DYNAMIC SPEED READING HOME STUDY SEMINAR
Now you can double your reading speed with this exciting home study seminar and you will increase your reading comprehension and reading pleasure! You will read more in less time!
Perfect for professionals, students and busy working people!
We get more printed information thrown at us in one day than our great-grandparents saw in a lifetime. (Beyond a seed catalog and a book or two, what did they have to look at and absorb?)
Today, information is coming at us from all directions. Books, memos, periodicals, email, newspapers, reports, faxes, magazines, the Internet and more leave many buried, able to wade through just a fraction of what they need to read. Do you happen to know anyone who has a stack of stuff that they haven’t had time to go through? Maybe that’s you!
Knowledge is power. This is the Information Age. Half of what we know today, we didn’t know just fifteen years ago. The amount of information has doubled in just the last fifteen years and some experts predict it will be doubling again every two years.
Everyone has books on the shelf they’ve never read because they didn’t have the time. Some even find reading a slow, laborious task because they read slowly, their mind wanders, and they often have to go back and re-read what they just read. As a result, work suffers and grades suffer.
You cannot control the flow of information to you and if you don’t increase the rate at which you read, you are seeing less and less of what’s out there.
The average person spends about two hours per day reading. If you can double your reading speed, you can cut your reading time in half. What takes two hours can now be done in one hour.
An extra hour a day for you. Seven hours per week and 365 hours for you over the next year. That’s the equivalent of nine additional workweeks over the next year to spend time with your family, on hobbies or work on those important tasks that are being neglected.
It can be done. Easily and with a lot of fun!
Dr. Don Wetmore, the country’s leading expert on Personal Productivity, offers the most comprehensive Dynamic Speed Reading Home Study seminar anywhere. You take the lessons at your pace, on your schedule and you will double your reading speed and significantly increase your comprehension level and reading pleasure. The entire seminar can be completed in as little as four hours!
And then, imagine reading a book in one sitting! Or reading those books you bought, never read and placed on the shelf. (95% of all books purchased are never read.)
How about going home each night with all of your paperwork done, with a clean desk for the next day! What better way to insure your career advancement and success?
Or for students, imagine getting better grades in less time, with less effort!
“Probably the best seminar I have ever invested!” “Don shows you the “how to” in simple, easy to follow steps.” “I’ve never enjoyed reading so much and been able to read so much.”
What you will learn
How to easily read beyond the way you were taught in the first place
How to eliminate the blocks that cause you to read slowly
How to avoid losing concentration when your mind wanders and you have to go back and re-read the same material
Tools to maintain your new skills and to continue to improve your speed and comprehension
Multiple reading techniques for different materials
Improved memory tools
And a whole lot more!
“I can’t believe how much fun this was!” “I’ll sign up the sales staff for another one!” “I learned a lot more than I planned on. This was great!”
The “Myths” About Dynamic Speed Reading
Speed Reading a just a “skimming technique.” Not true. You will read significantly faster and read every word. You will learn how to eliminate the blocks that slow you down.
Speed Reading requires a lot of formal education. Not true. Anyone with a basic, primary reading ability can learn and apply Dynamic Speed Reading tools to double their speed and comprehension. In fact, this program is ideal for any reader 10 years or older!
Speed Reading will reduce my comprehension. Not true. In fact, it’s the opposite. Increasing your reading speed will significantly increase your comprehension and concentration. You will not only be able to read a lot faster but you will be more effective.
Speed Reading requires a lot of study and practice. Not true. You will learn simple, easy techniques and double your reading speed by the end of this unique seminar. You will get the results during the seminar as you apply the new, easy techniques that you will learn.
Speed Reading will not permanently change my reading speed. Not true. Not only will you double your reading speed and significantly increase your comprehension and reading pleasure by the end of your Dynamic Speed Reading Home Study Seminar, you will have the easy tools to permanently maintain your new skills.
Some Client Companies
Don has shared his Dynamic Speed Reading Seminar with client companies from all over, including:
ClifBar
Credit Suisse First Boston
General Electric
Genworth Financial
Howard Hughes Medical Institute
Life Tigers
Mercy College
Noble Foundation
Purdue Pharma
Sacred Heart University
Swedish Mission to the UN
Tracey Locke Partnership
Tyco Electronics
United Nations
Wyckoff Medical Center
Now you too can receive the benefits of this terrific home study seminar, at your pace and your convenience.
About Don:
Don has conducted over 2,000 public speaking presentations during the last twenty years, to audiences from around the Globe. He holds a coveted Professional Membership with the National Speakers Association.
