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Taming Time
Can you imagine knowing the secrets of taming time so that you consistently produce the results you want in your work and your life? Can you imagine consistently maintaining your focus and eliminating distractions? What about having complete confidence that you can achieve incredible results in a very short amount of time?
The most successful people in the world know exactly how to invest their time to produce the most effective outcomes both financially and socially.
They use a proven formula that never fails, combined with tried and tested strategies that underpin everything they do. Having trained people to make the most of their time for 10 years, I want to share these secrets with you and show you how you too can be in control of the time in your life.
Over the years as a coach and trainer I have had the opportunity to study the behaviours of my most successful clients.
Success
What is it they all have in common that allows them to achieve in the way that they do? How is it that these people are able to turn their dreams into reality and maintain consistent results over a long period of time? Are they more intellectual than others, do they have degrees and incredible qualifications, perhaps letters after their names?
Certainly not! As in the majority of fabulously successful people in our world, they share an attitude that has allowed them to accomplish amazing things in the shortest possible time. The majority of my successful clients know just this:
- They know what they want – their outcome
- They know why they want it – their purpose
- They know what actions to take to make it happen
- And most importantly:
They know how to control their emotions so that nothing stands in their way of achieving the results they want.
Emotions?
Yes emotions. Let me explain. Isn’t it the truth that when you are doing work you love or spending time enjoying yourself or taking part in some absorbing activity that time goes past in a flash?
Isn’t is also true that when you are struggling with the mundane, doing work that has little value or challenge for you, or spending time with people who you are not thrilled about, time goes by, often painfully, slowly.
Clock Watching
I know people who just wait around the whole week for Friday to arrive because they are either overwhelmed with the stress of their daily lives, bored to tears, or both! And isn’t this all about your emotional reaction to the time in your life.
Time is an emotional issue. Daily distractions like e-mails, web surfing, paper shuffling and fire fighting are all creating emotional reactions to the moment that eats up our time and takes us away from our most important outcomes.
That’s if we even know our outcomes in the first place! Learning how to control our emotions about what happens on a daily basis is one of the fundamental keys to managing your time effectively.
Harnessing your emotions and taking back control of your time is a given for all successful people. How you react in the moment will either lead you towards your ultimate outcomes or take you off in the other direction.
Making Choices
I know where I’d like you to be heading and I want to make sure you know too at all times. The choices you make about what to do in the moment are your investment in your future.
A simple example like eating fattening food illustrates this perfectly. If I eat a cream cake right now, will I be fatter in one hour.
Probably not, it takes a while to kick in, so I might persuade myself that it really doesn’t matter. But if I continue to eat cream cakes regularly for the next week, pretty soon I’m going to see an expanding body. If I do this over an extended period of time, will I be the slim healthy person I want to be?
No.
The same with your time. Waste it over a day which turns into weeks or months and you’ll be making that New Year’s resolution all over again, only next time you’ll be a year older and clearly none the wiser!
Precious Commodity
Time is our most precious commodity in the work place and out of it. If we don’t learn how to focus on what’s most important on a minute-by-minute basis, hours and hours slip through our fingers and blend seamlessly into days of wasted time and future regrets.
There are no rollovers. What you waste today you cannot put into a "doggy bag" to use tomorrow. Its gone and with it the possibility of everything you could have achieved but didn’t.
In my work with global organisations like BP, Nokia, Lloyds TSB and Marks & Spencer’s as well with very busy entrepreneurs, the recurring phrases I hear from individuals is “how can I get everything done, with less resources in shortest possible time?” It doesn’t matter whom you work for or with or if you work for yourself.
Every business of whatever size will expect more from you in less time. Every person who wants to combine their career with a social life, a fitness regime, parental obligations and everything else they try to fit in, often feels that they are run ragged.
No More Time...
We are all in the same boat. And there is no more physical time for any of us. In the end Einstein got up at 3am so that he could fit everything he wanted to into his life. He had on average 4-5 hours sleep. I don’t know about you, but I’m not prepared to do that. I want a life where I get everything done and still have time to play.
So I’m going to run the very same workshop that I offer to major global enterprises so that you too can learn the secrets of taking back control of your time.
I’m going to offer you a different way from simple "to do" lists which seem to procreate themselves daily. I’m going to show you how to focus on what’s most important so that you can become an incredible asset to your company, your family and to yourself.
The workshop will be in two halves. You can do the first without the second, but you cannot do the second until you have done the first. This is because the first workshop lays solid foundations on which to base your vision and your goals.
The first workshop is like creating a seaworthy vessel. For example if your vessel has holes in it where "time" slips through, you will always "leak" time. Your time will run away with you furiously trying to hold on to it. You really need to fully understand where your time is going and how to plug the holes.
Once your vessel is "time proofed" you can sail towards your dreams and outcomes knowing you will have all the time you need to achieve them.
This first very special workshop is designed to empower you to create your own unique focused living plan so that you can make more time to live the life you deserve. Whatever your reason for making more time in your life, I invite you to join me in this open workshop.
You can read more about the workshop, and book online here.
