No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs

Dan S. Kennedy

Description

TURN TIME INTO WEALTH

WARNING: This book is not for the fain of heart, fawningly polite, or desperate to be liked. This book is expressively for entrepreneurs and business owners who wear many hats—those who can't resist piling more responsibility onto his own shoulders, who has more great ideas that time and resources to take advantage of them, who runs (not walks) through each day. Your time is incredibly valuable to you, and you are constantly "running out of it."

Serial entrepreneur Dan S. Kennedy delivers a fresh take on the mantra "time is money" as he shows you how to drastically re-engineer your entire relationship with time and, if applied faithfully, achieve peak personal productivity and make lots and lots of money.

Learn how to:

• ACCURATELY CALCULATE THE VALUE OF YOUR TIME—and put a meter on those consuming it
• SLAY TIME VAMPIRES—like Mr. Have-You-Got-A-Minute, Mr. Meeting, and all the other bloodsuckers
• STOP 'PRODUCTIVUS INTERRUPTUS'—master the 5 time-defense tactics
• ACHIEVE MAXIMUM PRODUCTIVITY with Psycho-Cybernetics
• THE 8 NO B.S. TIME TRUTHS never to violate despite the conspiracy against them
• Become successful beyond your wildest dreams—APPLY THE #1 MOST POWERFUL PERSONAL DISCIPLINE
• THE 10 TIME MANAGEMENT TECHNIQUES worth using. Only 10!
• FIRE YOURSELF! Replace yourself. Make MORE money from LESS time, and have MORE freedom to do BIG things!

Sujets

• Santé et bien-être
• Développement personnel
• Time Management
• Self-Management
• entrepreneur
• Entrepreneurship
• Self-help

Informations

• Publié par: Entrepreneur Press
• Date de parution: 14 novembre 2017
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781613083765
• Langue: English

Extrait

Publisher: Entrepreneur Press
Cover Design: Andrew Welyczko
Production and Composition: Eliot House Productions
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ISBN-13: 978-1-61308-376-5
Contents
Foreword by A.J. Mirabedini
PREFACE
The Author s Preface, Not to Skip: Time Under Attack, As Never Before
CHAPTER 1
How to Turn Time into Money
Can One Number Change Your Life?
Seek Leverage
The Amazing Power of Time-Valuing
NOT Being Your Own Worst Enemy
CHAPTER 2
How to Cheat Time
CHAPTER 3
How to Drive a Stake Through the Hearts of the Time Vampires Out to Suck You Dry
They re in a Meeting
Playing Trivial Pursuit?
Oh Boy, It s Soap Opera Time
Are There Other Time Vampires?
How I Stupidly Put Out the Welcome Mat for the Time Vampires and Let Them Suck Me Dry
Before You Can Win, You Have to Hate to Lose
CHAPTER 4
Stopping Productivus Interruptus Once and for All
Get Lost
Don t Answer the Phone
How NOT to Attend a Seminar
Get a Grip on Email, Texts, and Faxes
Set the Timer on the Bomb
Be Busy and Be Obvious About It
CHAPTER 5
The Number-One Most Powerful Personal Discipline in All the World: And How It Can Make You Successful Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
The Tragic Case of the Doctor Who Couldn t Tell Time
The Telling Connection Between Punctuality and Integrity
A Simple Way to Favorably Impress Others
Are Even a Person s Deepest, Darkest Psyche Secrets Revealed by Punctuality?
CHAPTER 6
The Magic Power That Makes You Unstoppable
How a Little Man Reminds Us of The Magic Power 8,000 Times and Counting
How to Make the World Hand over Just About Anything You Ask
The Inextricable Link Between Time Management and Self-Discipline
Three Steps to Consistent Successful Achievement
Success Leaves Clues
CHAPTER 7
The Ten Time Management Techniques Really Worth Using
Technique #1: Tame ALL the Interruptions
Technique #2: Minimize Meetings
Technique #3: Practice Absolute Punctuality
Technique #4: Make and Use Lists
Technique #5: Fight to Link Everything to Your Goals
Technique #6: Tickle the Memory with Tickler Files
Technique #7: Block Your Time
Technique #8: Minimize Unplanned Activity
Technique #9: Profit from Odd-Lot Time
Technique #10: Live off Peak
Bonus Technique #11: Use Technology Profitably
CHAPTER 8
Decisiveness
CHAPTER 9
Fire Yourself, Replace Yourself, Make More Money, and Have More Fun
We re Overpaying Him, But He s Worth It
Delegate or Stagnate
Going Beyond Delegation
What to Do with the Time You Liberate
CHAPTER 10
The Link Between Productivity and Association
Tapping into a Mastermind
It s on You
CHAPTER 11
Buy Time by Buying Expertise
A Coach for Everything
The Expertise Legitimacy Test
Invest to Move Up and Speed Up
CHAPTER 12
The Inner Game of Peak Personal Productivity
Psycho-Cybernetics and Getting More Value from Your Time
Creating a Peak Productivity Environment
A Clean Desk Is a Sign of a Sick Mind
Finally-The Militant Attitude
Your Rules
The Inner Game of Kingship
CHAPTER 13
Reasons Why a Year Passes and No Meaningful Progress Is Made
Majoring in Minor Matters
Breaking the Code of Extraordinarily Successful People
CHAPTER 14
Taming Tech and Surviving the Social Media Swamp
Can You Stick?
Have You Surrendered Your Capability? Your Autonomy? Your Productivity?
How Tech Takes Away Your Time-and Your Personal Capability
Join the Resistance Movement
Why You MUST Resist
The Unavoidable Two-Way Street of Success
It Can Be Done
CHAPTER 15
How to Turn Time into Wealth
On the Other Hand . . .
How Much Is Enough?
Author s Afterword
About the Author
Dan Kennedy s No B.S. Time Truths
Other Books by the Author
Recommended Companion Resources for This Book
Index
Free Offer
Foreword