He received his Bachelor’s Degree in Accounting from Bentley College, his Master’s Degree in Business Administration from Babson College and his Juris Doctor Degree from Suffolk University Law School. He has been a Speed Reader throughout his adult life. He walks the talk. He practices what he teaches. You will learn from a doer.
Don is a member of the faculty at Mercy College in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he has served as Assistant Professor of Business Law and Department Chair for the undergraduate and graduate divisions. Currently, he is Adjunct Professor for the Master of Business Administration program and the author of “Beat the Clock”, “Organizing Your Life,” “The Productivity Handbook” and over 100 published articles. He is frequently interviewed by major media including ABC Radio, The New York Times, USAToday, and the Dallas Morning News. He has appeared extensively on radio and television and as the host of the cable TV program, “It’s the Law.”
Dr. Wetmore created the Productivity Institute to conduct his original and unique Dynamic Speed Reading and Personal Productivity seminars for organizations from around the world. In his seminars and consulting, he teaches participants how to significantly increase their reading speed and comprehension, improve their personal productivity both on and off the job and accomplish more in less time, with less stress, for greater personal balance.
Who should get the Dynamic Speed Reading Home Study?
Anyone who wants to double their reading speed and reading comprehension now.
Professionals, staff people, salespeople, office workers, homemakers, managers, teachers, engineers, medical personnel and especially students.
What’s included?
Your own Dynamic Speed Reading Home Study Seminar on CD’s, personally recorded by Dr. Don Wetmore. Our 100-page Dynamic Speed Reading workbook and binder for seminar use and as a follow-up tool.
What is the investment?
Regularly priced at $297, the Dynamic Speed Reading Home Study Seminar is available to the first fifty purchasers for only $197! (plus $8.95 shipping and handling) 100% money back guarantee if not 100% satisfied!
“I wish I had done this a long time ago.”
YES! Send the Dynamic Speed Reading Home Study to me!
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Tuesday, June 12, 2007
Tell Us About Your Best Time Management Practices!
Tell us about your best Time Management practices.
We at the Productivity Institute would love to hear about your best Time Management practices that help you get more done in less time.
Add your comments below.
Thanks for your participation!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson Street
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
We at the Productivity Institute would love to hear about your best Time Management practices that help you get more done in less time.
Add your comments below.
Thanks for your participation!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson Street
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Workaholics: Extreme Workers
WORKAHOLICS: EXTREME WORKERS
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
In the May 23, 2007 edition of USAToday there appeared a feature article about the growing number of workaholics in our country. My experience with my clients confirms that it becoming an epidemic in the workplace where employees are given increased tasks and then achieve increased performance by paying for it out of their hides, putting in more time rather than acquiring better time management skills to learn how to get more done in less time.
About 60% of high earners work more than 50 hours each week and complain that their health and sleep suffer as well as their relationships with their spouses and children. About 35% of the workforce is giving up some vacation time to work more and more a third of those surveyed felt guilty about taking time off.
The causes for this increase of workaholics include a more competitive business environment, less job security and technology such as BlackBerries, laptops and cell phones that keep people tethered to their jobs 24/7.
The article offers some warning signs to tell if you are an Extreme Worker.
Do you find your enjoyment of social activities less?
Are you thinking or worrying about work?
Does your family complain about your work hours?
Are you the last one to leave the office?
Effective personal productivity is not working harder but getting the most important items done. You will leave undone more that you ever get done. You will only accomplish a tiny fraction of what you would like to get done. Having a goal, then, of “getting it all done” just buys stress and frustration and more hours for work and less time for you as you become ensnared in the Extreme Worker trap.
What to do? Two strategies might be helpful.
Start by setting in advance the total number of hours you wish to spend on the job. This will help you to take advantage of Parkinson’s Law which says, in part, that a project tends to expand with the time allocated for it. If you give yourself ten hours in the day to do your work it will take ten hours to complete. You will fill in that time.
On the other hand, if you chose to give yourself eight hours in the day to do your work, you will find yourself generally getting it done within that time frame. You will automatically become more effective at planning and managing your time. You will be less willing to spend time in wasteful meetings for example and will suffer fewer wasteful interruptions.
Second, take a regular, hard look at your To Do list and identify the items that can be delegated. There is a big difference between “I do it” and “It gets done.” What is more important is that it gets done. And the hardest part about delegating is simply letting go, especially for Extreme Workers.
