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 organizeand 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.
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Fly with time
Non-Fictionwell effective book for those who are still finding their self...this book is about time management I wish all readers get positive thought after reading it
