LIMIT MEETING ATTENDANCE

LIMIT MEETING ATTENDANCE

The more attendees you invite to meetings, the longer the meetings last.

ONE THING AT A TIME

Dallen Peterson, founder of Merry Maids and author of Rags, Riches, & Real Success, believes that multitasking simply increases stress and impairs relationships.

TIMELY QUOTE

"Time management isn't about maximizing the number of items you can check off in a day or a lifetime. It's about living fully, productively, joyfully - by your own definition of those terms."
-Lesley Bolton, author of Fastread Time Management
 

DELEGATE

Enlist the aid of others to get the important things done. As Andrew Carnegie once said, "The secret of success lies not in doing your own work but in recognizing the right person to do it."

ORGANIZE YOUR DESK

Keep your desk clear except for the things you use on a daily basis such as stapler and paperclips. Items you use less frequently such as stamps, scissors and ruler should be readily accessible in a drawer.

KEEPING MEETINGS BRIEF

Jeff Davidson, in his book The 60 Second Organizer, suggests that participants stand when they speak. He claims this tends to limit the time they speak since most people prefer to stay seated.

PAPERWORK IS STILL INCREASING

PAPERWORK IS STILL INCREASING

The volume of office paper and commercial printing increased 245 percent between 1960 and 1994, according to an article posted at
http://www.organizetips.com/office2.htm

DON'T HANG ON TO READING MATERIAL

Don Aslett & Carol Cartaino, in their book, Get Organized, Get Published, suggest that if you have not read or even touched a saved article in two months, you should get rid of it.

INVESTING TIME

Tracy Lyn Moland's book, Mom Management, contains a sobering question: "What do you think the kids will remember more - our nights of playing games or a clean house?"

NOT TOO EARLY

Arrive at meetings a few minutes early, but not early enough to get involved in time-consuming conversations of little value.

TIMELY QUOTE

A bend in the road is not the end of the road - unless you fail to make the turn. (Source unknown)

 

NEW YEARS RESOLUTION

Almost 25 percent of those people making New Years resolutions lose their momentum after one week, according to Mike Sion, writing in Woman's Day magazine (Save Time Next Year, 1/7/97)

BE SELECTIVE WHEN CHOOSING WHAT TO DO

If someone scattered $11,100 dollars throughout a park, consisting of an equal number of bills of $1, $10, and $100 denominations, and told you to keep whatever you could gather in one minute, which ones would you go after? You could grab a lot more bills if you simply grabbed whatever you encountered first. And no doubt, those $1 bills would add up. But I dare say if you ignored the small ones and went after all those more valuable $100 bills, you would be a lot richer. Life provides more than one minute, but the principle is the same. There isn't time for everything, so go after those more valuable projects and activities.

MULTI-TASKING SAVES TIME, NOT LIVES

MULTI-TASKING SAVES TIME, NOT LIVES

Talking on a cell phone while driving makes you four times as likely to get into an accident and 11 times as likely to be killed while driving. (Source: New England Journal of Medicine cited in The 60-Second Organizer by Jeff Davidson)

THE VANISHING LUNCH HOUR

An English survey showed that the lunch hour has decreased to 36 minutes, with 14 percent of workers, not taking lunch at all. Give me a break! (preferably an hour) (Source: The Change Agents by Liz Nickles, published in 2001 by St. Martin's Press)

TIMELY QUOTE

If you think getting organized is time consuming, try disorganization.
- Jeff Davidson

 

TIME vs. MONEY

According to a 1999 Wall Street Journal Survey, 40 percent of Americans claimed that lack of time was a bigger problem than lack of money. (Source: The Change Agents by Liz Nickles, 2001, St. Martin's Press)

ARE MEETINGS BECOMING COOL?

Author Jeff Davidson suggests your choose a cool room over a warm one if possible since it will keep participants fresh and alert.

ARE YOU CONSUMED BY WORK?

A study conducted by American Online in 2000 revealed that 47 percent of it's subscribers took their laptops on vacation, and 26 percent continued to check their e-mail everyday - Source: The Power of Full Engagement by Jim Loehr & Tony Schwartz.)

DON'T HAVE ENOUGH TIME FOR SOMETHING?

There's no such thing as "not having enough time." It's just that you would rather spend the time on other things. When you want something badly enough, there will time for it.

TIMELY QUOTE

While men talk of killing time, slowly time kills men.

MAINTAINING FOCUS

To become more focused, plan your day the night before, start the day with top priority projects, and use ten minute breaks throughout the day to refresh and refocus.

WHAT ARE YOUR PRIORITIES

List your top three priorities and make sure you're spending adequate time on them. In a survey (reported in the book Fastread Time Management by Lesley Bolton) the top priorities for Americans were family life, spiritual life and health - followed by financial situation and job.

TAKE REGULAR BREAKS

The brain represents just 2 percent of the body's weight but requires almost 25 percent of it's oxygen (The Power of Full Engagement, by Jim Loehr and Tony Schwartz) Insufficient time for rejuvenation could results in poor decisions, lower creativity and more mistakes.