I have had many executive coaching assignments helping clients to get free of the workaholic syndrome and as is often the case, the problem stems from an inability and unwillingness to delegate. “If you want a job done well you have to do it yourself,” leads you to the prison of an Extreme Worker.
If these ideas were helpful, we have prepared an additional article entitled, “Your Just Might Be a Workaholic”. It’s a humorous take on the Extreme Worker that you will find amusing and instructive. If you would like a complimentary copy, email your request for “might” to: ctsem@msn.com
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Copyright 1999 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication, newsletter, or on your webpage. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
In the May 23, 2007 edition of USAToday there appeared a feature article about the growing number of workaholics in our country. My experience with my clients confirms that it becoming an epidemic in the workplace where employees are given increased tasks and then achieve increased performance by paying for it out of their hides, putting in more time rather than acquiring better time management skills to learn how to get more done in less time.
About 60% of high earners work more than 50 hours each week and complain that their health and sleep suffer as well as their relationships with their spouses and children. About 35% of the workforce is giving up some vacation time to work more and more a third of those surveyed felt guilty about taking time off.
The causes for this increase of workaholics include a more competitive business environment, less job security and technology such as BlackBerries, laptops and cell phones that keep people tethered to their jobs 24/7.
The article offers some warning signs to tell if you are an Extreme Worker.
Do you find your enjoyment of social activities less?
Are you thinking or worrying about work?
Does your family complain about your work hours?
Are you the last one to leave the office?
Effective personal productivity is not working harder but getting the most important items done. You will leave undone more that you ever get done. You will only accomplish a tiny fraction of what you would like to get done. Having a goal, then, of “getting it all done” just buys stress and frustration and more hours for work and less time for you as you become ensnared in the Extreme Worker trap.
What to do? Two strategies might be helpful.
Start by setting in advance the total number of hours you wish to spend on the job. This will help you to take advantage of Parkinson’s Law which says, in part, that a project tends to expand with the time allocated for it. If you give yourself ten hours in the day to do your work it will take ten hours to complete. You will fill in that time.
On the other hand, if you chose to give yourself eight hours in the day to do your work, you will find yourself generally getting it done within that time frame. You will automatically become more effective at planning and managing your time. You will be less willing to spend time in wasteful meetings for example and will suffer fewer wasteful interruptions.
Second, take a regular, hard look at your To Do list and identify the items that can be delegated. There is a big difference between “I do it” and “It gets done.” What is more important is that it gets done. And the hardest part about delegating is simply letting go, especially for Extreme Workers.
I have had many executive coaching assignments helping clients to get free of the workaholic syndrome and as is often the case, the problem stems from an inability and unwillingness to delegate. “If you want a job done well you have to do it yourself,” leads you to the prison of an Extreme Worker.
If these ideas were helpful, we have prepared an additional article entitled, “Your Just Might Be a Workaholic”. It’s a humorous take on the Extreme Worker that you will find amusing and instructive. If you would like a complimentary copy, email your request for “might” to: ctsem@msn.com
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Copyright 1999 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication, newsletter, or on your webpage. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
Why We Divorce
WHY WE DIVORCE
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Time Management only has to do with making up a good “to do” list and following through. Right? Not really. Time Management has a lot more to do with what we are NOT doing rather than what we ARE doing.
Good Time Management requires that we get what we “have to” get done but, more importantly, what we “want to” get done.
This requires balancing our lives in all of life’s Seven Vital Areas: Health, Family, Financial, Intellectual, Social, Professional, and Spiritual. If we are out of balance on one (never mind two or three!) it is going to adversely impact on the other legs.
There will be about 2 million marriages in the country this year. Isn’t that nice? And there will be 1 million divorces. For the last twenty years, I have been a Professional Speaker and also an attorney and I have participated in over 200 divorces, representing an equal number of men and women in all age groups. (And out of the 200 divorces I have been involved in, I have never represented the party who was at fault!)
Why is marriage and divorce a Time Management issue? Well, let’s say you are 25 years old, you get married, and now, 20 years later, at age 45 you are going through a divorce, all so common in our culture. In one day in divorce court, you give up over 50% of everything you have ever worked for in your adult life through a property settlement. Now that’s good Time Management.
It is so much like the squirrel, hoarding the nuts in his tree while someone is drilling a hole in the bottom of the tree to steal his bounty, but the squirrel doesn’t pay attention to the drilling sound. He is so caught up in doing it the wrong way, he cannot find time to plan how to do it the right way.
