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The Full Forward Coaching Survival Kit™ Series.

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Our Full Forward Coaching Survival Kits™ are easy to read, easy to put

into practice, and they offer valuable strategies that serve as little oases

(yup, that’s the plural…we looked it up) in your VUCA world, not only

helping you survive but also to thrive, grow, and enjoy the adventure.

The kits are topical and address key areas of executive function. So,

whether you are a C-suite occupant with ADHD or an entrepreneur

or business leader challenged with overwhelm and multi-tasking

distractions, these little e-books are here to help.

If you’d like to go deeper into surviving and thriving through Full Forward coaching,

consulting, and learning, visit our website at www.fullforwardcoaching.com or call and set

up a time to talk directly with the creator of these systems. You can reach us at 800-723-

0294. And while you’re on our website, please drop us a note and share how you’ve put this

eBook to work for you and what other challenges and frustrations you’re facing.

At the end of this Kit, you’ll find a special note to and tips for people challenged with

ADHD (Attention Deficit Hypertensive Disorder), or ADT (Attention Deficit Trait). Reading

and putting those tips into practice will help you ensure the success of this program.

Until we talk, thank you for taking a large step toward not only surviving but also thriving

in your business and your career. Thank you for making the commitment to be part of this

Forwardly Mobile™ community.

Jim Grossman, Director

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INTRODUCTIONThe Executive Time Machine

“For after the battle comes quiet.”

FROM THE TIME MACHINE BY H.G. WELLS

Wrestling with time is a losing battle that

every executive knows well. As Einstein

observed, “The only reason for time is so that

everything doesn’t happen at once.” But it

can still feel like it. Even though everything

isn’t actually happening at once, there are

often too many people, devices, and tasks

competing for attention if not immediately,

within the next five minutes.

But any executive can turn time around and make it an ally. In fact, using time intentionally

is one of the more powerful and more easily mastered tools available to every leader.

But often, in a work environment filled with VUCA (volatility, uncertainty, complexity, and

ambiguity), high-speed change, and ever-expanding technological challenges, it’s easy

for time to get away from us. Bringing time back into our control is the idea behind The

Executive Time Machine.


The Executive Time Machine isn’t a machine in the traditional sense, but rather it’s a

mechanized and structured way to manage and use time in the most efficient, effective,

and productive way possible. Unlike other time management systems, The Executive Time

Machine isn’t about helping you find ways to work more, it’s about helping you find options

to work better.

The Executive Time Machine is a four-step process that will make time serve you instead

of the other way around.

THE FOUR STEPS TO THE EXECUTIVE TIME MACHINE PROCESS ARE:

Find your why

Spend quality time with time

Open Your Eyes

Choose and Control

Bonus step: Repeat 1-4 regularly and with dogged persistence.

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To make this kit work for you, be sure to do everything necessary to fully engage with the

process and perform each exercise honestly and completely. Only by doing that will you

develop mastery over your time and the process you need to increase the positive impact

you make on your organization, your career, and your life.


FIND YOUR WHYPART 1:


PART I:

FIND YOUR WHY

“You cannot conquer what you are not committed to.”

T.D. JAKES

If you’re like most of the people who find

their way to this kit, you’re going to read (or

as least skim) through the entire program

before starting it. I’m hoping you’ve done

that and have arrived back here, ready to dig

in and thrive with the program. As you read

through this book for the first time, there’s

no doubt that at some point you will wonder

whether the effort is going to be worth it. You

will ponder whether getting control of your

time is worth the commitment, discipline,

and frankly, the imposition of a process that

seems like it will make your day even more

complicated. I also suspect that, in your

mind, all the reasons for not putting in the

effort were making a lot more noise than the

little voice telling you how important it is that

you move forward with the program.


I don’t want to leave your success in the hands of little voices, and you shouldn’t either.

So, the first step in The Executive Time Machine is for you to Find Your “Why.” You have

to know why you’re stepping into this program and you have to completely buy into that

why. In order for that to happen, your “Why” has to carry more weight than all the excuses

your brain will invent for you not to do the program. Despite the fact that people make

decisions for emotional reasons, we’re going to take a logical and reasoned approach

So, to help you answer that question, to help you find your very personal and unique “Why,”

we’ve created a short, two-step exercise to get you started and keep you on the path.

