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    Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
    Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
    Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
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    Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)

    By Brian Tracy

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    It’s a simple equation: the better you use your time, the more you will accomplish and the greater you will succeed. Imagine what you could accomplish with two more productive hours every single day.

    In this indispensable, pocket-sized guide, business author and success expert Brian Tracy reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day.

    Tracy also identifies and shares the strategies he’s learned himself has identified as the most effective for readers having trouble fitting everything the day brings them inside a 24-hour window.

    In Time Management, you will learn how to:

    • Handle endless interruptions, meetings, emails, and phone calls
    • Identify your key result areas
    • Allocate enough time for top priority responsibilities
    • Batch similar tasks to preserve focus and make the most of each minute
    • Overcome procrastination
    • Determine what to delegate and what to eliminate
    • Utilize Program Evaluation and Review Techniques to work backward from the future, and more!

    Filled with Tracy's trademark wisdom, Time Management is an invaluable, time-creating resource that will help you get more done in less time and with much less stress.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherThomas Nelson
    Release dateJan 20, 2014
    ISBN9780814433447
    Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library)
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    Brian Tracy

    BRIAN TRACY is the Chairman and CEO of Brian Tracy International, a company specializing in the training and development of individuals and organizations. One of the top business speakers and authorities in the world today, he has consulted for more than 1,000 companies and addressed more than 5,000,000 people in 5,000 talks and seminars throughout the United States and more than 60 countries worldwide. He has written 55 books and produced more than 500 audio and video learning programs on management, motivation, and personal success.

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    Time Management (The Brian Tracy Success Library) - Brian Tracy

    Introduction

    YOUR ABILITY TO manage your time, as much as any other practice in your career as an executive, will determine your success or failure. Time is the one indispensable and irreplaceable resource of accomplishment. It is your most precious asset. It cannot be saved, nor can it be recovered once lost. Everything you have to do requires time, and the better you use your time, the more you will accomplish, and the greater will be your rewards.

    Time management is essential for maximum health and personal effectiveness. The degree to which you feel in control of your time and your life is a major determinant of your level of inner peace, harmony, and mental well-being. A feeling of being out of control of your time is the major source of stress, anxiety, and depression. The better you can organize and control the critical events of your life, the better you will feel, moment to moment, the more energy you will have, the better you will sleep, and the more you will get done.

    It is possible for you to gain two productive hours each working day, or even double your output and your productivity, by using the ideas and methods taught in this book. These techniques have proven successful for many thousands of executives in every field of endeavor, and they will prove successful for you, too, as long as you have what I call the four Ds.

    The Four Ds of Effectiveness

    The first D is desire: You must have an intense, burning desire to get your time under control and to achieve maximum effectiveness.

    The second D is decisiveness: You must make a clear decision that you are going to practice good time management techniques until they become a habit.

    The third D stands for determination: You must be willing to persist in the face of all temptations to the contrary until you have become an effective time manager. Your desire will reinforce your determination.

    And finally, the most important key to success in life, the fourth D, is discipline: You must discipline yourself to make time management a lifelong practice. Effective discipline is the willingness to force yourself to pay the price, and to do what you know you should do, when you should do it, whether you feel like it or not. This is critical for success.

    The payoff for becoming an excellent time manager is huge. It is the outwardly identifiable quality of a high performer vs. a low performer. All winners in life use their time well. All poor performers in life use their time poorly. One of the most important rules for success is simply to form good habits and make them your masters. In this book, you will learn how to form good habits and then let them form you.

    What you will learn in this book are the twenty-one most important solutions to effective time management that almost all highly productive people have discovered and incorporated into their lives.

    Remember that time management is really life management. Good time management and personal productivity begins by valuing your life, and every minute of that life.

    Do What You Can, with What You Have, Right Where You Are

    You should say to yourself, My life is precious and important, and I value every single minute and hour of it. I am going to use those hours properly so that I accomplish the most I can, in the time that I have.

    The good news is that time management is a business skill, and all business skills are learnable. Time management is like riding a bicycle, typing on a keyboard, or playing a sport. It is made up of a series of methods, strategies, and techniques. It is a skill set that you can learn, practice, and master with determination and repetition.

    ONE

    The Psychology of Time Management

    HOW YOU THINK and feel about yourself largely determines the quality of your life, and the emotional core of your personality is your self-esteem, defined as how much you like yourself.

    Your self-esteem is largely determined by the way you use your life and time in the development of your full potential. Your self-esteem increases when you are working efficiently, and your self-esteem goes down when you are not.

    The flip side of the coin of self-esteem is called self-efficacy, defined as the degree to which you feel you are competent, capable, and productive, able to solve your problems, do your work, and achieve your goals.

    The more competent, capable, and productive you feel, the higher your self-esteem. The higher your self-esteem, the more productive and capable you will be. Each one supports and reinforces the other.

    People who manage their time well feel positive, confident, and in charge of their lives.

    The Law of Control

    The psychology of time management is based on a simple principle called the Law of Control. This law says that you feel good about yourself to the degree to which you feel you are in control of your own life. This law also says that you feel negative about yourself to the degree to which you feel that you are not in control of your own life or work.

    Psychologists refer to the difference between an internal locus of control, where you feel that you are the master of your own destiny, and an external locus of control, where you feel that you are controlled by circumstances outside yourself.

    When you have an external locus of control, you feel that you are controlled by your boss and your bills, and by the pressure of your work and responsibilities. You feel that you have too much to do in too little time, and that you are not really in charge of your time and your life. Most of what you are doing, hour after hour, is reacting and responding to external events.

    There is a big difference between action that is self-determined and goal-directed and reaction, which is an immediate response to external pressure. It’s the difference between feeling positive and in control of your life and feeling negative, stressed, and pressured. To perform at your best, you must have a strong feeling of control in the important areas of your business and personal life.

    Your Thoughts and Feelings

    In psychological terms, each person has a self-concept, an internal master program that regulates

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