We are the always-on society. On the phone, on the computer, on the go. We do email like Pavlov's dogs; the new-mail bell dings, the screen exerts its magnetic pull, and our mouths start watering (at least mentally). We check our phones waiting in line, while talking to others, even while driving. We spend hours in ineffective meetings, re-deciding what we thought we'd decided in the previous meeting. We scurry through the warrens of the Internet, chasing after an elusive link (or the latest sports score) as if it were a white rabbit with a pocket watch. We're trying to ride off in all directions at once. It's neither fun nor efficient. It isn't low-stress, either. It's also avoidable, or at least controllable. What we need is an off switch. Actually, we need a collection of off switches. Just as each room in the house has its own lights with their own off switches, each of these threats to productivity (and sanity) have off switches. This straightforward and highly focused book defines those off switches. It describes how and when to use them, and it does so in simple, readable terms that lead to action and results. Author Steven B. Levy takes a new look at attention, focus, efficiency, and effectiveness. He shows readers how to escape the trap of the tense present, how to stop bouncing from mini-task to mini-task. Reduce interruptions and partial-attention tasks, and we reduce stress as we build effectiveness as workers and as leaders. Levy's book shows us how we can accomplish more with the same amount of effort. We need to find the off switches in our workplaces and working lives, and flip them. That's the process of discovering our work-work balance... which is the first necessary step in achieving a long-term work-life balance.

"The bad news is time flies. The good news is you're the pilot." (Michael Althsuler) In this, her second book, Joy Kelshall explores the concept that successful time management is simply a way of life. It is a continuous process of planning and organizing your time. This will involve your attitude and habits which will directly affect your ability to succeed. It includes: Definitions of time management, various established systems of time management, problems that occur resulting from one's attitude and habits, planning & prioritizing tasks, delegating, time wasters and benefits. "Embracing Success Through Time Management" reveals how "being rich is having money" but, "being wealthy is having time." (Margaret Bonnano) In addition this book reinforces, "You might well remember that nothing can bring you success but yourself." (Napoleon Hill)

He had found his remedy for the summer slump. Within a week he had installed a system of large overhead fans and an exhaust blower and saw his production figures mount to the winter's best average. From careless, indifferent workers, on edge at trifles and difficult to hold, his force developed steadiness and efficiency. Not only was the output increased twenty per cent over previous summers, but the proportion of spoiled work was considerably reduced.

Being your own boss means setting your own schedule. Sounds easy, right? Instead, it's one of the toughest parts of freelancing. In this short book, international bestselling writer Kristine Kathryn Rusch shows you how to create a schedule, meet deadlines, take time for vacation, and cope with illness. The perfect guide for freelancers who can't find enough time in the day.

In today's ever changing world everyone is struggling to find more time. Each day millions of Sales Professionals start their day behind and never catch up. In The Race To Success, author Cheryl Clausen challenges you to think differently about time and in doing so she turns the whole concept of time management upside down. One step at a time you will move from being time strapped to time abundant, into a future in which you enjoy both personal and professional success. This book is for those serious about using their time to produce the greatest results. Results you can't even imagine at this moment. Results that will change your life and your business forever.

The Race To Success will give you the tools to make more of the one thing we all need these days - time! - Jeb Blount, bestselling author of Power Principles

Cheryl Clausen has delivered a magnificent work for sales people who are ready to take their sales game to the next level. - Lee B. Salz, author of the award winning book Soar Despite Your Dodo Sales Manager, C.E.O. of Business Expert Webinars, and President of Sales Architects

Cheryl's new book on managing and making the most of our most precious commodity - time - is awesome! Believe me, reading and applying the ideas in this book will be time well spent. - Mike Brooks, Mr. Inside Sales, bestselling author of The Real Secrets of the Top 20%

Once you experience increased productivity, improved work-life balance, and new levels of professional success you can bet people will want to know your secret. Tell them! - Clayton Shold, award winning author of Salesopedia

About the Author: With more than 20 years of coaching experience, Cheryl A. Clausen is arecognized author who has published more than 500 articles on the topics of time mastery, marketing, and sales. She's a regular contributor to Salesopedia, Top 10 Sales Articles, Sales Gravy, and Top Sales Dog, and she writes a column in The Heartland Messenger. She works with individuals and organization's developing knowledge, skills, and strategies to increase sales.