After you’ve completed it, you will know exactly what your “Why” is and what that “Why” is

worth.

DO THIS FIND YOUR “WHY” EXERCISE NOW:

Step 1 Begin by writing down all your frustrations with time management right now

and the cost if those frustrations continue. Include all the ways your current

time management practice is having a negative impact on your job, your

team, and your life. Put a real-world value (e.g. loss of money, resources, focus)

on each one:

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Step 2 Now write down what it will mean to you when your time management

frustrations evaporate. What benefits will that bring to your organization, to

your team, to your career, and to your life? How will ending those frustrations

make you more effective, more in control, and more valuable? Write down each

of those benefits. Assign a real value (e.g. profit, quality of life increase, self-

esteem or status gained) to each one.

Now, compare the two lists you’ve made, side by side. Circle the three most important

on each list. Go for a walk, sit in a quiet room, or just shut your office door, turn off your

electronic notifications and let the impact of your lists and their values settle in. After

you’ve reflected for 10, 30, or more minutes, rate yourself on how important it is for you to

make this change in time management, and rate yourself on how committed you are to

making this change.

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Use a 1-10 scale with 10 being completely committed and 1 being not committed at all.

Before moving forward with the program, make sure your commitment level is at a 7 or

higher.

If your commitment level is below a 7, live with your time management the way it is now,

but refer back to your negative impact and positive impact lists until they impact you

enough to raise your commitment level to 7 or higher.

Remember, all walls become doors, but the doors appear at different times and through

different methods for each of us.


SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH TIME

PART 2:


PART II:

SPEND QUALITY TIME WITH TIME

“We must run as fast as we can, just to stay in place. And if you wish to go anywhere you must

run twice as fast.”

FROM ALICE IN WONDERLAND BY LEWIS CARROLL

Most executives facing over-rush and

overwhelm insist that they are simply too

busy. Too busy to examine where and how

they spend their time, too busy to engage

their teams in ways that are actually

meaningful, too busy to strategize, take

care of themselves, learn new things to help

them grow as leaders, or recharge. But these

executives confuse “busy” with “effective” in

the same way as they sometimes confuse

job title with leadership.

Being busy does not mean you are being

strategic, impactful, or even efficiently

effective with your time.


Drill down and you’ll discover that “too busy” often means either too disorganized or too

undisciplined to address what is really important without succumbing to distractions,

running from fire to fire, and consistently scrambling off into directions that take you far

afield from where your focus should be.

If you don’t make time to manage your time, everything eventually suffers. Your team

becomes disconnected, your career becomes a series of tasks, and your life gets stuck in

minutia.

So, like every good plan, The Executive Time Machine requires knowing where you are right

now. Use the log in the pages that follow to log your time for the next two weeks. Log all of

your time, not just meetings, not just business, not just time that you think is important.

Leave nothing out and that includes time that you wasted rather than spent or invested.

I know your first reaction to the idea of logging all your time is not a back flip or a fist

pumping, “Yesss!” That’s okay, you don’t have to be excited at this point, only committed

to making just one choice. And it’s your first choice in this process that is the most

important. It’s the choice not to react but to respond.

Thinking about which fire to put out next?

Get the idea? The more complete and accurate your log, the better ally your time will

become.

Eating, exercising, daydreaming

Traveling to or from work?

Forgot what you’ve being doing the last ten minutes?

Logging your time?

LOG IT

LOG IT

LOG IT

LOG IT

LOG IT


You can continue to manage (or not manage)

your time the way you have been and you

will continue to have the same results,

frustrations and feelings of overwhelm that

you have right now, or you can choose to

respond and commit to the process and to

change for the better. It’s your choice, your

time, your career, and your life. But those who

have chosen to respond by committing to

this program are experiencing the benefits

every day, in every part of their work and in

every corner of their lives.

Slogging through the task of actually and

accurately logging your time for a couple of

weeks will give you the data you need to set

a firm foundation upon which to build your

time management success. Only when you

are aware of how you’ve spent the minutes

of your day, do you gain the power to rework,

adjust, eliminate, delegate, or even expand

where and how you invest your time.

