Table of Contents:
Introduction – Getting More Done Faster
Chapter One – The Psychology of Time Management
Chapter Two – Setting Goals and Objectives
Chapter Three – Getting Yourself Organized
Chapter Four – Establishing Proper Priorities
Chapter Five – Getting Things Done
Chapter Six – Managing Multi-Task Jobs
Chapter Seven – Time Saving Techniques
Chapter Eight – Overcoming Procrastination
Chapter Nine – Keeping Up
Chapter Ten – Saving Time With Others
Chapter Eleven – Time Management for Salespeople
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Chapter Twelve – The Philosophy of Time Management
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Introduction
Getting More Done Faster
“Success is focusing the full power of all you are on what you have a burning desire to achieve.” (Wilferd A. Peterson) Thank you for reading this book. I know how busy you are, and even reading a book on Time Management is something that you seldom have the time to do. I promise you that in the pages ahead you will learn more practical and immediately usable ideas, methods, strategies and techniques for getting more done faster than you ever have before. When you learn and apply these powerful, practical techniques, you will dramatically improve the quality of your life in every area.
Throughout the ages, the greatest minds of all time have dedicated themselves to answering the question “How shall we live in order to be happy?” Sigmund Freud, the father of modern psychology, wrote that the primary motivation of human beings is the “pleasure principle,” the constant striving toward the things give us pleasure and that make us feel good about ourselves and out lives.
In the final analysis, we all want to be happy. We spend most of our lives searching for the combination of lifestyle ingredients, relationships, work, money, sports, hobbies and other activities that will give us the deep down feeling of happiness and well being we seek. This book on Time 5
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management is designed to give you hundreds of valuable ideas you can use immediately to organize your life and activities, so that you can get more of the things that you want and need to achieve your own happiness.
Time Management Is a Tool
Time management can be viewed as a tool with which you can build a great life, marked by high achievement and a tremendous feeling of satisfaction and accomplishment. Time management can be looked upon as a vehicle that can carry you from wherever you are to wherever you want to go. Time management can be seen as a set of personal disciplines that, once mastered, will enable you to be, have and do anything you want or need to achieve whatever successes in life give you the greatest pleasure and happiness.
This book is the result of more than 20 years of research and teaching in the area of personal effectiveness, and is based on my 25 years of experience in sales, marketing, management and consulting in more than 500 corporations.
The Common Denominator of Success
The more I studied success and successful people, the more obvious it became to me that they all had one thing in common. They all placed a very high value on their time, and they continually worked at becoming better organized and more efficient.
I eventually came to the conclusion that no success is possible without excellent time management skills. You cannot even imagine a happy, 6
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fulfilled person whose life is in a state of disorganization and disarray. The best discovery I made was that, when you develop the disciplines of time management, you simultaneously develop many of the other habits that lead to high achievement, wealth and success in every part of your life.
The starting point of developing good time management skills is for you to realize that time management is really life management. It is the way you take care of your most precious gift. As Benjamin Franklin once said , “Do you love life? Then do not squander time, for that’s the stuff that life is made of.”
As you learn to master your time, you simultaneously master your life and take complete control over your future.
A Handbook for High Performance
This book is designed to give you every tool that you will ever need to become excellent in time management in your career and personal life. As you read, think about how you could apply these ideas immediately.
Underline key points and make notes. Implement the action exercises at the end of each chapter. Be prepared to read and review this book more than once if you wish to memorize and internalize these ideas permanently.
Spaced repetition is essential to learning.
Once you master these skills, you will be set up for a lifetime of increased personal efficiency, and high achievement. You will become a new person, 7
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with a new way of looking at life. You will get more done in less time than you ever thought possible. You will take complete control over your life.
“When every physical and mental resource is focused, one’s power to solve a problem multiplies tremendously.” (Norman Vincent Peale) Chapter One
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“The mind is the limit. As long as the mind can envision the fact that you can do something, you can do it – as long as you believe 100 percent.”
(Arnold Schwarzenegger)
The Law of Correspondence says that your outer life tends to be a mirror image of your inner life. Everywhere you look, there you are. Everywhere you look, you see yourself reflected back. You do not see the world as it is, but as you are – inside. If you want to change what is going on in the world around you – your relationships, results and rewards – you have to change 8
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what is going on in the world inside you. Fortunately, this is the only part of your life over which you have complete control.
The Starting Point of Success
The starting point of becoming excellent in time management is desire.
Almost everyone feels that their time management skills could be vastly better than they are. People resolve, over and over again, to get serious about time management by focusing, setting better priorities and overcoming procrastination. They intend to get serious about time management sometime, but unfortunately, “the road to hell is paved with good intentions.”
The key to motivation is “motive.” For you to develop sufficient desire to develop Time Power, you must be intensely motivated by the benefits you feel you will enjoy. You must want the results badly enough to overcome the natural inertia that keeps you doing things the same old way. Here are four good reasons for practicing what you learn in this book.
1. Gain Two Extra Hours Each Day
You will gain at least two additional productive hours per day by practicing what you learn in this book. Just think! What could you do or accomplish if you had the gift of two extra working hours each day. What projects could you start and complete? What books could you write and publish? What subjects could you learn and master? What could you accomplish with two 9
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extra hours that you were able to focus and concentrate on completing high-value tasks?
Two extra hours per day, multiplied by five days per week, equals ten extra hours per week. Ten extra hours per week multiplied by 50 weeks per year would give you 500 extra productive hours each year. 500 hours translates into more than twelve 40-hour weeks, or the equivalent of three extra months of productive working time each year.
By gaining two productive hours each day, you could transform your personal and working life. You could achieve all your goals, double your income over the next two to three years, and eventually achieve financial independence, if not become rich.
2. Improve Your Productivity and Performance
Your productivity, performance and income will increase by at least 25%
over the next year. Two extra hours, in addition to the eight hours that you work each day, is equal to a 25% increase.
What you are earning today is what you are being paid today as a result of what you are producing today. If you increase your productivity by 25% or more, you must eventually earn and be paid 25% more. And if your current boss won’t pay you for improved performance, some other boss will come along and gladly give you more money for your ability to produce greater results.
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3. Increase Your Sense of Control
You will have more energy and less stress as you practice these ideas. You will have a greater sense of control over your work and your personal life.
You will feel like the master of your own destiny, and a power in your own life. You will feel more positive and powerful in every part of your life.
Over the years, psychologists have done extensive research in the area of what is called “Locus of Control.” They have discovered that you feel positive about yourself and your life to the degree to which you feel in charge of your life; you have an “internal” locus of control. With an internal locus of control, you feel that your life is in your own hands, You make your own decisions and you are responsible for your own actions and outcomes.