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DOUBLING YOURPRODUCTIVITY
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IME MANAGEMENT FOR RESULTS
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OUBLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY
TABLE OF CONTENTS
CHAPTER ONE
ime and Personal Empowerment ..................................................................................1
CHAPTER TWO
ersonal Strategic Planning ............................................................................................4
Setting Your Priorities .....................................................................................................
ART FOUR
ala cing Work and Family .........................................................................................10
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CHAPTER ONE
TIME AND PERSONAL EMPOWERMENT
Dost thou love life, then do not squander time,for thats the stuff life is made of.
Benjamin Franklin
1. Time is your most precious RESOURCE .
a. Time is perishable; it cannot be SAVED .
b. Time is indispensable; all WORK requires it.
c. Time is irreplaceable; nothing ELSE will do.
d. Time is essential for ACHIEVEMENT .
2. Time management is really PERSONAL management,
LIFE management.
3. Time management is a SKILL that can be learned.
4. Time management requires SELF-DISCIPLINE ,
self-mastery, self-control, more than anything else.
5. The most important ingredient in a Positive Mental Attitude is a
SENSE OF CONTROL
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. Time management enables you to control the SEQUENCE
OF EVENTS .
7. Your life, your INCOME and your REWARDS
re determined by the way you USE your time.
8. The biggest problem of working people today is TIME
POVERTY .
9. The fact is that you haveALL THE TIME
there is no more and no less.
10. Develop a PSYCHOLOGY of time management.
a. Affirm: I AM EFFICIENT and
WELL ORGANIZED .
b. Visualize: SEE YOURSELF
c. Act the part: Assume the role, ACT AS IF .
11. Take the LONG view; develop long-time
PERSPECTIVE .
12. Take the SHORT view; allocate your time in
SMALL amounts.
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13. The VALUE of anything can be determined by
how much of your TIME/LIFE youre willing to
trade for it.
14. PRACTICE makes PERFECT
; work on time management every minute of every day.
15. Time management is your key to HAPPINESS and
SUCCESS in life.
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CHAPTER TWO
PERSONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING
Whenever you find something getting done,ou find a monomaniac with a mission.
Peter Drucker
1. The worst use of time is TO DO very well what
NEED NOT be done at all. (B. Tregoe).
2. Doing what you really ENJOY is the key to peak
PERFORMANCE .
3. Happiness comes then you BELIEVE in what youre doing,
KNOW what youre doing and LOVE
what youre doing.
4. ZERO-BASED thinking is a key planning skill.
5. Begin with your VALUES ; list the five things most
IMPORTANT to you:
. ____________________________________________________________
. ____________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________
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4. ____________________________________________________________
5. ____________________________________________________________
. Quick List Method:
1. ____________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________
7. What would you DO , how would you spend your
TIME if you learned that you only had SIX
MONTHS to live?
1. ____________________________________________________________
2. ____________________________________________________________
3. ____________________________________________________________
4. ____________________________________________________________
5. ____________________________________________________________
. You need three types of goals for a balanced life:
1. Family and personal GOALS WHY ?
2. Career and financial GOALS WHAT ?
3. Personal improvement GOALS : how?
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. CLARITY is central to personal effectiveness:
What OUTCOMES do you really want?
What is the PRICE you will have to pay to get it?
0. Time management is a VEHICLE to take you from wherever
YOU ARE to wherever you WANT
TO GO .
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SETTING YOUR PRIORITIES
Before you do anything, you have to do something else first.Murphys Law #3
. Every action (or inaction) involves a CHOICE between
hat is MORE important and what is LESS important.
. Law of the EXCLUDED alternative doing one thing
eans NOT doing something else.
. Setting priorities means setting POSTERIORITIES as well.
. Use the 80/20 RULE on everything.
. Separate the urgent from the important.
ey determinant? Long-term potential CONSEQUENCES .
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. Use the ABCDE Method:
A = MUST do: SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES
B = SHOULD do: MILD CONSEQUENCES
C = NICE TO do: NO CONSEQUENCES
= DELEGATE EVERYTHING
E = ELIMINATE :
Use with goals, activities, daily lists.
7. Law of Forced EFFICIENCY There is always enough time
to do the most IMPORTANT things.
a. What are your highest VALUE-ADDED activities?
b. What are your KEY RESULT AREAS ?
c. Why are you on the PAYROLL ?
d. What can you, and only you, do, which if done well, will make a
REAL DIFFERENCE
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. Your REWARDS will be determined by your
RESULTS
What RESULTS are expected of you?
. Action without THINKING is the cause
of every failure. (Alex MacKenzie)
0. Key question in time management: What is the MOST
VALUABLE USE of my time right now?
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CHAPTER FOUR
ALANCING WORK AND FAMILY
No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.
Benjamin Disraeli
1. Your HAPPINESS should be your chief aim in life.
2. Fully 85% f your happiness comes from RELATIONSHIPS
with others: POINTS OF INTENSITY .
3. MODERATION in all things you need balance between
your WORK and FAMILY to be happy.
4. A feeling of STRESS , dissatisfaction arises when your activities
nd goals are not CONGRUENT with your values.
5. Begin with your VALUES ; what is really
IMPORTANT to you?
6. Describe your ideal LIFE-STYLE ; what ingredients
would make you most happy?
7. To do MORE of one thing, you must do LESS
of others.
What should you be doing MORE OF LESS OF ?
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. Treat your time like MONEY ; how can you best
SPEND it to achieve maximum satisfaction?
. Set PEACE OF MIND as your highest goal, and
organize your time/life around it.
0. Key to balance: Do just TWO things:
WORK nd FAMILY .
1. WORK
all the time youWORK
;put more of YOURSELF into the time.
2. When youre with your FAMILY , be there 100%
of the time.
3. Limit/restrict television, newspapers, outside activities.
Remember the Law of the EXCLUDED Alternative.
4. Spend unbroken CHUNKS OF TIME with the most
important people in your life.
5. Its QUANTITY of time at home, QUALITY
of time at work that counts.
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