And the cause of divorce? You typically hear reasons like money issues, “he has a girlfriend”, “she drinks to much”, etc, etc. But in my experience, 95% of all divorces are caused by one thing. A lack of communication.
The average working business professional spends, on average, just two minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or “significant other”. I don’t know about you, but I can’t get out my story let alone hear what my wife Nancy did in her day in just two minutes. (Interesting to note also that the average working business professional spends less than 30 seconds per day in meaningful communication with their children. That’s just a bit more than, “Hi. How was school? Good. Do you have homework? Go do it. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
Now, when we go back to the beginning the relationship that preceded the marriage, was the couple communicating? Sure. Why? Because they were spending time together. They were going places together, laughing together, crying together, doing this thing called “communication”. And then what happened? After the wedding “something came along”. Lots of “something’s” came along. He was busy traveling and she was busy getting her degree, and the kids, yes the kids, and like two ships in the dark, we frequently pass each other daily with only slight notice.
I am not who I was five years ago, nor are you. I am not who I am going to be five years from now, nor are you. Don’t you think that this is true about that special person in your life? Of course and without substantive ongoing communication we tend to grow apart and then one morning at the breakfast table one asks, “who is that stranger sitting across from me and who is the young pool boy she’s with…..we don’t have a pool.”
I have written a short article entitled, “Five Ideas to Improve a Marriage” to help increase the quantity and quality of time we spend with that special person. It’s no cost. To get yours, email your request for “ideas” to: ctsem@msn.com
Would you like to receive no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIME MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION LIST”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com. We welcome you aboard!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore-Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson Street
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit our Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Copyright 1999 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication, newsletter, or on your webpage. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Time Management only has to do with making up a good “to do” list and following through. Right? Not really. Time Management has a lot more to do with what we are NOT doing rather than what we ARE doing.
Good Time Management requires that we get what we “have to” get done but, more importantly, what we “want to” get done.
This requires balancing our lives in all of life’s Seven Vital Areas: Health, Family, Financial, Intellectual, Social, Professional, and Spiritual. If we are out of balance on one (never mind two or three!) it is going to adversely impact on the other legs.
There will be about 2 million marriages in the country this year. Isn’t that nice? And there will be 1 million divorces. For the last twenty years, I have been a Professional Speaker and also an attorney and I have participated in over 200 divorces, representing an equal number of men and women in all age groups. (And out of the 200 divorces I have been involved in, I have never represented the party who was at fault!)
Why is marriage and divorce a Time Management issue? Well, let’s say you are 25 years old, you get married, and now, 20 years later, at age 45 you are going through a divorce, all so common in our culture. In one day in divorce court, you give up over 50% of everything you have ever worked for in your adult life through a property settlement. Now that’s good Time Management.
It is so much like the squirrel, hoarding the nuts in his tree while someone is drilling a hole in the bottom of the tree to steal his bounty, but the squirrel doesn’t pay attention to the drilling sound. He is so caught up in doing it the wrong way, he cannot find time to plan how to do it the right way.
And the cause of divorce? You typically hear reasons like money issues, “he has a girlfriend”, “she drinks to much”, etc, etc. But in my experience, 95% of all divorces are caused by one thing. A lack of communication.
The average working business professional spends, on average, just two minutes per day in meaningful communication with their spouse or “significant other”. I don’t know about you, but I can’t get out my story let alone hear what my wife Nancy did in her day in just two minutes. (Interesting to note also that the average working business professional spends less than 30 seconds per day in meaningful communication with their children. That’s just a bit more than, “Hi. How was school? Good. Do you have homework? Go do it. I’ll talk to you tomorrow.”
Now, when we go back to the beginning the relationship that preceded the marriage, was the couple communicating? Sure. Why? Because they were spending time together. They were going places together, laughing together, crying together, doing this thing called “communication”. And then what happened? After the wedding “something came along”. Lots of “something’s” came along. He was busy traveling and she was busy getting her degree, and the kids, yes the kids, and like two ships in the dark, we frequently pass each other daily with only slight notice.
I am not who I was five years ago, nor are you. I am not who I am going to be five years from now, nor are you. Don’t you think that this is true about that special person in your life? Of course and without substantive ongoing communication we tend to grow apart and then one morning at the breakfast table one asks, “who is that stranger sitting across from me and who is the young pool boy she’s with…..we don’t have a pool.”