Again, the first step to gain better use of your time is gaining the awareness that only

comes from knowing how you’re spending your time now. How you spend your time will tell

you exactly what you value, regardless of what you think is important.

For the next two weeks, complete the time logs you’ll find on the pages that follow. Be sure

to log all of your time. Again, log all your time. Enter every activity with enough information

so that you’ll be able to remember what you did and why you did it. The why can include

the precipitating event that sent you off on that task. You’ll need all that information when

you work on the second part of this kit.


Once again, time control begins with full and accurate awareness of how you’re spending

your time now. This gives you the power to make decisions rather than having time

decisions made for you by circumstance or in-the-moment demands.

Right now, print out enough time log sheets for the next two weeks, and start logging your

time completely and accurately. You can do this and the reasons you will do this are all

spelled out in the benefit list you created at the beginning of this process.


EXECUTIVE TIME MACHINE PART II SPENDING QUALITY TIME WITH TIME The first step to gain better use of your time is Awareness, knowing how you’re spending your time now. How you spend your time points to what you value as important. For the next two weeks, complete this time study. Be sure to log all of your time. Log your activities with enough information that you’ll be able to review them during Part II, highlight your time trends, and accuratley identify your time categories. More about that later. For now, print out enough Part I time log sheets for the next two weeks, and start an accurate log of your time.

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OPEN YOUR EYESPART 3:


PART III:

OPEN YOUR EYES

“The unexamined life is not worth living.”

SOCRATES

“Know yourself” is as valuable advice today

as when it was first chiseled into stone at

Delphi. Awareness is the key to knowledge

and the wisdom that comes from being

able to apply it. Awareness begins with self-

knowledge and so that is the next step to

The Executive Time Machine: gathering the

time data you logged in Part I and then

stepping back, taking a deep breath, and

turning that data into metrics you can use to

improve your time management skills.

In this step you’re going to review and

categorize the time you’ve spent. Note your

time in meetings and writing memos. Time

spent reading and sending emails. Time

spent exercising. Time spent strategizing

and time spent planning (they are different).

Time spent on work, finances, personal

development, recharging.


The idea here is to look at your time with an eye toward overview so that you can identify

the general traits and trends in how you invested your weeks.

The benefit here is twofold: First, by seeing where you’ve spent your time, you’ll

immediately realize whether the percentage of time you spent on work, relationships, and

community, for example, are aligned with your values. Second, you’ll recognize your “true”

priorities as opposed to the priorities you espouse and the mission that’s printed on the

back of your business card.

For example, if you say exercise is a priority but you actually spend more time in the drive

through at Mr. DoughNut than in the gym, it’s time to either reorder your priorities or adjust

your schedule. If you present yourself as an “idea” person but spend more time analyzing

time sheets than concepts, it might also be time to re-assess priorities or career path.

The thing about time is, time doesn’t lie and your true priorities and values will be all

irrefutably spelled out right there in your time log. The good news is, once you become

aware of how you’re spending your time, you also have the power to choose how you spend

your time.

So, go back right now and address each entry in your time log. As you do, you will also

make a judgment call as to the value of each line item by determining whether the time

you spent had a High, Neutral, or Low/No value to your career, organization, relationship,

community, or to some other specific aspect of your life. As an example, you could label

your time like this:

When you make those labels, use a key letter you’ll remember, something like “HV” or “+”

for high value, an “NV” or “/“ for neutral value, and an “LV” or “NV” or “—“ for low or no value.

Label each entry either: HIGH VALUE / NEUTRAL VALUE / LOW OR NO VALUE.


After you’ve made that value judgment, also note these important things for each one of

your time log entries:

Did the activity actually have to be done? If so, did it have to be done at the

specific time you did it?

Was there someone else who could have done the activity? If so, who. Also, what

would you have to do to involve them so you won’t spend time doing the same

thing in the future? What’s needed (for example, training, permission, a meeting)

to successfully hand over that task to the other person?

