Managing Multiple
Priorities
The Art of Effective
Time Management
Building a Better Life…
Concrete Steps for Success
Joel K. Oppenheimer, PE
E-Mail: [email protected]
410-802-8883
How Are You Doing?
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Great! Terrific!
Good.
I will get by.
Hanging in there.
I would be doing much better if I did not have
to sit here and listen to this talk.
• Not bad. At least I do not have to work today.
• Not bad. The weekend is not too far away.
• OK. I’ll survive.
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Covey’s 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Habit 7: Sharpen the Saw
Public
Victory
Interdependence
Habit 6: Synergize
Habit 5: Seek First to Understand, Then to be Understood
Habit 4: Think Win / Win
Private
Victory
Independence
Habit 3: Put First Things First
Habit 2: Begin with the End in Mind
Habit 1: Be Proactive
Dependence
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What Do You Want?
What is success?
What makes a great day?
What makes a great life?
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Six Requirements for Success
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Peace of Mind
Health / Energy
Loving Relationships
Financial Freedom
Worthy Goals & Ideas
Personal Fulfillment
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Success?
Where are you today?
“Wheel of Life”
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Wheel of Life
Rank level of satisfaction for each area from 0 (completely
dissatisfied) to 10 (absolutely completely satisfied)
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Wheel of Life
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Habit 1
“Be Proactive”
Attitudes
for Success
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Attitude
• Starts with your thinking – “Change
Your Thinking, Change Your Life”
(Brian Tracy)
• Being Proactive
• Being Positive
• Being Responsible (Response-able)
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Attitude – 6 Key Words
We become what
we think about!
Napoleon Hill & Earl Nightingale
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Proactive Versus Reactive
PROACTIVE
• I can
• I choose
• I can
• I will
• I will
• I am responsible
• It was my fault
• I control my future
• Let’s solve it
• I will find a solution
REACTIVE
• I can’t
• I have to
• I wish or I hope
• I’ll try
• I should
• He is to blame
• It was their fault
• He controls my future
• Life is full of problems
• It will never work
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Law of Cause and Effect
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Everything happens for a reason; for every
effect, there is a specific cause.
Thoughts are causes, conditions are effects.
Sowing and Reaping
“If you keep doing what you have been doing,
you will keep getting what you have been
getting.”
Old Texas saying: “If all you ever do is all you've
ever done, then all you'll ever get is all you ever
got.”
To change your life, change your thoughts.
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Law of Attraction
• Living magnet attracting people,
situations and circumstances that
harmonize with our dominant thoughts.
• “Birds of a feather, flock together.”
• “If you want to soar like an eagle, don’t
hang with the turkeys.” [Zig Ziglar]
• “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne
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Law of Attraction
• Negative vibration words:
– Don’t
– Not
– No
• Instead, What do I want?
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Law of Substitution
• Since your mind can only focus on one
thought at a time, we can substitute a
positive thought for a negative one.
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Universal Laws of Success
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Law of Control
Law of Cause and Effect (Sowing/Reaping)
Law of Belief
Law of Expectation
Law of Attraction
Law of Concentration
Law of Substitution
Law of Correspondence
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Habit 2
“Begin with the End in Mind”
Goal Setting
for Success
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1st Step – Setting Goals
“If you do not know where you are
going, all roads will get you
there.”
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1st Step – Setting Goals
“If you don’t have goals for yourself,
you are doomed forever to work to
achieve the goals of others.”
Brian Tracy
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Reasons to Set Goals
• Set direction
• To grow (in the right direction, consciously)
• To be aware of what one wants and then to
set about doing it
• Measure accomplishments
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Reasons People Do Not Set Goals
• Fear of failure
• Fear of success
– Others won’t like me, ridicule, feel guilty
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Avoids risking, avoids change
Now what
Low self-esteem (not worthy)
I don’t have the time
Logic (Left Brain) – It feels silly
Not sold on value
Do not know how
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S.M.A.R.T. Goals
S
= Specific
M
= Measurable
A
= Attainable or Achievable
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= Relevant / Realistic
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= Time-bound
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Principles of Goal Setting
1. “Dream big dreams”
“The greater danger for most of us is not that
our aim is too high and we miss it,
but that it is too low and we reach it.”
Michelangelo
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Principles of Goal Setting
1. “Dream big dreams”
2. Goals must be written in present tense,
personal, positive, visual, emotional
(reticular activating system)
3. Goals must be balanced
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What – Business, Career, Financial
Why – Personal, Family, Health
How –Professional & Personal Development
4. Major definite purpose
5. Plan of Action to accomplish goals
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4 Quick Questions on Goals
From Brian Tracy’s “GOALS”
1. In 30 seconds, what are your 3 most important
lifetime goals right now?