I have written a short article entitled, “Five Ideas to Improve a Marriage” to help increase the quantity and quality of time we spend with that special person. It’s no cost. To get yours, email your request for “ideas” to: ctsem@msn.com
Would you like to receive no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIME MANAGEMENT DISCUSSION LIST”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com. We welcome you aboard!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore-Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson Street
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit our Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Copyright 1999 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication, newsletter, or on your webpage. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
Five Ways to Not Get Promoted
FIVE WAYS TO NOT GET PROMOTED
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
“Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go;
From 7-3 it’s misery;
Hi ho, hi ho.”
Time Management has a lot more to do with “investing” our time wisely rather than just “spending it”. A lot of people are not getting the returns from their time that they desire because they are not investing their time effectively, keeping them from getting promoted and advancing beyond where they are, more rapidly. They view their job as just that, a “job”, where they exchange their time for money rather than viewing it as a “position”, a platform and a springboard to even greater success.
In my twenty years as a professional speaker, I have met many who lament that they are stuck where they are at and are not getting the advancement they desire thinking that external forces are keeping them from moving up the ladder. In some cases, this is true. In most cases, it is not. A lot of why we do not get what we want in life is because of what we are and are not doing. Time Management, you see, is not doing the “wrong” things quicker. That just gets us nowhere faster. Time Management is really about doing the “right” things.
And so, here are the five surefire ways to “not” get promoted.
1. Don’t plan your day. Go to work each day without a plan in mind. “People don’t plan to fail but many fail to plan”. Respond to whatever comes at you, the loudest voice demanding your attention. You will work “hard” but maybe not “smart”.
2. Do the minimum. Many have the attitude “they don’t pay me for that”. They do what is required of them to cover themselves and fail to recognize that in order to qualify for a raise, we have do more now than what we are already being paid to do. Like a wood burning stove, many stand at the cold stove and demand its heat without recognizing that you have to put the wood in first, start the flame, and wait a while for heat to radiate.
3. Rely on your current base of knowledge. Half of what we know today, we did not know fifteen years ago. The amount of information has doubled in the last fifteen years and it is said to be doubling every eighteen months hereafter. The world, our companies, and our jobs are changing whether we are along for the ride or not. It has been reported that within five years, 60% of us will be doing jobs that are not even in existence today. Statistically, if we continue to do what we do, the same way, within five years, most of us will be obsolete, the world will pass us by.
4. Voice your complaints. Every job has something to complain about. The pay, the hours, the location, the facility, your boss, your co-workers, the customers, etc. Since we can never be sure whether those around us are aware of our particular discontent, be vocal about what you don’t like. It will keep you and them from doing what really needs to be done and it will send out a message to the “powers that be” that maybe, just maybe, you won’t be here in a few months, so why should they give you any more money or any more responsibility? And you may not mean anything by the complaining but it does have a tendency to send out a negative message about your commitment to the organization and call into question whether or not you will be here in a few months.
5. Don’t share the credit. When something goes right, put your name on the top of the list of those who made it happen. Don’t acknowledge others’ contributions. If something doesn’t work out well, point the finger to someone else. “Victory has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan”.
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore, a full-time Professional Speaker, is one of the foremost experts and speakers on Time Management and Personal Productivity and the author of “Beat the Clock”. If you would like to receive a no cost copy of his companion article, “5 Practices to Get a Promotion”, email your request for “practices” to: ctsem@msn.com
Would you like to receive no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIMELY TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com. We welcome you aboard!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association since 1989
Copyright 1999 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication or newsletter. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
“Hi ho, hi ho, it’s off to work I go;
From 7-3 it’s misery;
Hi ho, hi ho.”
Time Management has a lot more to do with “investing” our time wisely rather than just “spending it”. A lot of people are not getting the returns from their time that they desire because they are not investing their time effectively, keeping them from getting promoted and advancing beyond where they are, more rapidly. They view their job as just that, a “job”, where they exchange their time for money rather than viewing it as a “position”, a platform and a springboard to even greater success.
In my twenty years as a professional speaker, I have met many who lament that they are stuck where they are at and are not getting the advancement they desire thinking that external forces are keeping them from moving up the ladder. In some cases, this is true. In most cases, it is not. A lot of why we do not get what we want in life is because of what we are and are not doing. Time Management, you see, is not doing the “wrong” things quicker. That just gets us nowhere faster. Time Management is really about doing the “right” things.
And so, here are the five surefire ways to “not” get promoted.
1. Don’t plan your day. Go to work each day without a plan in mind. “People don’t plan to fail but many fail to plan”. Respond to whatever comes at you, the loudest voice demanding your attention. You will work “hard” but maybe not “smart”.
