Thinking Differently about... Getting More Done: Move beyond managing your time to managing your mind

By Jonathan Creaghan

Move beyond managing your time to managing your mind, and achieve more in today's fast paced "get'er done now" world! Examine the connection between how perception, thought, and time impact your behavior and getting your goals and needs achieved. Stop over thinking and get more done

• Language: English
• Publisher: BookBaby
• Release date: Jul 7, 2014
• ISBN: 9780968643280

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Introduction

"Can there be a better way? This is the underlying question that drives us. To answer this question, we look to external answers in the way of improved technology, to-do lists, emails, smart phone applications, and time management courses. They all serve a purpose, but the more our lives become increasingly fast-moving and complex, the more these answers" take over our lives rather than assist us in finding the real answer to our question. We become slaves to the very things that we hoped would make our lives easier. It is now not uncommon to see parents at their children’s sports events reacting to the buzz of the smart phone choosing to answer a text message, rather than focus all their attention on their child’s homerun. So is this truly a better way?

The answer to the question is actually not elusive or difficult to discover. It simply requires a shift in understanding — not a shift in thinking about time, or your to-do list, or what is important, but rather a clearer understanding of how we think.

If you follow your thinking to its origin, you will be able to see that your performance is actually defined by your behaviour, which is ultimately determined by your mind. With this awareness as the beginning point, it becomes clear that no real improvement to your life is possible unless you are prepared to examine the workings of the mind itself.

This understanding is where we begin. Thinking Differently® about...GettingMore Done, is the first book in the Thinking Differently® about... leadership series of books written to address the typical issues that most of us face at work and at home. Because most of these issues have to do with being human, we call this approach the Human Side of Business.

The four aspects of the Human Side of Business we examine in the series are:

• How we think — why we think the way we do

• How we behave — including our nature and how to use it to our best advantage

• How we interact with one another

• How our perception of what is happening around us and to us affects everything

Thinking Differently® about... Getting More Done examines the connection between how perception, thought, and time impact your behaviour and getting your goals and needs achieved without disconnecting from those in your life who are important to you.

This book is short and simple for a reason, you will not find heavy academic jargon that take up pages to explain, but rather, you will find language that generates clarity and understanding. You will also find practical steps that, if followed, will create real improvements in your life. We call this saving minutes to find hours within your week. Not everything in life needs to be complex and difficult to make it important and achievable.

You will read actual stories of clients who have used the ideas in the book to live more freely and generate real solutions and more connection with others.

The first part of the book delves into what part of the mind actually gets in the way of true freedom and clarity. This will be helpful for you to know so that when the time is right, you will be able to recognize its influence and dissolve its power.

The next part of the book examines where within the mind you can find incredible energy, creativity and truth and how to access this level of mind to find those hours in the week and true