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Overview

Transform your potential into reality: achieve breakthrough success, one step at a time!

· The truth about developing powerful focus and self-discipline

· The truth about setting priorities to get the right things done

· The truth about getting the help you need to achieve any goal

This book reveals 42 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for accomplishing your most important goals–whatever they are!

In this book, you learn how to identify what you really want and need to get done, and achieve the focus and discipline you need to actually get it done...how to finally get past the excuse ...

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Overview

Transform your potential into reality: achieve breakthrough success, one step at a time!

· The truth about developing powerful focus and self-discipline

· The truth about setting priorities to get the right things done

· The truth about getting the help you need to achieve any goal

This book reveals 42 bite-size, easy-to-use techniques for accomplishing your most important goals–whatever they are!

In this book, you learn how to identify what you really want and need to get done, and achieve the focus and discipline you need to actually get it done...how to finally get past the excuse “I just don’t have the time”...why your past doesn’t have to equal your future...how to become proactive and plan for faster decisions and action...how to sell your ideas and get help from others...how to nurture the right habits and environment to fuel your personal growth...how to leverage sheer common sense to do the extraordinary! This isn't “someone's opinion”: it's a definitive, evidence-based guide to getting more done--a set of bedrock principles you can rely on no matter what you want to accomplish!

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780138150488
  • Publisher: FT Press
  • Publication date: 12/18/2008
  • Pages: 177
  • Sales rank: 371,294
  • Series: Truth about Series
  • Product dimensions: 5.40 (w) x 8.40 (h) x 0.50 (d)

Meet the Author

Mark Fritz is the founder of Procedor, a company focused on two main areas: Personal Effectiveness (Leading Yourself) and Leadership Effectiveness (Leading Others). Mark provides consulting, training, and coaching/mentoring services to companies throughout the world. Mark has lived in the U.S., Singapore, Egypt, the Netherlands, Italy, Japan, and the UK, and has successfully combined best practices from around the world to create an innovative set of business tools and insights that can help businesses of all sizes be even more successful.

He is an associate of Ashridge College in the UK, co-teaching Leading Complex Teams, and a visiting professor teaching Virtual Leadership at the HEC in France, at the Instituto de Empresa in Spain, and at IFL--Stockholm School of Economics in Sweden. Mark's natural charm and personable style, enhanced by a great sense of humor, has made him a speaker of choice at company events and seminars. He is an affiliate of the prestigious CSA Celebrity Speakers and regularly speaks on Personal Effectiveness for Leaders and Virtual Leadership (Leading People at a Distance).

Mark is also the author of Time to Get Started, a compilation of his best daily thoughts from the first 18 months of writing. You can read Mark’s Daily Thoughts at www.procedor.com/daily-thought. Visit Mark at www.procedor.com

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***SLUG: TTA Getting More DonePraise for The Truth About Getting More Done

“Fritz gives you all the advice you need to focus on your priorities and get done what is really important to be successful—in life and in business.”

Stewart Emery, coauthor of Success Built to LastPreface

“I just don’t have the time!” A very common phrase that you probably say quite often and hear others say, as well. The fast pace of life today and the desire to do as much as one can means that you don’t always get done what you would have liked to accomplish. However, some people seem to get more done than others, and you never hear them say “I just don’t have the time!” To them, it is never a time problem. Instead, it is about what the time is used to accomplish. How about you?

Time management is a myth. Everyone gets the same amount of time each day, and nobody can really manage time. You cannot use 30 hours today because you are really busy and then use only 18 hours on Friday because you are going to take it easy. It just doesn’t work that way. So, you can’t manage time, but you can manage how you use it.

Is your goal to get more things done? For some, that seems to be the goal. For the successful people in the world, it is not the complete story. For the successful people, the goal is not just getting things done, but getting the right things done.

This book is all about getting the right things done.

I’ve studied how the most successful people get things done, as well as the time management gurus who have all those techniques to, as they say, manage your time better. Ihave tried and thrown away many of those time management techniques and realized that the way to get things done is never about how many of those techniques you know, but keeping a focus on what are the most important things to get done.

This book will convince you, as I have been convinced, that you cannot really manage your time, but you can manage the focus of how you use your time. You will understand that getting things done comes down to five key factors:


  2. Success—Knowing what you want provides the reason behind what you want to get done.
  3. Thought—All action begins in our thoughts first so thinking is a great way to use your time.
  4. Discipline—You get things done by disciplining yourself to do what you know you should.
  5. Teamwork—No one achieves success and gets the right things done without the help of others.
  6. Growth—The more you grow the more experience you gain to focus on the right things.

As you read this book, you too will be convinced that getting things done does not begin with time management, but FOCUS management, and then having the DISCIPLINE to do what is necessary and when it is necessary. You will no longer tell yourself, “I just don’t have the time!” Instead, you will start—from the very day you finish this book—to invest time in determining your FOCUS and then reminding yourself of that focus each and every day. Just as other successful people have done.