2. Do the minimum. Many have the attitude “they don’t pay me for that”. They do what is required of them to cover themselves and fail to recognize that in order to qualify for a raise, we have do more now than what we are already being paid to do. Like a wood burning stove, many stand at the cold stove and demand its heat without recognizing that you have to put the wood in first, start the flame, and wait a while for heat to radiate.
3. Rely on your current base of knowledge. Half of what we know today, we did not know fifteen years ago. The amount of information has doubled in the last fifteen years and it is said to be doubling every eighteen months hereafter. The world, our companies, and our jobs are changing whether we are along for the ride or not. It has been reported that within five years, 60% of us will be doing jobs that are not even in existence today. Statistically, if we continue to do what we do, the same way, within five years, most of us will be obsolete, the world will pass us by.
4. Voice your complaints. Every job has something to complain about. The pay, the hours, the location, the facility, your boss, your co-workers, the customers, etc. Since we can never be sure whether those around us are aware of our particular discontent, be vocal about what you don’t like. It will keep you and them from doing what really needs to be done and it will send out a message to the “powers that be” that maybe, just maybe, you won’t be here in a few months, so why should they give you any more money or any more responsibility? And you may not mean anything by the complaining but it does have a tendency to send out a negative message about your commitment to the organization and call into question whether or not you will be here in a few months.
5. Don’t share the credit. When something goes right, put your name on the top of the list of those who made it happen. Don’t acknowledge others’ contributions. If something doesn’t work out well, point the finger to someone else. “Victory has a thousand fathers. Failure is an orphan”.
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore, a full-time Professional Speaker, is one of the foremost experts and speakers on Time Management and Personal Productivity and the author of “Beat the Clock”. If you would like to receive a no cost copy of his companion article, “5 Practices to Get a Promotion”, email your request for “practices” to: ctsem@msn.com
Would you like to receive no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIMELY TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com. We welcome you aboard!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association since 1989
Copyright 1999 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication or newsletter. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
Big Time Wasters
Big Time Wasters
By Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
You may be well intended about getting things done during your day at work or during your personal time, but there are big time wasters that will conspire against you to take your productive time away. It has been said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. In conducting my Time Management Seminars over the last 20 years, I have identified five Big Time Wasters that you can attack.
Poor planning. “People don’t plan to fail but a lot of people fail to plan.” Without a plan of action for your day you tend to direct your attention to the most urgent thing that may not necessarily be the best use of your time. Often, the day will be filled with wheel spinning and “busy-ness”, rather than business. When I was in the military, we referred to the “Six P’s”: “Poor planning produces pretty poor performance”. (I recall that some used a different word for “pretty”, but I’m sure you get the point.)
Procrastination. Taking the time for planning is great but what if you don’t execute on your plan? You tend to put off doing what you know you ought to be doing when there is little or no pain for not doing it and little or no pleasure to do it. Procrastinating the unimportant things has a positive value in your day. The problem for many is that they are procrastinating the important items.
Interruptions. You can do a great job of planning and not be much of a procrastinator, but interruptions will come your way and rob you of productivity. An interruption is an unanticipated event. That’s what makes it an interruption. They come to you from two sources, in-person and electronic (telephone, email, beeper, pager, etc.) Interruptions are both good and bad. There are A (crucial) and B (important) interruptions that you receive without reservation. By definition, they have value to you and are welcomed. But then there are the C (little value) and D (no value) interruptions that only take you away from being as productive as you might otherwise desire.
Failure to delegate. “If you want a job done well, you have to do it yourself”. Have you ever said that to yourself? The problem is you only have 24 hours in your day, 7 days a week for a total of 168 hours. Subtract from that the time you sleep (perhaps 8 hours per night, 7 nights per week, or 56 hours in total) and you are now down to only 112 hours each week to do everything you need and want to do. Delegation is plugging into someone else’s time stream when you don’t have the time or the expertise to accomplish a particular task. Delegation is how you can leverage your time through other people. A lot of time is being wasted by doing what ought to be delegated to others.
Attending meetings. In a typical day in the United States, there are 17 million meetings. A meeting is when two or more people get together to exchange common information. What could be simpler? Yet it surely is a major time waster for many. They are particularly wasteful and unproductive when there is no agenda or time frame and the meeting then drifts out on one tangent and then another without concrete results.
