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    Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day: Move from Surviving to Thriving
    Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day: Move from Surviving to Thriving
    Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day: Move from Surviving to Thriving
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    Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day: Move from Surviving to Thriving

    By Lee Cockerell

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    A Disney executive VP shares his indispensable time management secrets in this guide to accomplishing more every day.
     
    During Lee Cockerell’s career as the senior operating executive of Walt Disney World Resorts, he led a team of forty thousand employees. He was responsible for the operations of twenty resort hotels, four theme parks, two water parks, and the ESPN Sports Complex. Having so many responsibilities taught Lee a lot about time management, and he began to share his expertise on the subject to help others make the best use of their time.
     
    The time management secrets Lee developed have become one of his most requested corporate training lectures and are now available to you in this tell-all book. However, this book is not just about managing your time. It is about life management as well. The executive time management secrets contained in this book will help you keep all parts of your life under control and jump-start your personal and professional growth. Lee’s first piece of advice is “Don’t underestimate what you can achieve.”
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJun 4, 2019
    ISBN9781642793192
    Time Management Magic: How to Get More Done Every Day: Move from Surviving to Thriving
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    Lee Cockerell

    Lee Cockerell has spent his entire career in the hospitality industry. He spent eight years with Hilton Hotels, and seventeen with Marriotts Corporation, before joining Disney in 1990 to open Disneyland Paris. Since leaving Disneyland in 2006, he has published a book, Creating Magic, on leadership and excellence in customer service, and consults on issues such as customer service for organisations such as the Disney Institute.

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      thank you for your written sooooo useful and effective and i think if we run through it will give more times for others life activities

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    Time Management Magic - Lee Cockerell

    CHAPTER 1

    This Is Your Life!

    One of the most important things you can do is to sit down and think deeply about how you spend your time, where you don’t spend your time and where you should be spending your time—not just at work, but also in every part of your life. The quality of your life is directly affected by how and where you spend your time.

    In this day and age, just about everyone feels overwhelmed by all the demands on their time. Those demands have become more intense than ever. Most people are required to do more at work, and that, coupled with their multiple responsibilities outside of work, can be so stressful that they simply feel out of control. And that is one of the worst feelings we can have. It is not the stress that kills you; it’s the distress from feeling out of control.

    But here’s one of the most important things I’ve learned: Most people are not overworked … they are under-organized.

    We need to figure out how to be more organized, so we can get all the urgent, vital and important things done before it’s too late. I believe that the average person can do 50 percent more than they are doing now, including all the right things, if they have an effective system for keeping their lives under control.

    The number one excuse people use for not getting done what should be done is, I did not have enough time. Throughout this book I will show you why that is a ridiculous statement. It is really nothing more than an excuse, since we all have exactly the same amount of time. Think for a moment about how profound that statement is. It means that Oprah, Bill Gates, Mark Zuckerberg and J.K. Rowling have no more time available to them than what is afforded to you and me. The same is true of every successful person throughout history who’s become a household name: Thomas Edison, Susan B. Anthony, Martin Luther King Jr., Estée Lauder—no one has more than 24 hours in a day … and no one has less than that either.

    Simply put, some very busy people get it all done, and some people who are not all that busy don’t get much done.

    The problem is, people believe the I don’t have enough time excuse. They really believe that’s just the way it is. But nothing is just the way it is. Things are the way you let them be. Again, we all have the same amount of time. In my experience, people usually have time to do what they want to do, but they don’t make time to do what they should do.

    As I always tell leaders, Your role is to do what has to be done, when it has to be done, in the way it should be done, whether you like it or not and whether they like it or not. And leadership is not about titles, or job descriptions, or salary grade. There’s a big difference between leadership and management. Management is about how to do. Leadership is about how to be. It’s about having influence and making an impact on others. And leadership is not just for the workplace. We are all leaders. In one way or another, whether in business, with our families, neighborhoods, communities or our places of worship, we are all leaders, and we need to be much better organized and much more reliable.

    Parents should pay particular attention to this idea. Children are not supposed to be happy all the time. Your responsibility as a parent is to do what has to be done, when it has to be done, in the way it should be done, whether your children like it or not. Turn that TV off. Get them to put away the electronic games and computers. Get them to play outside and to read books, whether they like it or not. Physical fitness and a love of reading are among the most important gifts you can give your

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