2. In 60 seconds, list 5 basic values in life. What 5
things do you value most in life?
Now prioritize 1-5.
3. In 60 seconds, what would you do if you only
had 6 months to live? Make a list. If it is not on
the list, you cannot do it.
4. In 60 seconds, what would you do if you won
$1M? List it or you cannot do it.
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Major Definite Purpose
• Eulogy / Life Story / Epitaph
A POSITIVE LIFE
OF LOVING,
LEARNING, LIVING
AND HELPING
OTHERS ACHIEVE
SUCCESS
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Major Definite Purpose
• Eulogy / Life Story / Epitaph
HE MADE A
DIFFERENCE
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Goal Setting Exercise
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Goal Setting Exercise
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Goal Attainment
“A goal properly set
is halfway achieved.”
“A goal without a deadline is
just a dream.”
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Setting Goals
“Goal setting
is the
master skill of success.”
Brian Tracy
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Habit 3
“Put First Things First”
Time Management
for Success
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Time Management
“Get busy living,
or get busy dying”
Tim Robbins (Andy Dufresne to “Red”)
(Shawshank Redemption)
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Goals Set Priorities
• With Priorities Set…
• What is the most valuable use of my
time right now?
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Why Time Management
Stephen Covey asks:
“How many people on their death
beds wish they had spent more
time at the office?”
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Time Management
We are all busy but…
Are we productive?
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Time Management
“You run the day or it runs you.”
Jim Rohn
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Time – Unique Resource
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Cannot accumulate / store
Everyone has same amount
Cannot be replaced
Spent at constant rate of 60
seconds per minute
• All accomplishments require time
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Time – “A Full Day”
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Television
Television
Sharpen the Saw
Family
Family
Work
Work
Sleep
Sleep
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Why Time Management
All Things Being Equal,
TIME Becomes the Differentiator!
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Time Management
Save time by wasting less of it!
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Time Management
• Can’t save time in large blocks
but…
• Saving 30 seconds every 5 minutes
provides nearly one hour every day
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Time Management
All successful people have one thing
in common…
They value time!
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Definition of Time Management
“Time Management is planning and
organizing your time in such a way
that you accomplish your most
important goals as quickly as
possible.”
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Keys to Effective Time Management
• Psychology of Time Management
• Set Clear Goals and Objectives
– Consistent with highest aspirations
– Consistent with values and convictions
• Create Detailed Plans of Action
• Establish Clear Priorities – Work on Highest
Value Task
• Develop Good Work Habits
– Focus, Concentrate & Singlemindedness
• Plan Complex Tasks
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Keys to Effective Time Management
“Law of Forced Efficiency”
– The more you take on, the more efficient
you will become in achieving your most
important tasks.
– Never enough time for everything but
always enough time for the most
important things.
– Want to get something done, give it to a
busy person.
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Pareto’s Principle (80-20 Rule)
• 80% of effects comes from 20% of causes
(Law of Cause and Effect)
• 80% of sales comes from 20% of clients
• Focus on 20% of tasks that create 80% of
results
• Do not “major in minor things”
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High Priority Task
• High future impacts to your goals
• Important future consequences
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Low Priority Task
• Little or no impact to your goals
• Little or no future impacts
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Time Management Matrix
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Quadrant of
Crisis
Quadrant of
Quality
• Crises
• Pressing Problems
• Deadline Driven Projects
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Quadrant of
Deception
Interruptions and some phone calls
Some mail and some reports
Some meetings
Many popular activities
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Preparation
Crisis Prevention
Values Clarification
Planning
Quadrant of
Waste
Trivia, busy work
Junk mail, junk e-mail
Some phone calls
Time Wasters and escape activities
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Value
• 2 Sources of Value - Time & Knowledge
• Every job is to solve problems & satisfy
needs of people
• Value added is through increased
productivity
• Successful people are more productive
than unsuccessful people
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Value of Time
• Rewards in Life will Match Service
Provided
• “You can have anything you want in life if
you just help enough other people get
what they want.” [Zig Ziglar]
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Best Practices – Value of Time
• Law of Compensation: “You are always fully
compensated for whatever you do, positive or
negative.”
• Whatever you put in, you get out (Law of
Sowing and Reaping)
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Best Practices – Value of Time
• If you want to increase the quality and
quantity of your pay, you must increase the
quality and quantity of your contribution (the
service you provide).
