Effective Time and Life Management Strategies
By Nkem Mpamah
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The difference between average people and highly effective people is that highly effective people are much better organised than average people. According to Peter Drucker, "Action without planning is the major reason for every failure."
With this eBook, you will learn the simple strategies to help you plan and organize yourself to achieve the most important goals of your life. Whether you are a business owner, professional, employee, student, or housewife, if you apply the time management strategies discussed in this eBook, you will become highly effective with your work, and your productivity will double.
The principles thought in "Effective Time and Life Management Strategies" are simple and you will find them easy to understand and apply. If you follow this guide, you will save at least 2 hours of time daily.
Take control of your life today by learning the most effective time management techniques to help you become highly effective in your work and career.
Nkem Mpamah
If you are the type of entrepreneur who wants to grow your business and have total control of your life; doing what you love when you want it, and enjoying the freedoms of entrepreneurship; I can help you.Over the past one decade, I have contributed to the success of several successful entrepreneurs and CEOs in improving performance, increasing revenue, and creating sustainable growth. My clients span across the United Kingdom, the U.S, Germany, Australia, China, and Nigeria.My business coaching Concepts, tools, and strategies get to the core of what Is inhibiting growth. For example; not only will working with me keep you on track of your goals and multiply your revenue, you will be able to do more of what you love that bring the most revenue back into your business also, and experience growth in every areas of your business and life.If you would like to explore how my business coaching can contribute to your success and growth, why not schedule a date on the link below for us to speak? Here’s the link - https://calendly.com/cognitionglobal/nkem-mpamah.I look forward to hearing from you.Nkem Mpamah
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Effective Time and Life Management Strategies - Nkem Mpamah
Effective Time and Life Management Strategies
The Secret of Achieving More in Less Time.
This book will teach you the easy and simple strategies you will use to free up at least 2 hours of your time for your most important outcomes. You will be able to increase performance, take control of your career, and achieve more in less time!
Nkem Mpamah
Founder and CEO
Cognition Global Concepts
www.cognitionglobal.com
Copyright 2011 Nkem Mpamah
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Table of Contents
Introduction
1. The Secret of Getting More Time
Time Saving Strategies
Your Worth
2. Plan Your Time
The Three Faces of Time
Get OUT!
Your Time Budget
How To Protect Your Plan
3. Take Control of Your Time
Prioritizing Your Tasks
Prioritizing Interruptions
Minimizing Interruptions
Identifying Time Stealers
4. Art of Achieving More in Less Time
Major Time Wasters & How to Curtail Them
Don't Worry About Perfection
Meetings
Multitasking
5. Principles of Time & Life Management
Urgent Matrix
Important Matrix
80/20 Principle
Triage
6. How To Achieve More In Less Time
Develop and Focus on Your Desire
Create A MAP Around Your Deepest Desire
Deal With Possible Obstacles in The Way
Focus On Your Outcome
Deal With Your Doubts
Take Action Now
7. Organizational Skills for SMEs
8. Making Decisions
9. Talk… Talk… Talk
Communication Blunders
Communicating More Effectively
10. Delegation and Outsourcing
Delegating
Outsourcing
11. Time Saving Tools
Personal Digital Assistant ( PDA )
Online Project Boards
RSS Feeds
Scanning and Shredding
Conclusion
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Introduction
There are too many distractions in today’s world of business that few people manage their time effectively. Cell phones, PDA’s, email, RSS News feeds, the Internet, webinars, software updates, the telephone, conference calling, and online bill pay, all created to make our work more productive, can make time much less manageable if not used wisely.
As people get lots of activities crammed into their lives in an attempt to accomplish more; scheduling, managing, and prioritizing tasks has become even more complicated.
There is a broad difference between quantity and quality when it comes to managing the use of our time. Few Small business entrepreneurs give little attention to managing their own time compared to watching the activity of their employee’s time.
Imagine the feeling at the end of the day, knowing you accomplished everything you set out to do and made the best use of your time.
Imagine having a plan for each day that actually worked!
One thing is common with humans and that is the fact that everyone has intentions of what he wants to do, be or have. But here's the thing; people fail, not because they do not have intentions. Majority of people fail because they do not carry out the intentions they have of them to achieve their dreams, goals and aspirations.
The main reason for this lack of success is the lack of mastery of Effective Time and Life Management Strategies.
This book is packaged to teach you the timeless principles and strategies you will use to achieve more in less time when applied.
Effective Time and Life Management Strategies will teach you the techniques that will help you free up time for to achieve your most important outcomes, increase performance, take control of your career, and achieve more in less time!
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Chapter One
The Secret of Getting More Time
Every day, I hear people say I wish I had more time
. They run through from task to task and event to event at light speed, trying to find ways to accomplish more.
Few people seem to accomplish far more than others in their lifetime. Benjamin Franklin was a successful author, politician, scientist, philosopher, printer, inventor, activist, and diplomat. His accomplishments are astounding. He was a scientist known for his theories and discoveries and gained the recognition of fellow scientists and intellectuals. He was a political writer and activist, and served as a diplomat during the American Revolution. He was a newspaper editor, self published author. Post-Master General, and started the first American library. His credits go on and on.
Benjamin Franklin is even credited for the statement; ‘Time is money.’ How did he find the time to accomplish all that when many people complained of I don’t have enough time
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Time is the greatest resource you will have to accomplish everything in life. Whether you want to eat, play, sleep or carry out major projects; you need time. According to Michael Fortino, an expert in time management; an average person spends 7 years in the bathroom, 6 years eating, 5 years waiting in queue, 4 years cleaning homes, 3 years in meetings, 1 year searching for things, 8 months opening junk mails, 6 months waiting at red lights, 120 hours brushing teeth, 4 minutes per day conversing with spouse, and 30 seconds per day conversing with children.
Time impacts on everything we do both in career, business and profession. Time affects moms and dads, infants and adults and the importance of time and life management is to create effectiveness in the ability of people to cut down the number of time they waste in carrying out unimportant tasks.
Effective use of time will help you focus more on the things