BALANCE IS THE KEY

Michael Gebb, author of How to Think Like Leonardo daVinci, asked the question "Where are you when you get your best ideas?" The answer is seldom "At work." It's usually while walking, taking a shower, listening to music or some other non-work related activity. Making work your whole life is detrimental to your work.

 

LUNCHEON MEETINGS

If you're having a business lunch, have the other party meet you at the office, not the restaurant. Then you can get productive work done if they're late.

INFORMATION EXPLOSION

According to University Microfilms, we're creating one billion pages of information every day in the U.S. alone. (Source: No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs by Dan Kennedy, Entrepreneur Media, 2004)

MOTIVATION

"Motivation is like love and happiness. it's a by-product. When
you've actively engaged in doing something, the motivation to
keep on doing it sneaks up and zaps you when you least expect it."
John Bruner


"Motivation is everything. You can do the work of two people, but
you can't be two people. Instead, you have to inspire the next guy
down the line and get him to inspire his people."
Lee Iacocca


"Motivation is like nutrition. It must be taken daily and in healthy
doses to keep it going."
Norman Vincent Peale, from "the Power of Positive Thinking"


"The motivation for all personal behavior is to produce a sense
of 'FEEL GOOD,' a sense of inner peace and well being."
Sidney Madwed


"Ability is what you're capable of doing. Motivation determines what
you do. Attitude determines how well you do it."
Lou Holtz


"The only lifelong, reliable motivations are those that come from
within, and one of the strongest of those is the joy and pride that
grow from knowing that you've just done something as well as you can
do it."
Lloyd Dobens and Clare Crawford-Mason, "Thinking About Quality"


"Envy can be a positive motivator. Let it inspire you to work harder
for what you want."

Ph.D IN SUCCESS

Do You Have a Ph.D. in Success?

Many people become success experts and never have much
success.

Why does this happen?

Because many people get caught in the trap of learning but
never applying what they learn.

If you have read a few of the classic books on success you
already know 90% of what it takes to succeed on a massive
scale in life.

You already know what to do and why to do it.

In fact, there is nothing whatsoever stopping you from
being happier, more successful and more content than you
have ever been.

Why then are you not already living the life of your dreams?

Because you have acquired a Ph.D. in success rather than a
successful life. You have confused knowing what to do with
actually doing it.

And you have incorrectly assumed that when you understand
the strategies of success that you will automatically be
successful. This is not how it works.

-- You only know what you can do --

From now on you might like to use this statement as the way
you measure your progress. This will stop you from
confusing knowledge with the implementation of that
knowledge.

You truly know something only when you can do it - not when
you can only describe how to do it.

A Ph.D. in success is easy to acquire but worth very
little. On the other hand the sincere application of those
very same principles and strategies can transform the
quality of your life very quickly.

All you need to do is unlock your personal motivation
blueprint - when you know what motivates you and how to
stay motivated your life will change.

You will have become one of the winners in life - those
people who apply time tested success principles.

A Creed for Self-Discipline

Willpower:
Recognizing that the power of will is the Supreme Court over all other departments of my mind, I will exercise it daily, when I need the urge to action for any purpose; and I will form habits designed to bring the power of my will into action at least once daily.

 

Emotions:
Realizing that my emotions are both positive and negative I will form daily habits which will encourage the development of the positive emotions, and aid me in converting the negative emotions into some form of useful action.

 

Reason:
Recognizing that both my positive emotions and my negative emotions may be dangerous if they are not controlled and guided to desirable ends, I will submit all my desires, aims and purposes to my faculty of reason, and I will be guided by it in giving expression to these.

 

Imagination:
Recognizing the need for sound plans and ideas for the attainment of my desires, I will develop my imagination by calling upon it daily for help in the formation of my plans.

 

Conscience:
Recognizing that my emotions often err in their over-enthusiasm, and my faculty of reason often is without the warmth of feeling that is necessary to enable me to combine justice with mercy in my judgments, I will encourage my conscience to guide me as to what is right and what is wrong, but I will never set aside the verdicts it renders, no matter what may be the cost of carrying them out.

 

Memory:
Recognizing the value of an alert memory, I will encourage mine to become alert by taking care to impress it clearly with all thoughts I wish to recall, and by associating those thoughts with related subjects which I may call to mind frequently.

 

Subconscious Mind:
Recognizing the influence of my subconscious mind over my power of will, I shall take care to submit to it a clear and definite picture of my major purpose in life and all minor purposes leading to my major purpose, and I shall keep this picture constantly before my subconscious mind by repeating it daily.

 

Signed_____________________________

Discipline over the mind is gained, little by little, by the formation of habits which one may control. Habits begin in the mind; therefore, a daily repetition of this creed will make one habit-conscious in connection with the particular kind of habits which are needed to develop and control the six departments of the mind.

The mere act of repeating the names of these departments has an important effect. It makes one conscious that these departments exist; that they are important; that they can be controlled by the formation of thought-habits; that the nature of these habits determines one's success or failure in the matter of self-discipline.