DOUBLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

How to Manage Your T ime and Org anize Your Life

By Brian Tracy

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TIME MANAGEMENT FOR RESULTS

DOUBLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY TABLE OF CONTENTS CHAPTER ONE

Time and Personal Empowerment .................................................................................. 1 CHAPTER TWO

Personal Strategic Planning ............................................................................................4 CHAPTER THREE

Setting Your Priorities .....................................................................................................7 PART FOUR

Balancing Work and Family .........................................................................................10

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1 CHAPTER ONE

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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 a. b. c. d. 2. Time is perishable; it cannot be Time is indispensable; all Time is irreplaceable; nothing Time is essential for RESOURCE SAVED WORK ELSE ACHIEVEMENT . . requires it. will do. . management,

PERSONAL Time management is really LIFE management. Time management is a Time management requires SKILL

3. 4.

that can be learned. 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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2 6. Time management enables you to control the OF EVENTS . Your life, your INCOME

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7.

and your

REWARDS

are determined by the way you USE your time. 8. The biggest problem of working people today is POVERTY . The fact is that you have no more and no less. 10. Develop a a. Afrm: PSYCHOLOGY I AM EFFICIENT WELL ORGANIZED SEE YOURSELF ACT AS IF . . . of time management. and ALL THE TIME TIME

9.

there is

b. c. 11.

Visualize:

Act the part: Assume the role, LONG PERSPECTIVE SHORT SMALL

Take the

view; develop long-time . view; allocate your time in amounts.

12.

Take the

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3 13. The how much of your trade for it. 14. PRACTICE makes VALUE

www.seminar sondvd.com of anything can be determined by TIME/LIFE youre willing to

PERFECT

; work on time management every minute of every day. 15. Time management is your key to SUCCESS HAPPINESS in life. and

NOTES

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PERSONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING Whenever you nd something getting done, you nd a monomaniac with a mission. Peter Drucker 1. The worst use of time is NEED NOT TO DO very well what

be done at all. (B. Tregoe). is the key to peak . in what youre doing, LOVE

2.

ENJOY Doing what you really PERFORMANCE Happiness comes then you KNOW what youre doing.

3.

BELIEVE what youre doing and

4. 5.

ZERO-BASED

thinking is a key planning skill. ; list the ve things most

VALUES Begin with your IMPORTANT to you: 1. 2. 3.

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Quick List Method: 1. 2. 3. ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ DO , how would you spend your , if you learned that you only had to live?

7.

What would you TIME MONTHS 1. 2. 3. 4. 5.

SIX

____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________ ____________________________________________________________

8.

You need three types of goals for a balanced life: 1. 2. 3. Family and personal Career and nancial Personal improvement GOALS GOALS GOALS : : WHY WHAT : how? ? ?

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6 9. What What is the 10. CLARITY OUTCOMES PRICE

www.seminar sondvd.com is central to personal effectiveness: do you really want? you will have to pay to get it? VEHICLE . NOTES to take you from wherever WANT to wherever you

Time management is a YOU ARE TO GO

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SETTING YOUR PRIORITIES Before you do anything, you have to do something else rst. Murphys Law #3 1. CHOICE Every action (or inaction) involves a MORE LESS what is important and what is Law of the means 3. 4. 5. EXCLUDED NOT between important.

2.

alternative doing one thing

doing something else. POSTERIORITIES on everything. as well.

Setting priorities means setting Use the 80/20 RULE

Separate the urgent from the important.

Key determinant? Long-term potential

CONSEQUENCES

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8 6. Use the ABCDE Method: A= B= C= D= E= MUST SHOULD NICE TO DELEGATE ELIMINATE do: do: do: : :

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SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES MILD CONSEQUENCES NO CONSEQUENCES EVERYTHING

Use with goals, activities, daily lists. 7. Law of Forced to do the most a. b. c. d. EFFICIENCY IMPORTANT : There is always enough time things. activities? ? ?

What are your highest What are your Why are you on the

VALUE-ADDED KEY RESULT AREAS PAYROLL

What can you, and only you, do, which if done well, will make a REAL DIFFERENCE ?

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9 8. Your REWARDS RESULTS RESULTS .

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What 9. Action without

are expected of you? THINKING is the cause

of every failure. (Alex MacKenzie) 10. MOST Key question in time management: What is the VALUABLE USE of my time right now? _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ _____________________________________________________________________ NOTES

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BALANCING WORK AND FAMILY No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home. Benjamin Disraeli 1. 2. Your Fully HAPPINESS 85% should be your chief aim in life.

with others: 3. your 4. A feeling of and goals are not 5.

RELATIONSHIPS of your happiness comes from POINTS OF INTENSITY . in all things you need balance between FAMILY to be happy.

MODERATION WORK and

STRESS

, dissatisfaction arises when your activities CONGRUENT with your values. ; what is really to you? ; what ingredients

VALUES Begin with your IMPORTANT Describe your ideal would make you most happy?

6.

LIFE-STYLE

7.

To do of others.

MORE

of one thing, you must do

LESS

What should you be doing

MORE OF

LESS OF

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11 8. Treat your time like SPEND Set MONEY

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it to achieve maximum satisfaction? as your highest goal, and

9.

PEACE OF MIND

organize your time/life around it. 10. Key to balance: Do just WORK WORK put more of 12. TWO and things: FAMILY

. ;

11.

WORK all the time you YOURSELF into the time. FAMILY , be there

When youre with your of the time.

100%

13.

Limit/restrict television, newspapers, outside activities. Remember the Law of the EXCLUDED CHUNKS OF TIME Alternative. with the most

14.

Spend unbroken important people in your life.

15.

Its

QUANTITY

of time at home,

QUALITY

of time at work that counts.

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12 NOTES

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