Want five easy tips to help you to stop wasting a lot of your time? Get your no cost copy now of “Stop Wasting Time”. Email your request for “stop” to: mailto:ctsem@msn.com
Receive your no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIMELY TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com.
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Copyright 2001 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication, newsletter, or on your webpage. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: mailto:ctsem@msn.com
By Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
You may be well intended about getting things done during your day at work or during your personal time, but there are big time wasters that will conspire against you to take your productive time away. It has been said that the road to Hell is paved with good intentions. In conducting my Time Management Seminars over the last 20 years, I have identified five Big Time Wasters that you can attack.
Poor planning. “People don’t plan to fail but a lot of people fail to plan.” Without a plan of action for your day you tend to direct your attention to the most urgent thing that may not necessarily be the best use of your time. Often, the day will be filled with wheel spinning and “busy-ness”, rather than business. When I was in the military, we referred to the “Six P’s”: “Poor planning produces pretty poor performance”. (I recall that some used a different word for “pretty”, but I’m sure you get the point.)
Procrastination. Taking the time for planning is great but what if you don’t execute on your plan? You tend to put off doing what you know you ought to be doing when there is little or no pain for not doing it and little or no pleasure to do it. Procrastinating the unimportant things has a positive value in your day. The problem for many is that they are procrastinating the important items.
Interruptions. You can do a great job of planning and not be much of a procrastinator, but interruptions will come your way and rob you of productivity. An interruption is an unanticipated event. That’s what makes it an interruption. They come to you from two sources, in-person and electronic (telephone, email, beeper, pager, etc.) Interruptions are both good and bad. There are A (crucial) and B (important) interruptions that you receive without reservation. By definition, they have value to you and are welcomed. But then there are the C (little value) and D (no value) interruptions that only take you away from being as productive as you might otherwise desire.
Failure to delegate. “If you want a job done well, you have to do it yourself”. Have you ever said that to yourself? The problem is you only have 24 hours in your day, 7 days a week for a total of 168 hours. Subtract from that the time you sleep (perhaps 8 hours per night, 7 nights per week, or 56 hours in total) and you are now down to only 112 hours each week to do everything you need and want to do. Delegation is plugging into someone else’s time stream when you don’t have the time or the expertise to accomplish a particular task. Delegation is how you can leverage your time through other people. A lot of time is being wasted by doing what ought to be delegated to others.
Attending meetings. In a typical day in the United States, there are 17 million meetings. A meeting is when two or more people get together to exchange common information. What could be simpler? Yet it surely is a major time waster for many. They are particularly wasteful and unproductive when there is no agenda or time frame and the meeting then drifts out on one tangent and then another without concrete results.
Want five easy tips to help you to stop wasting a lot of your time? Get your no cost copy now of “Stop Wasting Time”. Email your request for “stop” to: mailto:ctsem@msn.com
Receive your no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIMELY TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com.
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association
Copyright 2001 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication, newsletter, or on your webpage. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: mailto:ctsem@msn.com
Visions that Repeat
VISIONS THAT REPEAT
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
You spend a lot of time reliving memories from the past. Some memories are positive and uplifting and give our days a bounce, enhancing our productivity and results. Other memories are not so bright and bum us out, draining our spirits and motivation and productivity.
Memories are stored in your head after a long journey that begins with a single vision. Visions are the pictures you see in your mind. You can have positive visions or negative visions.
For example, you are going to a party Friday night. This is a party that your brother-in-law always attends and in the past you always got in an argument with him, then left the party in a huff, and generally had a bad time. So you start to visualize going to the party again on Friday and what do you see? You see yourself having a bad time at this party because, after all, you’ve always had a bad time at the party with your brother-in-law.
From those visions, those pictures, you take action. You see a confrontation coming with your brother-in-law and consistent with that image you attend the party waiting for him to trigger the arguments as he has in the past, and sure enough, your body language and words telegraph the message that you are ready for verbal combat and so the process moves forward to conflict and leaving in a huff.
These actions produce results. Your result was, “not having good time at the party”. Those results then become the memories that you re-live over and over again negatively affecting your future productivity.
Your visions direct the actions you take that create the results you realize that form the memories you re-live over and over again,
Now let’s say you would prefer to have a positive memory from this upcoming party in your mind to relive in the future for enhanced productivity. What can you do in advance to change the outcome, the lingering memory? You change the vision.
You stop visualizing having a bad time at the next party. I know, you’ve had a lot of history with bad results, but you put a new picture in your mind this time. You see yourself intentionally avoiding being in the same room with your brother-in-law and if he presses to goad you into argument, you see yourself walking away. You see yourself sitting with Aunt Sarah, whom you spend little time with and talking with her for the evening.
