Time Mastery: 7 Simple Steps to Your Richest Outcomes
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What's the difference between leaders and teams that get their best results and those that don't? Turns out that it's what they focus on daily and how they design their time around their energy and the outcomes they want. Small pivots make big differences. Determining which pivots you and your team need to make is in one of the 7 simple keys you'll learn in this book.
This practical, short guide for designing your time for optimal results condenses five years of research of more than one thousand executive coaching sessions with leaders, and thousands of hours of practical learning experiences with successful authors and educators. It can be used to coach yourself and your team to make adjustments to behaviors that the best leaders and executives use to create extra ordinary results.
This quick guide is complete with self assessments to quickly pinpoint how you may be wasting your time or energy, along with practices that will guide you towards what to focus on first and how to map your time for the end result you want to achieve. You'll discover how to increase your time metabolism, why you procrastinate and what to do about it, and how to build sprints for yourself and your team to get the results you want, fast.
Each bite size chapter is designed to move you one step closer to actions that will help you design your time and manage your energy more efficiently and effectively to achieve outcomes that will lead to deeply satisfying accomplishments. Yes, that means higher profits for your organization and higher incomes for those that were responsible for creating those results.
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Time Mastery - Lynda McNutt Foster
Time Mastery
Seven Simple Setps To Your Richest Outcomes
By Lynda McNutt Foster
Copyright © 2015 by Lynda McNutt Foster
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Table of Contents
Assessment
Introduction
Step One: Focus on Your Richest Outcomes
Step Two: Create Your Non-Negotiables
Step Three: Increase Your Time Metabolism
Step Four: Map, Measure, and Monitor Your Time
Step Five: Delegate or Eliminate What You Procrastinate
Step Six: Operate in Short Sprints
Step Seven: Build in Rest and Recovery Periods
Summary
Bonus Section: Time Suckers
Assessment
Let’s start with a simple self-assessment in regard to how you currently view time.
1. I commit to completing a task or activity by placing it on my calendar for an exact date and time. T or F
2. I track and measure how long each of my activities takes and what result I have gotten from them in relationship to my highest-level outcomes. T or F
3. I, my team and my closest family members are clear about what I want to achieve this year and in the next 3 years. T or F
4. I properly prioritize my activities each day. T or F
5. I have been told I am skilled at delegating to others those tasks and activities that they can do better than I can. T or F
6. I am able to focus on my most important activities and don’t allow myself to become distracted from them very often. T or F
7. I rarely procrastinate my highest 2 priorities each day. T or F
8. I rarely feel or think that I have taken on too much
. T or F
9. I rarely feel overwhelmed
. T or F
10. I reach my highest priority goals consistently, and in a way that brings me deeply satisfying accomplishments. T or F
So, how did you do? If you marked more than 2 or 3 as false, this quick ebook can help you begin designing your time for immediate results. It won’t take months or even weeks to see that things are improving when you apply these simple steps. It will literally be a matter of days. In fact, you’ll feel better and gain more control of your time very quickly. That’s not going to be the tough part. The hardest part will be making what you learn and do common practice. I can teach you how to design your time more effectively. You are the one who is going to have to consistently do it.
Introduction
It’s not complicated. To get what you want you need to use what resources you have effectively. We say that time is something that