How to Use Your Goal Planner The purpose of this goal planner is to enable you to decide exactly what you want in every area of your life, and then to help you achieve it. A central theme of Maximum Achievement is that you can have anything you want, as long as you know what...

Organize Your Work Space ONE OF THE GREAT time management tools is to work from a clean desk and in an organized work space. Just as an excellent chef cleans up the kitchen before and after cooking, you should organize your work space completely before you begin your work. One of the most successful entrepreneurs...

Invest in Personal Development THE MOST IMPORTANT thing you do to increase your value, improve your results, and make yourself more impor- tant to your business is to become better and better at the most important things you do. Self-development must be an ongoing and continuous part of your time usage every day. It is...

Read Faster, Remember More THE AVERAGE businessperson today is reading thousands of words of e-mails, reports, news stories, business informa- tion, magazine articles, and other data. To be successful today, you have to keep current with your reading require- ments. We live in a knowledge-based society, and one key piece of information can have an...

Conduct Effective Meetings FULLY 25 PERCENT to 50 percent of management time is spent in meetings of all kinds. These may be one-on-one meetings, brief meetings in the hallway or while going in and out of the office, or more formal sit-down meetings in an office or a meeting room. Unfortunately, 50 percent or more...

Manage the Telephone THE TELEPHONE CAN be an excellent servant or a terrible master—especially if you feel compelled to answer whenever it rings. To achieve maximum productivity, you must put the telephone in its place so that you do not end up a slave to anyone who dials your number. The best way to get...

Batch Your Tasks When you complete a BATCHING YOUR tasks simply mean doing similar things at the same time. There’s a “learning curve” in everything you do series of similar or identical tasks all in a row, the learning curve allows you to reduce the time required to complete each task by as much as...

Control Interruptions UNEXPECTED AND unscheduled interruptions are among the biggest time wasters in business and industry. These interruptions can be in the form of a bell going off on your computer, a telephone ringing, an SMS message coming in on your smartphone, or people just walking into your office because they need to talk. It...

Create Blocks of Time YOU REQUIRE UNBROKEN blocks of time for maximum accomplishment. The more important your work is, the more important it becomes for you to establish blocks of time to work on serious projects. You need a minimum of sixty to ninety minutes to accomplish anything worthwhile. It takes about thirty minutes just...

Overcome Procrastination IT HAS BEEN SAID that “procrastination is the thief of time.” A wise man in one of my seminars expanded on that by saying, “Procrastination is the thief of life.” Your ability to overcome procrastination and to get the job done on schedule can make all the difference between success and failure in...