Did the task you did have to be done as completely or with as much perfection

as you did it? People who are ADHD or ADT impacted are notorious for also

being perfectionists, holding themselves and their work to extremely high

standards even when those standards aren’t warranted. An example would be

taking the time and resources to completely flesh out all details of 10 strategies

to achieve a given outcome when actually the first two or three tactics would

have achieved the desired results—when the job is done, walk away.

What ideas come to you that would have made the task just as doable in less

time or would have made more efficient and effective use of your time?

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CHOOSE AND CONTROLPART 4:


PART IV:

CHOOSE AND CONTROL

“We are responsible for our choices, and we have to accept the consequences.”

ELISABETH KUBLER-ROSS

This step is the part where you really begin to

enjoy the fruits of all the work and dedication

you’ve put in so far. This is where time ceases

to be your adversary and begins to be your

ally, where time starts to work for you.

The information you’ve gleaned from the

first three parts of our program will give you

the knowledge and power to shape your day,

your week, and your life. You now know how

and where you invest your time. You also are

finally aware of how your time investments

align with the values and priorities of your

day.

This is the place you get to fine-tune your

time allocations as you consider what

specific areas you want to take center stage

in your life.


Here, you begin by taking a look at what percentage of your overall time is being spent

contributing to each area of importance. Typical areas might include work, finances, family,

physical fitness, mental development, spiritual development, and community service or

give back.

This is the place to align your use of time with your most important priorities. With the

control you now have over your time, you can decide, for example, how much of your “work”

time is going to be spent in identifying or advancing your most important initiatives

and strategies; how much of your work time is going to be spent on coaching and team

development.

You also now have the information you need to evaluate tasks as they arise and then

determine if they are best addressed now, later, or at all. If they are best done by you or

delegated. You can decide how many hours you need each day, or how many days you need

each week or each month to recharge, refocus, reenergize, and retreat into the kind of self

reflection activities that spawn new growth.

What’s important to you is now expressed in your actions, not only in your words. If you’re

walking your talk at all times, that’s great. If there are gaps or lapses, you now have the

means to recognized that and you have the opportunity to bring what you say and think

is important to you in full alignment with the quantity and quality of time you put into

advancing your priorities, your organization, and your relationships. You are no longer just

surviving you are thriving as master of your time.

FOOD FOR THOUGHT EXERCISE

We’re hoping this book and this system are already paying benefits to you that far exceed

the time you’ve invested. If that’s true, we’d appreciate you spending a little time in

thinking about those benefits and then letting us know.

Send us and email and let us celebrate your successes right along with you.


What specific benefits has the material in this program delivered to you?

In what ways have you used this material to increase your levels of

success and impact?

What ideas do you have for building on the effectiveness of this

program? How could we make the program better serve your needs?

We are committed to providing continuous learning opportunities to you as well as

everyone who shares the Forwardly Mobile perspective.

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SPECIAL NOTES TO THOSE CHALLENGED WITH ADHD AND ADT:

Attention Deficit Hypertensive Disorder and Attention Deficit Trait can bring special

challenges to your mission of gaining time control. You might start off the first day of your

week with the best of intentions.

In fact, there’s no doubt that is how you begin every week. You start off with a complete

and detailed plan for the day, but by the time the day ends, and certainly by the time the

week is over, you’ve become less disciplined in scheduling your time and less focused on

analyzing that time, and just as lost as you were when you started the process. When that

happens, you’ll be tempted to become discouraged as a result of distractions, pressures,

and “crisis” having derailed your efforts even though you started with all the best

intentions.

If you discover ideas and details that you think would make the program even more

effective, we’d appreciate hearing those, too. By reading and using this material, you

have become part of our Forwardly Mobile community. Contributing to the growth and

development of fellow community members is not only appreciated but vital as our

programs continue to grow and develop.


Don’t let that happen. I know that’s easy to say and difficulty to do. But, it becomes

entirely possible to make this program work for you if you start and end each day with

the planning process. And that begins with instilling the habit of using your planner as

faithfully and as often as you do your cell phone.

You must understand that inertia, habit, and distractions are powerful and demanding

adversaries for everyone, and especially for those challenged by ADHD and ADT. The

simple fact is, if you do not take control of your time, those adversaries will. In fact, you

wouldn’t be reading this if they hadn’t already gained at least some discomforting control

over your time. Wrestling control of your time away from these forces and keeping it where

you want it to be will require constant and focused intention.

