Tag: time management
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How many Thursdays do you have left in your life?
I don’t know about you, but no matter what I do, it seems like I always use more time to do something than I should use. This is not a new phenomenon. Actually if you look it up there is actual supposed law for this belief. Called Parkinson’s Law. Cyril Northcote Parkinson, actually wrote about…
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The two best measurements on determining what you think is important
Years ago when I was single I would eat out a lot, even more so than I do as a married man now, I think. Ha Ha. I can remember one year I was looking at my bank account online. My bank had one of those software systems that put all of my spending into…
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6 Things Sales People can Learn from Donald Trump
If you are a republican you might really like this post. If you are a democrat the chances are you aren’t going to like this post or what is in it. I want to challenge you regardless of which way you lean politically to read the post and learn something from it. I am not…
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6 absolutes you must remember as a manager of people
I am finishing up a great read on coaching from a managers perspective. The book is titled Coaching For Improved Work Performance; Increase productive, raise quality, reduce absenteeism, get more creativity, increase sales. The author is Ferdinand F. Fournies. He has written several books around the this topic. What is a management? 1. We can…
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Decide; Work Smarter and Lead, book notes and summary
Decide; Work Smarter, Reduce your Stress, and Lead by example. author: Steve McClatchy Link to book: http://www.amazon.com/Decide-Smarter-Reduce-Stress-Example/dp/1118554388/ Steve McClatchy has taken time management and priorities to a different level. He presents the material in his book in a unique way with stories and illustrations that really make the points he is conveying. This is one of…
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Willpower is finite…
I am reading the book “Start” by Jon Acuff. I am half way through it, and it has me so motivated. In one of the chapters he focuses on willpower. I consider myself to have a lot of willpower, but as he states, willpower is finite. I remember, when I was about 14 my buddy…
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5 (new) Super Short Book Summaries, if you’re interested
In this day and age, brevity is better. So in my attempt to share with others and add value to others, here are my super short book summaries for my last five reads. Title: How to Be Rich (Its not what you have. Its what you do with what you have); author: Andy Stanley…
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What is average?
What is average? As many of my closest friends and colleagues know, I am reading books on excellence. In each of these books I have found that the company’s, the people, the country’s, the leaders, the CEO’s, etc. are not doing extraordinary things, they are just doing the ordinary things very well. There are about…
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Leadership Alert Here
You can’t teach what you don’t possess. You can’t teach motivation when you don’t have motivation You can’t teach a skill if you don’t practice that skill yourself. You can’t teach discipline when you don’t have discipline. You can’t tell me about life when you don’t live a life that others would want to live. You can’t ask me…
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Yep I did it…
I did it… Yep I finally did it. I was inspired by a good friend of mine and something I heard in church to finally do it. Yep, I cut my cable television off. When I called in to cut it off, the cable company basically kept offering more and more discounts. It is not…
Pennies into Fortunes 