Happy Halloween :D Everybody :D
Now for some nightmarish business talk about time management
In the book NO B.S Time management for Entrepreneurs.
Dan Kennedy delivers powerful jabs and hooks to our notions of time management.
In the book Dan brings out to the light "Time Vampires".
As quote from Derek Sivers wonderful summary of the book:
"Time Vampires love meetings, because a bunch of blood-rich victims gather in one place at one time. It's like a buffet."
And recently ABS-CBN news published this article about the lost of business etiquette in our modern times.
"Perhaps you have experienced being interrupted in the
middle of a meeting when a phone suddenly goes off and
someone has to excuse himself."
Ain't that annoying.
And the article further drives the point.
"When attending interviews, it becomes common practice for
applicants to cancel, reschedule or arrive late using traffic as
the common excuse. Dressing up to impress the interviewer
becomes less common as the boundaries for proper
business attired becomes blurred."
As a remedy Dan recommends:
Self-discipline is the magic power that makes you virtually
unstoppable. Self-discipline is MAGNETIC. And self-
discipline aimed and applied at a particular thing, as I do to
writing, as Pincay does to fitness, is quite literally a magic
power. When you focus your self-discipline on a single
purpose, like sunlight through a magnifying glass on a single
object, look out! The whole world will scramble to get out of
your way, hold the doors open for you, and salute as you
walk by. It takes tremendous self-discipline to productively
allocate and invest time and to stick to your intentions.
Further reading:
Is business etiquette dead? by Armando Bartolome
http://www.abs-cbnnews.com/business/11/01/14/business-etiquette-deadNo B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs - by Dan S. Kennedy
https://sivers.org/book/NoBSTimeThought to ponder:
"My life is one long obstacle course, with me being the chief obstacle." -JACK PAAR
Workshop:
1) Who and what are the Time Vampires in your life?
2) What are your goals? Are you achieving/ working towards your goals, or at other people's goals?
The time vampires' goals?
3) Are you effectively delegating tasks that can free you more time to focus on what you do best? Automating them?
4) Do you have a progress for tracking progress? Or "gamifying" your way to your goals keeping top scores to beat?
5) What are your thoughts about Time Management? What books have you read about it? What are your experiences with it?
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