• “When we do more than we are paid to do,
eventually we will be paid more for what we
do.” [Zig Ziglar]
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Best Practices – Value of Time
• “Law of Comparative Advantage”
• Hourly rate (current and desired)
• Can someone else less expensive do the
task?
• If so, delegate.
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Comparative Advantages
STRENGTHS
WEAKNESSES
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Marcus Buckingham “Now, Discover Your Strengths”
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7 Ways to Get More Done
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Work harder with greater focus & concentration.
Work with faster tempo.
Batch similar tasks - learning curves.
Do more important things, higher value tasks. with
higher potential payoff.
Do things that you are better at.
Make fewer mistakes. Do it right first time.
Simplify work – reduce, eliminate or consolidate steps.
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8 Time Wasters
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Cluttered/Messy Desk and Office
Phone Interruptions (E-Mail Interruptions)
Drop-in Visitors
Meetings
Firefighting
Procrastination
Socializing
Indecision with Paper and Tasks
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Organize Your Life
“Clutter is a pile of unmade decisions.”
Julie Morgenstein
“Organizing from the Inside Out”
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Organize Desk
• Clear your desk
– Pilemania – Eliminate clutter
– 60% of papers on desk, no value
– Save 30 secs. every 5 mins = 1 hour per day
– Save 30 mins. per day = 3 weeks per year
• Start every new task with clear desk
• New Tasks – Pull out what you need
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Organize Desk
• Organize (TRAF Method)
– T = Toss
– R = Refer or delegate
– A = Action
– F = File (Only those items we will need)
Stephanie Winston
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Best Practices
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Handle each piece of paper only once
Handle each e-mail only once
Answer mail when picked up
Don’t let things end up on your desk
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Best Practices – Quiz Question
• Two letter word that saves more time
than any other word?
• NO
• “Say no to others in order to say yes to
ourselves.”
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Best Practices
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To-Do List
– Daily: Accomplishments anticipated
• Large tasks broken into component parts
• Prioritize A, B, C; then A-1, A-2, A-3, etc.
• Set time frames
• Set Daily List at end of day for next day
– Long Range Plans and Projects
• Prioritize
• Move to Daily To-Do Lists
Keep List in Visible Location
Review before leaving office & before bed
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Simplified Method To Do List
• Write out 6 most important items to-do
• Prioritize the list from 1 to 6
• Work on Item 1 until completely done, then
Item 2, & so on…
• Rewrite the list at end of every day
• Review before going to sleep and first thing
in the morning
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Best Practices
• Know your peak performance period
– Schedule most important / most difficult
tasks
– If morning, go to work 1 hour earlier
– Hold calls, close door, avoid e-mail
– Avoid little tasks
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Best Practices – People Interruptions
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Intercept people by standing up
Walk them out of your office
Walk to their office to continue
Avoid having desk visible from door
Turn desk so no eye contact from door
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Best Practices – Phone Interruptions
• Screen calls
• Establish times for taking calls
• Bunch return phone calls in less productive
times
• Call others before lunch, before leaving
• Plan out important calls
• Do easy jobs while on phone
• Don’t interrupt someone else
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Best Practices – E-Mail
• More Polite than Phone Calls
• Multiple People Can be Copied
– Copy those Who Need to be Copied
• E-Mail is “forever”
• E-mailing across Internet, Request Reply as
Evidence of Receipt
• E-Mail provides interruptions
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Best Practices – Meetings
“Meetings are indispensable when
you don’t want to do anything.”
John Kenneth Galbraith
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Best Practices – Meetings
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Share Expectations In Advance
Schedule in advance to prepare
Distribute materials in advance
Agree upon desired products/results
Attendees List
– Hourly costs = value of meeting
– Number of People
– Know What is Expected
Attend Meetings not to Discuss Issues but to
RESOLVE Issues
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Best Practices – Meetings
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Distribute Agenda in Advance
– Objective
– Proposed Attendees
– Location
– Items to be Addressed with Time Limits
Start on time
Meeting Minutes
– Distributed 2 Business Days
– Actions Items Addressed
• Who is Responsible
• When is the Action Item To Be Completed
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Best Practices – Waiting Times
• Confirm all appointments
• Carry reading materials for wait time
• Car commuting – University on Wheels
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Procrastination
“Things that are easy to do
are easy not to do.”
Jim Rohn
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Best Practices – Avoid Procrastination
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Think on paper. Prepare thoroughly.
Gather materials and tools in advance.
Do one small thing to get started.
Salami slice the project.
Swiss cheese technique - punch hole in it.
Start at outside and move to core.
Start from center and do hardest task.
Do task that causes most anxiety.