You repeat that vision only, over and over, and if you do enough of that, you find yourself changing your behavior, avoiding your brother-in-law and instead, spending quality time with the other guests. When you leave, you discover you have produced the result called “not having too bad a time at the party”. You recall and remember this now in a positive vein, as an uplifting memory that boosts your attitude and daily productivity in the future.
Does it all happen so easily and quickly? Unlikely. Maybe you create no new results in the near term from this new, more positive way of visioning, but if you are willing to persist and make this healthier way of thinking a consistent habit, then soon you will find it does work. Your visions will be more positive, your actions will follow the visions creating the results that form the positive memories you will re-live over and over.
Don is available to conduct his unique and dynamic Time Management Seminar worldwide, at your location, for groups of any size, from one hour up to three full days, helping you to get more done in less time, with less stress. For details, email your request now for “in-house” to: ctsem@msn.com
Would you like to receive no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIMELY TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com. We welcome you to our list!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association since 1989
Copyright 2006 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication or newsletter. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
You spend a lot of time reliving memories from the past. Some memories are positive and uplifting and give our days a bounce, enhancing our productivity and results. Other memories are not so bright and bum us out, draining our spirits and motivation and productivity.
Memories are stored in your head after a long journey that begins with a single vision. Visions are the pictures you see in your mind. You can have positive visions or negative visions.
For example, you are going to a party Friday night. This is a party that your brother-in-law always attends and in the past you always got in an argument with him, then left the party in a huff, and generally had a bad time. So you start to visualize going to the party again on Friday and what do you see? You see yourself having a bad time at this party because, after all, you’ve always had a bad time at the party with your brother-in-law.
From those visions, those pictures, you take action. You see a confrontation coming with your brother-in-law and consistent with that image you attend the party waiting for him to trigger the arguments as he has in the past, and sure enough, your body language and words telegraph the message that you are ready for verbal combat and so the process moves forward to conflict and leaving in a huff.
These actions produce results. Your result was, “not having good time at the party”. Those results then become the memories that you re-live over and over again negatively affecting your future productivity.
Your visions direct the actions you take that create the results you realize that form the memories you re-live over and over again,
Now let’s say you would prefer to have a positive memory from this upcoming party in your mind to relive in the future for enhanced productivity. What can you do in advance to change the outcome, the lingering memory? You change the vision.
You stop visualizing having a bad time at the next party. I know, you’ve had a lot of history with bad results, but you put a new picture in your mind this time. You see yourself intentionally avoiding being in the same room with your brother-in-law and if he presses to goad you into argument, you see yourself walking away. You see yourself sitting with Aunt Sarah, whom you spend little time with and talking with her for the evening.
You repeat that vision only, over and over, and if you do enough of that, you find yourself changing your behavior, avoiding your brother-in-law and instead, spending quality time with the other guests. When you leave, you discover you have produced the result called “not having too bad a time at the party”. You recall and remember this now in a positive vein, as an uplifting memory that boosts your attitude and daily productivity in the future.
Does it all happen so easily and quickly? Unlikely. Maybe you create no new results in the near term from this new, more positive way of visioning, but if you are willing to persist and make this healthier way of thinking a consistent habit, then soon you will find it does work. Your visions will be more positive, your actions will follow the visions creating the results that form the positive memories you will re-live over and over.
Don is available to conduct his unique and dynamic Time Management Seminar worldwide, at your location, for groups of any size, from one hour up to three full days, helping you to get more done in less time, with less stress. For details, email your request now for “in-house” to: ctsem@msn.com
Would you like to receive no cost Timely Time Management Tips on a regular basis to increase your personal productivity and get more out of every day? Sign up now for your no cost “TIMELY TIME MANAGEMENT TIPS”. Just go to: http://www.topica.com/lists/timemanagement and select “subscribe” or send email to: timemanagement-subscribe@topica.com. We welcome you to our list!
Dr. Donald E. Wetmore
Professional Speaker
Productivity Institute
Time Management Seminars
127 Jefferson St.
Stratford, CT 06615
(203) 386-8062 (800) 969-3773
Email: ctsem@msn.com
Visit Our Time Management Supersite: http://www.balancetime.com
Professional Member-National Speakers Association since 1989
Copyright 2006 You may re-print the above information in its entirety in your publication or newsletter. For permission, please email your request for “reprint” to: ctsem@msn.com
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