Here’s to you—to getting the right things done.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

Table of Contents

Preface vii

Part I The Truth About Success and Focus

Truth 1 It’s not about getting things done, it’s about success 1

Truth 2 The why needs to be greater than the how 5

Truth 3 You need to believe it to achieve it 9

Truth 4 It's focus management, not time management 13

Truth 5 If everything is important, then nothing is important 17

Truth 6 Your clarity of focus drives the action you want 21

Part II The Truth About Goals and Outcomes

Truth 7 Goals make your life self-directed 25

Truth 8 Life is about the journey and the destination 29

Truth 9 You accomplish more with an outcome focus 33

Part III The Truth About Beliefs and Character

Truth 10 Nothing is stopping you but you 37

Truth 11 Your past does not have to equal your future 41

Truth 12 The size of your beliefs determines the size of your achievements 45

Truth 13 Your attitude is really your window to the world 49

Part IV The Truth About Thinking and Planning

Truth 14 All actions begin in your thoughts first 53

Truth 15 Positive thinking pushes out negative thinking 57

Truth 16 What you learn only has power when put into action 61

Truth 17 Be proactive than reactive by thinking ahead 65

Truth 18 Planning drives faster decisions and action 69

Part V The Truth About Discipline and Habits

Truth 19 You can’t wait for the inspiration to take action 73

Truth 20 What you do today creates your future 77

Truth 21 Discipline is doing what's necessary, when it is necessary 81

Truth 22 You create your habits and your habits create you 85

Truth 23 That little bit extra makes a huge difference 89

Truth 24 People really don't fail, they just stop taking action 93

Truth 25 It is easier to create a new habit than break an old one 97

Part VI The Truth About Relationships and Communication

Truth 26 You achieve better rapport by adapting your approach to others 101

Truth 27 Remove the emotions first and then discuss the facts 105

Truth 28 You are in "sales," as you are always selling your ideas to others 109

Truth 29 Questions have more power than answers 113

Truth 30 Stories and examples make the emotional link faster 117

Truth 31 Match communication styles for a quicker responses 121

Truth 32 Listening enables better communication more than talking 125

Part VII The Truth About Teamwork and Follow-up

Truth 33 No one creates success by themselves 129

Truth 34 You attract help from others by keeping your commitments 133

Truth 35 Trust is the fuel for productive teamwork 137

Truth 36 You get the behaviors that you reinforce 141

Part VIII The Truth About Potential and Excellence

Truth 37 You can't see the picture when you are in the frame 145

Truth 38 Growth comes when you are comfortable being uncomfortable 149

Truth 39 Comparing yourself to others limits your growth 153

Truth 40 Surround yourself with the right people to fuel your growth 157

Truth 41 Pride in what you do creates excellence in what you do 161

Part IX The Truth About Doing the Uncommon

Truth 42 It is all about making common sense common practice 165

References 169

Acknowledgments 175

About the Author 177

Preface

Praise for The Truth About Getting More Done

“Fritz gives you all the advice you need to focus on your priorities and get done what is really important to be successful—in life and in business.”

Stewart Emery, coauthor of Success Built to Last

Preface

“I just don’t have the time!” A very common phrase that you probably say quite often and hear others say, as well. The fast pace of life today and the desire to do as much as one can means that you don’t always get done what you would have liked to accomplish. However, some people seem to get more done than others, and you never hear them say “I just don’t have the time!” To them, it is never a time problem. Instead, it is about what the time is used to accomplish. How about you?

Time management is a myth. Everyone gets the same amount of time each day, and nobody can really manage time. You cannot use 30 hours today because you are really busy and then use only 18 hours on Friday because you are going to take it easy. It just doesn’t work that way. So, you can’t manage time, but you can manage how you use it.

Is your goal to get more things done? For some, that seems to be the goal. For the successful people in the world, it is not the complete story. For the successful people, the goal is not just getting things done, but getting the right things done.

This book is all about getting the right things done.

I’ve studied how the most successful people get things done, as well as the time management gurus who have all those techniques to, as they say, manage your time better. I have tried and thrown away many of those time management techniques and realized that the way to get things done is never about how many of those techniques you know, but keeping a focus on what are the most important things to get done.

This book will convince you, as I have been convinced, that you cannot really manage your time, but you can manage the focus of how you use your time. You will understand that getting things done comes down to five key factors:

  1. Success—Knowing what you want provides the reason behind what you want to get done.
  2. Thought—All action begins in our thoughts first so thinking is a great way to use your time.
  3. Discipline—You get things done by disciplining yourself to do what you know you should.
  4. Teamwork—No one achieves success and gets the right things done without the help of others.
  5. Growth—The more you grow the more experience you gain to focus on the right things.

As you read this book, you too will be convinced that getting things done does not begin with time management, but FOCUS management, and then having the DISCIPLINE to do what is necessary and when it is necessary. You will no longer tell yourself, “I just don’t have the time!” Instead, you will start—from the very day you finish this book—to invest time in determining your FOCUS and then reminding yourself of that focus each and every day. Just as other successful people have done.

Here’s to you—to getting the right things done.

© Copyright Pearson Education. All rights reserved.

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