Remember that ADHD and ADT do not mean that you don’t know “what” or how.” The

challenge comes in starting a plan, staying focused on it, and following through to

completing. Getting from Point A to Point C without being pulled off course and wandering

down Rabbit Hole B.

HERE ARE 7 TIPS TO HELP YOU KEEP ON TRACK.

1/ SELECT A DAILY PLANNER. Whether electronic or paper, the choice is yours. The key is to select

a planner that “feels right.” One that you will actually use every hour

of every day of every week and that allows plenty of room for you to

plan and make notes. This planner will be as much a tool of daily living,

as are your toothbrush, alarm, keys, wallet, phone, and computer. Get

comfortable with that.


2/ ESTABLISH BEGIN AND END TIMES FOR EVERY ENTRY.

3/ ENTER ALL YOUR ACTIVITIES.

When using whatever planner you choose, do not log in a “begin” time

without also logging in an “end” time. If your task will take more than

a day, plug in the date and time you will complete it. Also log in the

steps along the way. For example, if the task is to do a performance

evaluation on a direct report, log in the beginning day and time. Next,

log in when you will gather the documents and metrics you will need

on the day and at the time you will gather them (for example, job

description, agreed upon performance standards, actual performance

results, comparison of standards to results, points to be addressed

during appraisal, etc.). Also log in the times and the days you will do

these things. Finally, set the date for the appraisal as well as any follow

up tasks that will need to be done.

The idea here is to cover every step. You don’t just eat an elephant by

taking one bite at a time. You eat an elephant by taking that one bite,

chewing, swallowing, and breathing before taking the next bit. Bites

without the other steps always lead to choking.

Write appointments and meetings into your planner complete with

“start” and “stop” times. Include time for travel, finding files and

notepads. Always allow more time than you think the appointment or

meeting will take. They will pretty much always take more time than

you plan. Also enter break times, times you will check email and voice

messages, self-care times, everything. Remember the adage, “garbage

in, garbage out” and know that the benefit you get from your planner is

only as good as the information you put in.


4/ PLAN REFOCUS OR RECHARGE TIMES BETWEEN EACH TASK.

5/ PRE-PLAN AND REVIEW EVERY DAY.

This is valuable time when you will make sure you’ve completed your

scheduled task and appreciate what you’ve done before launching

yourself into the next task. This can be as simple as you walking with

intention and deep breathing to the office water cooler, or it could be

as involved as using a colored highlighter to mark that your task is

complete and writing down what that completion will mean to your

day or career. Planning these short but vital breaks into your time is

essential to keep you focused and energized throughout the day. So

don’t skip this step.

Your planner is a tool and, like any tool, only as good as the attention

you give it. Take care of your tools and they will take care of you. So,

plan to spend at least ten minutes at the beginning of each day (prior

to the start of your “official” work time) and another ten minutes at the

end of your day. At the end of your day, include time to notice what

worked and what didn’t, where your time estimates were accurate

and where they were not, where your day went as planned and when

it went off the rails. When you used your time for something not on

your schedule or for something different than what you had scheduled,

analyze it. What happened? What can you learn? What triggered the

detour? How might you anticipate and respond to similar events in the

future. Take time also to identify your three most important “wins” and

how these might be parlayed into additional wins in the days to come.


6/ REVIEW EVERY WEEK AND EVERY MONTH.

7/ IDENTIFY YOUR AREAS OF GREATEST CHALLENGE.

At the end of each week--and also at the end of each month, quarter,

and year--review your planner in the same way you do your daily but

also with a bird’s eye view of your overall week. Identify the times you

stayed on task, the tasks you completed on time, and the times you

drifted from your plan. Do the metrics. What percent of the time you

spent is the same as the time you planned? How might you increase

this percentage in the week and month to come? How accurate were

your time estimates? Do you need to expand or change the time you

allow for tasks? Remember, it is essential that you use this analysis of

your week to identify positive accomplishments and how to get more

of them. This is not an exercise in self-criticism. This is a practice of

forwardly mobile feedback in which you will identify information from

the past week and use it to move forward positively and with increased

efficacy in the weeks that follow.