By A. J. Mirabedini
CEO, GKIC, GKIC.com
I m a serial entrepreneur with years of experience running my own businesses and most recently GKIC, the organization based on Dan Kennedy s business, marketing, life experiences, and teachings. When I first arrived at its Chicago HQ, I knew I had my hands full. I had to learn about the culture, the people, the Members, and Dan Kennedy. I had read several of Dan s marketing-related books, but I had not read No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs . Why would I? After all, I had a long history of juggling multiple priorities, multiple companies, stables of clients, employees, three kids, marriage, and divorce- I certainly knew what time management was all about!
But did I? Does this sound familiar? Wake up and before anything else, grab your smartphone to catch up with the world. Check emails, Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, CNN, ESPN. Before you know it, you ve got your first text of the day and you ve barely gotten out of bed! You rush to the bathroom-with your phone. In the shower, you reflect on the email you should have waited to read until later, you wonder if your text has been answered. You multitask all the way to work, talking, texting, reading, maybe writing, maybe even Skyping (hopefully while being driven by somebody else or riding the train or subway). It s now just 8 A.M . The rest of the day is only more intense, and you and your time are spread thin. I can see your head nodding in agreement. We entrepreneurs are a time-starved group in a time-starved society. The entire day is spent in what Dan calls The Maelstrom. At its end, there s not enough done, stress, failure. Guilt, too; our children raising themselves, our spouses having to make appointments with us and nag to get us to keep them. Vacations? Working, but with a drink in hand.
My early days as the new CEO of GKIC were spent as I just described. I quickly noticed something very interesting and, at first, very annoying. I could not text, email, instant message, Skype, or even call Dan Kennedy, the man the entire business and membership organization revolved around. I had no idea what his favorite restaurant was because he didn t post photos to Facebook of his veal piccata or, for that matter, of his wife, their activities, or even the last harness horse race he drove in and won. Nothing. I had to FAX him if I wanted to communicate. Fax?! It was as though the man was inside a vault, closed from the world, and from me, the CEO. How could he? Why would he? Then I read No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs .
It was as if he had written the book for me. In his own No B.S. way, Dan shredded my flawed approach to time, showed me the holes in my life that bled time, and challenged me to take real control of my time. It was a game changer and still is.
Legions know of Dan s mastery of direct response advertising and marketing. Many know of his leadership in the field of information marketing. His entire No B.S. book series has earned enthusiastic praise from hundreds of thousands of readers worldwide. But what most overlook is that none of this would be possible without the discipline and structure he uses to manage his time. Dan creates year-long schedules cast in stone. He accounts for his minutes as the sources of his wealth. He reads more than anyone I know, and he plays as much as anyone I know. His methods are unorthodox. He is a renegade. Yet he is not alone. In fact, an ever-growing number of our own GKIC Members in a dizzying variety of businesses and professions adopt these methods to literally save their own lives by regaining their time.
Being the CEO of GKIC is not an easy job, and I m sure you don t have an easy job, either. There is so much to do, but now I am able to do it AND read more, father more, and take better care of my health. I am recently married again, too. I m frankly far from Dan Kennedy s level of time mastery, but I m also far from the frenzied, stressed out, time-starved CEO that I once was. I refer to sections of this book often, and share the renegade wisdom with my associates, family, and friends. I m confident you ll feel the same way.
My mission is helping as many open-minded entrepreneurs as possible to get a lot more of what they really want from their businesses and their lives. Getting you to take this book seriously is a good step in that direction.
-A.J. Mirabedini
A.J. Mirabedini has a diversified background in starting, developing, and assisting small businesses and mid-sized companies. He is the CEO of GKIC, the leading association of marketing-oriented entrepreneurs, business owners, and private practice professionals in the world. A SPECIAL OFFER from GKIC appears on page 241. You can also visit https://GKIC.com .
PREFACE

The Author s Preface, Not to Skip
Time Under Attack, as Never Before
It gets late early out here.
-Y OGI B ERRA
I t s a special kind of terrorism. The unrelenting, sometimes violent assault on your time, from all directions, every waking minute, even when you sleep! These desperate times demand extreme measures.
Wimps beware! This book is not for the faint of heart, fawningly polite, or desperate to be liked. It is, I hope, the hardest-nosed, most pugnacious, toughest-minded, most brass ballsy and brass knuckles material about the subject of TIME you have ever encountered.
Hopefully, you have picked up this book because you are an entrepreneur, your time is