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Best Practices – Avoid Procrastination
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Reward yourself at intervals.
Start with most unpleasant task.
Think of negative consequences if not done.
Think of benefits of completing task.
Set aside a designated time.
Don’t be a perfectionist.
Develop compulsion to finish.
Maintain fast tempo.
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Habit 7
“Sharpen the Saw”
Improving
for Success
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Habit 7-Sharpen the Saw
• To earn more, you must learn more
• Knowledge is doubling every 2 years
• To move further, you must learn more
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Renewal - Interdependence
• Habit 7 – Sharpen the Saw
– Physical
– Spiritual
– Mental
– Social / Emotional
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Sharpen the Saw – To Learn More…
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Read 1 hour per day in your field
Take speed reading course
Invest 3% of income in improving self
Rip and read – Use during waiting times
Read books by experts (see “Book List”)
– Make sure authors are successful
– Wait for paperbacks
– Read reviews
• University on Wheels
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University on Wheels
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Zig Ziglar
– Goals, See You at the Top, Top Performance…
Brian Tracy
– How to Master Your Time, Psychology of
Achievement, Maximum Achievement, The
Universal Laws of Success and Achievement
Lou Heckler – Leadership Training
Edwin Bliss – Doing it Now
Jeffrey Mayer – If You Haven’t Got the Time…
Napoleon Hill
– Keys to Positive Thinking, Think and Grow Rich
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Recommended Books and Audiobooks
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Recommended Books and Audiobooks
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Ziglar
Ziglar
Ziglar
Ziglar
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Tracy
Bliss
Wetmore
Morgenstern
Covey
Heckler
Hill
Hill
Nightgale
Nightgale
Nightgale
Mayer
Mayer
Carnegie
Buckingham
Rohn
Rohn
Rohn
Zig
Zig
Zig
Zig
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Brian
Ed
Donald
Julie
Stephen
Lou
Napoleon
Napoleon
Earl
Earl
Earl
Jeffrey
Jeffrey
Dale
Marcus
Jim
Jim
Jim
Rohn
Jim
Robbins
Robbins
Robbins
Robbins
Tony
Tony
Tony
Tony
Title
Goals
Top Performance
See You at the Top
Over the Top
How to Master Your Time
Pyschology of Achievement
The Universal Laws of Success and Achievement
Maximum Achievement
Time Power
Change Your Thinking, Change Your Future
Eat That Frog
Goals
Millionaire Habits
Creating Your Future
Doing It Now
KISS Guide to Organizing Your Life
Organizing from the Inside Out
The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People
Leadership Training (CareerTrack)
Think and Grow Rich
Keys to Positive Thinking
The Strangest Secret
Lead the Field
The Essence of Leadership
If You Haven't Got the Time to Do It Right…
Time Management for Dummies
How to Win Friends and Influence People
Know Your Strengths
7 Strategies for Wealth and Happiness
The Weekend Seminar
The Power of Ambition
Challenge to Succeed, A Philosophy for
Successful Living
Giant Steps
Awaken the Giant Within You
Lessons in Mastery
Unlimited Power
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Excellent author, excellent overview of success
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Subject
The Psychology of Winning
Book/Cassettes
6 Self-Improvement
How to Set and Achieve Your Goals (CareerTrak) Cassettes
4 Goal Setting
Canfield
Jack
The Success Principles
Book/CD
Canfield
Maxwell
Maxwell
Maxwell
Maxwell
Bach
Stanley
Clason
Solin
Orman
Orman
Orman
Orman
Orman
Kiyosaki
Ramsey
Ramsey
Ramsey
Malkiel
Bogle
Robbins
Byrne
Souza
Ben-Shahar
Shimoff
Izzo
Collins
Jack
John
John
John
John
David
Tom
George
Daniel
Suze
Suze
Suze
Suze
Suze
Robert
Dave
Dave
Dave
Burton
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Peter
Sinek
Simon
Self-Esteem and Peak Performance
Today Matters
Developing the Leader In You
Winning with People
The Five Levels of Leadership
The Automatic Millionaire
The Millionaire Next Door
The Richest Man in Babylon
The Smartest Investment Book You'll Ever Read
The Courage to Be Rich
The Nine Steps to Financial Freedom
The Laws of Money, The Lessons of Life
You've Earned It, Don't Lose It
The Road to Wealth
Rich Dad, Poor Dad
The Total Money Makover
More Than Enough
Financial Peace Revisited
A Random Walk Down Wall Street
The Little Book on Common Sense Investing
Money--Master The Game
The Secret
Become Who We Were Born To Be
Happier
Happy for No Reason
The 5 Secrets You Must Discover Before You Die
Good to Great
The Best Kept Secrets of Great Communicators:
Nine Secret Weapons to Shine Socially, Uncover
Opportunities, and Be Perceived as Smarter,
Sharper, and Savvier
Start with Why--How Great Leaders Inspire
Everyone to Take Action
Contact: [email protected] (410-281-2850)
Description
Rating
An outstanding classic by an excellent presenter
10
A good seminar on goal setting.
