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    By Brian Tr

    DOUBLING YOURPRODUCTIVITY

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    IME MANAGEMENT FOR RESULTS

    Brian Tracy. All rights reserved. The contents, or parts thereof, may not be reproduced in any form for any purpose without the written permission of Brian Tracy.

    OUBLING YOUR PRODUCTIVITY

    TABLE OF CONTENTS

    CHAPTER ONE

    ime and Personal Empowerment ..................................................................................1

    CHAPTER TWO

    ersonal Strategic Planning ............................................................................................4

    Setting Your Priorities .....................................................................................................

    ART FOUR

    ala cing Work and Family .........................................................................................10

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    CHAPTER ONE

    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 RESOURCE .

    a. Time is perishable; it cannot be SAVED .

    b. Time is indispensable; all WORK requires it.

    c. Time is irreplaceable; nothing ELSE will do.

    d. Time is essential for ACHIEVEMENT .

    2. Time management is really PERSONAL management,

    LIFE management.

    3. Time management is a SKILL that can be learned.

    4. Time management requires 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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    . Time management enables you to control the SEQUENCE

    OF EVENTS .

    7. Your life, your INCOME and your REWARDS

    re determined by the way you USE your time.

    8. The biggest problem of working people today is TIME

    POVERTY .

    9. The fact is that you haveALL THE TIME

    there is no more and no less.

    10. Develop a PSYCHOLOGY of time management.

    a. Affirm: I AM EFFICIENT and

    WELL ORGANIZED .

    b. Visualize: SEE YOURSELF

    c. Act the part: Assume the role, ACT AS IF .

    11. Take the LONG view; develop long-time

    PERSPECTIVE .

    12. Take the SHORT view; allocate your time in

    SMALL amounts.

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    13. The VALUE of anything can be determined by

    how much of your TIME/LIFE youre willing to

    trade for it.

    14. PRACTICE makes PERFECT

    ; work on time management every minute of every day.

    15. Time management is your key to HAPPINESS and

    SUCCESS in life.

    NOTES

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    CHAPTER TWO

    PERSONAL STRATEGIC PLANNING

    Whenever you find something getting done,ou find a monomaniac with a mission.

    Peter Drucker

    1. The worst use of time is TO DO very well what

    NEED NOT be done at all. (B. Tregoe).

    2. Doing what you really ENJOY is the key to peak

    PERFORMANCE .

    3. Happiness comes then you BELIEVE in what youre doing,

    KNOW what youre doing and LOVE

    what youre doing.

    4. ZERO-BASED thinking is a key planning skill.

    5. Begin with your VALUES ; list the five things most

    IMPORTANT to you:

    . ____________________________________________________________

    . ____________________________________________________________

    3. ____________________________________________________________

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    4. ____________________________________________________________

    5. ____________________________________________________________

    . Quick List Method:

    1. ____________________________________________________________

    2. ____________________________________________________________

    3. ____________________________________________________________

    7. What would you DO , how would you spend your

    TIME if you learned that you only had SIX

    MONTHS to live?

    1. ____________________________________________________________

    2. ____________________________________________________________

    3. ____________________________________________________________

    4. ____________________________________________________________

    5. ____________________________________________________________

    . You need three types of goals for a balanced life:

    1. Family and personal GOALS WHY ?

    2. Career and financial GOALS WHAT ?

    3. Personal improvement GOALS : how?

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    . CLARITY is central to personal effectiveness:

    What OUTCOMES do you really want?

    What is the PRICE you will have to pay to get it?

    0. Time management is a VEHICLE to take you from wherever

    YOU ARE to wherever you WANT

    TO GO .

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    SETTING YOUR PRIORITIES

    Before you do anything, you have to do something else first.Murphys Law #3

    . Every action (or inaction) involves a CHOICE between

    hat is MORE important and what is LESS important.

    . Law of the EXCLUDED alternative doing one thing

    eans NOT doing something else.

    . Setting priorities means setting POSTERIORITIES as well.

    . Use the 80/20 RULE on everything.

    . Separate the urgent from the important.

    ey determinant? Long-term potential CONSEQUENCES .

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    . Use the ABCDE Method:

    A = MUST do: SERIOUS CONSEQUENCES

    B = SHOULD do: MILD CONSEQUENCES

    C = NICE TO do: NO CONSEQUENCES

    = DELEGATE EVERYTHING

    E = ELIMINATE :

    Use with goals, activities, daily lists.

    7. Law of Forced EFFICIENCY There is always enough time

    to do the most IMPORTANT things.

    a. What are your highest VALUE-ADDED activities?

    b. What are your KEY RESULT AREAS ?

    c. Why are you on the PAYROLL ?

    d. What can you, and only you, do, which if done well, will make a

    REAL DIFFERENCE

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    . Your REWARDS will be determined by your

    RESULTS

    What RESULTS are expected of you?

    . Action without THINKING is the cause

    of every failure. (Alex MacKenzie)

    0. Key question in time management: What is the MOST

    VALUABLE USE of my time right now?

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    _____________________________________________________________________

    _____________________________________________________________________

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    CHAPTER FOUR

    ALANCING WORK AND FAMILY

    No success in public life can compensate for failure in the home.

    Benjamin Disraeli

    1. Your HAPPINESS should be your chief aim in life.

    2. Fully 85% f your happiness comes from RELATIONSHIPS

    with others: POINTS OF INTENSITY .

    3. MODERATION in all things you need balance between

    your WORK and FAMILY to be happy.

    4. A feeling of STRESS , dissatisfaction arises when your activities

    nd goals are not CONGRUENT with your values.

    5. Begin with your VALUES ; what is really

    IMPORTANT to you?

    6. Describe your ideal LIFE-STYLE ; what ingredients

    would make you most happy?

    7. To do MORE of one thing, you must do LESS

    of others.

    What should you be doing MORE OF LESS OF ?

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    . Treat your time like MONEY ; how can you best

    SPEND it to achieve maximum satisfaction?

    . Set PEACE OF MIND as your highest goal, and

    organize your time/life around it.

    0. Key to balance: Do just TWO things:

    WORK nd FAMILY .

    1. WORK

    all the time youWORK

    ;put more of YOURSELF into the time.

    2. When youre with your FAMILY , be there 100%

    of the time.

    3. Limit/restrict television, newspapers, outside activities.

    Remember the Law of the EXCLUDED Alternative.

    4. Spend unbroken CHUNKS OF TIME with the most

    important people in your life.

    5. Its QUANTITY of time at home, QUALITY

    of time at work that counts.

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