple of large frequent flyer program alliances that allow you to accrue miles from partner airlines, hotels, or credit cards. I suggest choosing a frequent flyer program or two from each large network based on your travel preferences (or perhaps the one that flies most conveniently to your favorite award destinations), then make sure to select the partner miles program upon check-in to accure flight miles in the plan of your choice. 50,000 miles in each of two plans is a LOT more useful than 10,000 miles in 10 plans!

Work for 20 Focus

It's reasonable to accept that some things we do are a waste of time. It's not be so easy to accept that MOST of our activity will yield no return! This blog is focused on the 20 percent (or less) that matters.

Vilfredo Pareto noted 150+ years ago the pattern of uneven distribution of wealth. Despite the efforts of countless politicians and economists to more evenly distribute money across society, 80 percent of wealth tends to end up in 20 percent (or fewer) of pockets. This "80/20" algorithm is familiar, yet few people apply it broadly to improve effectiveness. If you could engage in 20 percent of your work or your play and get all of the benefits (whether the result is fun, money, health or satisfaction), I think you'd be pretty pumped! There's great power in knowing what you want, and in knowing how to achieve it.

I'm blogging my own way to clarity and focus--so come along for the ride if you like, and help me find the path.