8
A book on all principles for success by author of
Self-Improvement
Chicken Soup for the Soul
10
6 Self-Improvement The value of self-esteem on peak performance
9
Time Management Excellent writer on variety of self-improvement
8
Leadership
Excellent book on leadership
8
Relationships
Excellent book on people skills
8
Leadership
Excellent book on leadership and various levels
9
Finances
Excellent book for young adults to manage finances
10
Finances
Interesting facts about average millionaires
10
Finances
Easy reading timeless classic from 1920's
10
Finances
Excellent overview on investing for long term
9
Finances
All of Suze Orman books are excellent & clear
8
Finances
All of Suze Orman books are excellent & clear
8
Finances
All of Suze Orman books are excellent & clear
8
Finances
All of Suze Orman books are excellent & clear
8
Finances
All of Suze Orman books are excellent & clear
8
Finances
Very interesting discussion on finances
7
Finances
Excellent, especially for getting out of debt
9
Finances
Excellent, money and living life
9
Finances
Excellent, overview on finances and money mgmt.
9
Finances
Excellent, investing and market behavior
8
Finances
Excellent, investing in index mutual funds and why
9
Finances
Excellent, reinforces all ideas & presents new ideas
9
Self-Improvement Focuses on the Law of Attraction for success. Exce.
8
Self-Improvement General rules for success with people case studies
9
Self-Improvement Study on how to be happier
8
Self-Improvement Study on what leads to happiness
9
Self-Improvement 230 wise, elderly people commonalities on life
10
Business/Ldrshp
Study of what makes great companies great
8
CD
Communications
Excellent CD program on communicating for success
10
Book/CD/iPhone
Business/Ldrshp
Excellent on leadership and strategic planning
10
Building a Better Life – Concrete Steps for Success
84
Learn Success
• Take a Successful Person Out to Lunch
• Read Books Highlighting Attributes of
Successful People
– “Think and Grow Rich” by Napoleon Hill
– “The Secret” by Rhonda Byrne
– “The Five Secrets You Must Discover Before
You Die” by John Izzo
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Be True to Yourself: Follow Your Heart
Leave No Regrets
Be Love
Live the Moment
Leave More Than You Take
Building a Better Life – Concrete Steps for Success
85
Conclusion
Building
Life––Concrete
ConcreteSteps
Steps
Success
Building aa Better
Better Life
forfor
Success
86
We Become What We Think About…
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•
•
•
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Think the Right Thoughts
Be a Winner!
Have a Positive, Proactive
and Responsible Attitude
Accomplish Your Goals
Manage Your Time
Effectively
Have a great career!
Building a Better Life – Concrete Steps for Success
87
Some Final Thoughts
Key to Time Management:
• Not finding more time but making better
use of time we have
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Some Final Thoughts
Time Manager = Life Leader
• Attitude – Proactive, Positive,
Responsible
• Set your goals
• Know your priorities
• “What is the most valuable use of my time
right now?”
Building a Better Life – Concrete Steps for Success
89
Conclusion
“The main thing is to keep the main
thing the main thing.”
Fred Smith
Building a Better Life – Concrete Steps for Success
90
Conclusion
“You can’t go back and make
a new beginning,
But you can make a new end.”
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91
Conclusion
“When you do the things you ought to
do when you ought to do them,
The day will come when you can do
the things you want to do when you
want to do them.”
Zig Ziglar
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Conclusion
“Happiness is a journey,
not a destination.”
“The Station”
Robert Hastings
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Contact Information and References
Contact Information:
Joel Oppenheimer (STV Incorporated)
E-Mail: [email protected]
Phone: 410-802-8883
REFERENCES:
• Stephen Covey – “The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People”
• Brian Tracy – “Time Power” (Book and CD’s) and “How to
Master Your Time” (6 Audiocassette Tapes)
• Zig Ziglar – “Goals” (6 CD’s)
• Brian Tracy – “Goals” (Book or CD)
• See Book List
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Contact Information
Contact Information:
Joel Oppenheimer
(STV Incorporated)
E-Mail:
[email protected]
Phone: 410-802-8883
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