Time management is just one of the executive function areas impacted

by ADHD and ADT. Authorities don’t always agree on the best way to

divide these executive functions, but here’s a way that we’ve found

especially powerful for self-assessment and growth:

How aware you are of yourself, your feelings, thoughts,

strengths, talents, challenges.

How well you are aware of and control your emotions—

including impulsive actions (example of questionable skills:

doing anything because it “seemed to be the thing to do

at the time”). Problems with relationships often show up

here.

Self-awareness:

Inhibition:

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How well you store, recall, and use stored information about

faces, shapes, images, songs, sounds, smells, tastes, and

feelings—anything that doesn’t have ‘self-talk’ associated

with it—like remember the time of an appointment.

How well you can remember past experiences, facts,

sequences and apply them to what you’re doing now.

Remembering the steps to a recipe or a math problem both

call for use of working memory.

The ability to use the other executive functions to become

aware of, name, and manage your emotions. How well you

are able to “pause” and respond rather than just reacting to

emotions.

This is your ability to motivate yourself to start a task, stay

focused, and complete that task.

How well and effectively you are able to use past

experiences and other information to create new solutions

and approaches to opportunities and problems.

Non-Verbal

Working

Memory:

Verbal Working

Memory:

Emotional Self-

Regulation

Self-

motivation:

Planning

and Problem

Solving:

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Use the ADHD/ ADT Executive Function Balance Wheel here to chart how satisfied you are

with your ability to use each of the executive functions.

For example, if you rank yourself as a “0” or not at all satisfied with your self-motivation,

draw a line near the center of the circle at the “0” mark. If you are, on the other hand,

completely satisfied with your self-motivation and rate your satisfaction level a “10,” your

line will be on the outer rim of the wheel.

After you’ve rated and charted each section, you’ll see which areas offer the greatest

challenges to your performance. These are areas you may want to specifically work on with

your coach.


The goal here is not necessarily to end up with all categories being rated 10. What’s important is that you’re aware of where you are in each category and that that you are

satisfied with the rating and your performance in each area. If you’re satisfied that’s great. If you’re not satisfied or want to improve in any or all areas, that would be a

great topic of conversation for you and your coach.

IMPORTANT NOTE:

Insructions: Rate yourself in each category on a scale of 0-10 depending on how satisfied you are with each area of performance. A “0” is at the wheel’s center and means this area is a major challenge. A “10” is at the outer rim and means you feel very successful in this

area. Then set goals, strategies, and build habits to support them. Work with your coach on increasing your satisfaction with each area. Finally, reassess monthly and remember, your

objective is satisfaction with each area and not perfection.

ADHD/ADT EXECUTIVE FUNCTION BALANCE WHEEL


special length of our EBooksA note about the

I was sitting in the doctor’s office, watching the clock and wondering if

my 9 am appointment would end up being at 9:30 or 10. I looked around

for something to do and ended up in a staring contest with the goldfish

in a nearby aquarium.

The goldfish won the stare-down and that got me thinking, and

eventually Googling, about attention spans. According to the Statistic

Brain Institute and other researchers, the average attention span in

humans is about 12 seconds. This trumps the attention span of goldfish

by a whopping 3 seconds. Today, I was either especially inattentive or I’d

encountered a clearly superior goldfish.

A little more research told me that people most productively focus on a learning task

for about 25-35 minutes. I also found that the average person reads between 200 and

250 words per minute. So, with a nod to those statistics, you’ll find that our eBooks run

in the neighborhood of 4,000 to 5,000 words. Enough to be read at one sitting with the

applications and exercises taking maybe and additional 30-45 minutes. These time spans

are completely workable as long as you are engaged and committed to the process.

If you find your mind wandering or losing focus before that time, just take it one section at

a time, one day at a time. Attention spans differ. I get that. After all, I lost a staring contest

to a goldfish.

Anyway, my hope is that you will persist. That you will commit to the program, the system,

and to doing the work. It will pay off for you, your career, your team, and your life as it has

for countless others.


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