Get 100 practical, easy to implement, effective strategies to help you increase focus, organization and productivity at work. Find what you need when you need it, be on time with your appointments and commitments, work free of distraction in your office, reduce stress, improve your follow through, and increase revenue. Work smarter, not harder with systems and habits that work.

The Lazy Manager in a concise format tells the story of a retail manager who must turn around a store beset by terrible morale and the lowest productivity figures in its chain. Confronting these challenges reveals incredibly simple ways that any manager can use to work smarter, not harder and deliver breakthrough results in the workplace while achieving a balanced lifestyle. In a seamless and fast paced narrative sure to be appreciated universally by time starved executives, the book provides crucial lessons in effortless management performance, including how to manage a new team, how to delegate, how to recruit, succession planning and much more. The Lazy Manager is designed for new and experienced managers alike and it will connect with managers of every educational background, from high school graduates to Ivy Leaguers. Its principles and techniques are highly relevant within every industry and every type of organization, including start-ups, non-profits, government agencies and international corporations.

In today's 21st workplace getting results to keep your professional edge is of the utmost importance. Yet in today's fast past, high demand work environments, getting meaningful results is feeling ever more elusive. More and more in today's work climates the satisfaction of results is being replaced with feelings of overwhelm and stress. With layoffs and budget cuts, many are struggling to stay afloat let alone enjoy a sense of meaningful accomplishment. They are swimming in mounds of paperwork and emails while negotiating the pressures of competing priorities and the demands of their boss. If this remotely describes your work experience, this book is meant to come to your rescue It's based on the wildly popular seminar of a similar name and addresses many of the challenging elements of a work day that impact that feeling of meaningful achievement and success. The content of this book addresses many of components of the everyday work experience and is written through the lens of time and organizational management. It has been delivered to thousands of seminar attendees across the country, from a breath of public, governmental and non profit companies. The foundational premise of this book - every activity - is really a time management issue. "Consider this activity list..." -managing interruptions -paperwork -your boss -finding items in your workspace -competing priorities -feeling stressed and overwhelmed -how you make decisions -email overload -how your personality impacts your productivity -to name a few This book addressed them all, and that's what makes this book different.It's doesn't address just one singular element (e.g. only time management), but covers many areas and thereby offers more value than a typical "how to manage time or get more organized" book. So if you want to... - feel more in control and competent - find things in your workspace quickly - confidently negotiate your work load - effectively manage interruptions with tact - get more done in the same amount of time - minimize feeling stressed - be a more skilled decision maker - get simple tips for efficiently managing email - experience higher levels of work satisfaction then this book is for you Consider it your portable seminar and me, your portable coach To your success

The fight against chaos is universal, whether it be the outward chaos of disorder and frenzy or the inward chaos of fear and self-criticism. Even if we already know how to do better, something falls apart between our good intentions and getting it done. Most books on organization just add more rules to your life, whether it be another plan, another calendar, or another method. This book will show you a different, better way that is grounded in the grace of God. Jesus taught that true change doesn't come by the addition of more rules, but from the inside out, with a change of the heart that only the gospel can bring. When you identify the heart problems behind the chaos in your life, lasting change can happen. This will not only reduce the stress in your life, but help you be more effective in your service to God.

There fs just too much to do There is a lot to do. There is a lot to do at home or at work. Sometimes it just feels overwhelming. Don ft you wish you could be more productive?The Special Forces Green Berets are known as masters at getting things done. By normal standards, some of their missions would be deemed impossible. Often times they are expected to operate far behind enemy lines with limited resources. Their training gives them principles and techniques in being extremely effective and doing more with less. By using some of their principles you will be able to: Plan and use your time more effectively Increase your confidence Reduce distractions Train for success Improve commitment and much moreMichael Martel uses his real experiences as a Green Beret to illustrate how you can use these techniques in your life to gget er done. h It is a great, interesting read that will make you much more effective in your daily activities.

