September 2018
Beginner
144 pages
2h 7m
English
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CHAPTER 6 Using Your Time Intentionally
What if you were consistently able to get more of the important things done in your life and in your business every day? What would be different? Where could you be three months from now, three years from now?
Performance Time, our unique time-blocking system, will help you to allocate time to what matters most. Within just one week of applying the concepts, you will begin to see results, and you may feel more in control of your time than you have in years.
Performance Time is one of the five disciplines of the 12 Week Year. Combined with the other four—Vision, Planning, Process Control, and Scorekeeping—it is part of a proven execution system.
Everything that we achieve in life happens in the context of time. The important things will get done when we spend time on them. One of the building blocks of success is the ability to spend time on what matters most. Yet, we often hear our clients say something like, “I don’t have time for the strategic. I’m just too busy!” Consciously they’re thinking, “I want to do what I know is important,” but their actions are saying, “My time is controlled by others and by outside events.” People who are unwilling to change their actions will struggle to achieve their visions.
CONSTRUCTIVE BELIEF #1: YOUR TIME IS AT LEAST AS VALUABLE AS THE TIME OF OTHERS
Given the value, and the limited supply of time, it is interesting that almost all of us have difficulty spending it as effectively as we would like ...
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