A collection of powerful affirmations on time management by productivity expert, coach, speaker and sociologist Dr. Jan Yager, and selected famous quotes on time, that also includes useful activities for improving efficiency at work and in one's leisure time. There is an introduction about time management, an essay on the three time management lessons that the author's father taught her, and a bibliography. ""Productivity guru Jan Yager's original and insightful affirmations are a wonderful tool for gaining control over your time, at work or in your leisure hours."-Laura Stack, Supercompetent About the author: Dr. Jan Yager has been researching time management, and conducting workshops, coaching, and delivering keynote addresses on productivity, since the 1980s. She is also the author of Creative Time Management for the New Millennium; Work Less, Do More and 28 other nonfiction and fiction titles translated into 24 languages. She has been interviewed on major talk shows such as Oprah, Today Show, Good Morning, America, and has been on several international author tours.
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Steve Chandler, bestselling author of 100 Ways to Motivate Yourself, has created this newest title for the many of us who are time challenged throughout the day. Chandler's Time Warrior gives us a revolutionary, non-linear approach for dealing with time, as bold as it is fresh and new. Forget whatever "guidebooks" you may have read on time management or personal productivity. Time Warrior is much more than tips and tricks. Steve Chandler has given us an invitation - as well as a challenge - to become something far greater than we are now. To become, in essence, a "style tracker" rather than a "time tracker." Tracking your cognitive style is what makes you a Time Warrior, for only your unique cognitive style can liberate you from the treadmill of linear, limited time. This book takes you on a 101-chapter journey intended to transmute the base metals of ordinary linear time-consciousness into the gold of the Time Warrior's non-linear vision. You will learn to create for yourself a newfound and more powerful cognitive style that will make time tracking, multi-tasking and other clock-subservient behaviors an unsavory and distant memory.

An experienced trainer demonstrates that the most important element of success is not putting in longer hours or expending more energy--it is keeping everything in balance. He outlines five key life components that must be brought into harmony and kept on track, or productivity will inevitably slow to a crawl; once this balance is acheived, less effort is needed to maintain stability and productivity increases. This principled yet practical motivational program is bolstered with anecdotes, research, and many years of personal observation and interaction with leaders and executives in training seminars and radio broadcasts. Individuals from all walks of life--sales representatives, managers, secretaries, educators, small-business owners, and stay-at-home parents--can make this program their own and increase effectiveness in every aspect of their lives.

Machines need to be productive. People need to be effective. Productivity books focus on doing more, Jim and Tonianne want you to focus on doing better. Personal Kanban is about choosing the right work at the right time. Recognizing why we do the things we do. Understanding the impact of our actions. Creating value - not just product. For ourselves, our families, our friends, our co-workers. For our legacy. Personal Kanban takes the same Lean principles from manufacturing that led the Japanese auto industry to become a global leader in quality, and applies them to individual and team work. Personal Kanban asks only that we visualize our work and limit our work-in-progress. Visualizing work allows us to transform our conceptual and threatening workload into an actionable, context-sensitive flow. Limiting our work-in-progress helps us complete what we start and understand the value of our choices. Combined, these two simple acts encourage us to improve the way we work and the way we make choices to balance our personal, professional, and social lives. Neither a prescription nor a plan, Personal Kanban provides a light, actionable, achievable framework for understanding our work and its context. This book describes why students, parents, business leaders, major corporations, and world governments all see immediate results with Personal Kanban.

If you can't spend another hour at work, or plan another meal, or run another errand without screaming for more time in your day, read this book. If you want to organize your day, increase your effectiveness, and become smarter about your life, read this book. Dr. Patrick Georges is a busy man-a neurosurgeon who operates on patients, teaches class, spends time with his family, and travels for business all without fatigue, stress, or spinning in circles. This book shows you how he does it and gives you the checklists to keep your busy life at bay.This book will increase your productivity at work by 5 to 15 percent and gives specific techniques and advice to help you achieve this goal through better organization, through better communications, and with smarter choices.Dr. Georges outlines practical tools that can be used by anyone to increase their intelligence through better organization and offers the 10 most common personal organization errors people make everyday. He gives you the tools you can use to improve your physical and mental health and your workspace, make your work day more effective, set goals and priorities, and organize your team's work or your busy family's agenda.