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Issue #61 Date: August 27th, 2002
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=> Publisher's Corner
=> Feature Article
=> Review: Products or Services
=> Inspiration
=> Special Feature
=> Hot Tip
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=> Reader's Corner
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Publisher's Corner
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Hi {FIRSTNAME} and welcome to today's issue of Keeping in Touch.
A big, warm 'hello' to all our new subscribers.
There are so many different ways that our time can be used in
the course of the day. This is especially true if you haven't
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sources. Set aside a certain time of day for doing that kind
of research and be sure to set a time limit.
Martin Avis wrote our Feature Article, Time in a Bottle. I'm
sure you've all felt that the 24 hours in some days just are
not enough to do everything that needs doing. You will be
surprised to find out how important regular breaks during the
day are to your health and overall well-being not to mention
productivity.
Our Special Feature is brought to you today by our own Cindy
Jameson. Cindy has done an excellent job of covering all the
bases in How To Attract Everything You Want In Life.
Have a great day {FIRSTNAME} and keep on smiling.
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Feature Article
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Time in a Bottle.
© Copyright Martin Avis, 2002
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"If I could save time in a bottle." Jim Croce spoke for
all of us when he sang that line over a quarter of a
century ago.
How many times have you said to yourself, "I wish I had
more time!"?
We all feel that way. Twenty-four hours in a day just
aren't enough in twenty-first century lives.
The lack of sufficient time is one of the greatest
causes of stress in our lives today.
* Not enough time to get your work done
* Not enough time to maintain your home
* Not enough time to enjoy your family
* Not enough time to have a family
* Not enough time to plan for the future
* Not enough time to enjoy the present
* Not enough time to relax
* Not enough time to ...
Fill in your own blank.
And yet, we are so often guilty of wasting the one
commodity that we all yearn to have more of.
I heard on the news this morning that scientists from
the British Medical Association have been conducting a
study into lifestyle and health. They have reported
that people who work over 60 hours a week, and those
who regularly deprive themselves of sleep are twice as
likely to suffer heart attacks.
Is that surprising?
Nobody can tell you how magically extend each day by a
few hours, but there are plenty of strategies that you
can easily use to make better use of the twenty-four.
The term 'Time Management' is very dangerous. It lulls
us into a false sense of security, thinking that we
just have to follow a few rules and time will somehow
manage itself.
It won't.
The only management that can have any affect on how
your own time is used is self-management. You are in
the driving seat - it is time to take hold of the
controls.
In this short article, I will discuss two strategies
that can seriously improve your working day. There are
many others, but introduce these ideas into your life
first and you will be on the right track.
First, realize that you are not a clock that ticks
perfectly until it stops. People are more like
batteries that slowly wear down.
Research shows that the human brain can only work at
100% efficiency for about ten minutes. After that,
concentration gradually declines until after about half
an hour it is below 50%. At 45 minutes it goes
completely.
Yet how often do we push ourselves to work on complex
problems for hour after hour?
The same research demonstrates that a ten-minute break
is sufficient to recharge the battery to 100% again.
So work smart. Schedule regular breaks every 30-40
minutes. Make a cup of coffee (or preferably herbal
tea), visit the restroom, even read your emails. So
long as your brain is able to completely detach from
the job in hand, it will return to the task firing on
all cylinders.
By the same token, most people function at close to
100% efficiency in the mornings, but start to decline
rapidly after lunch. The food you eat at lunchtime does
have an effect (high carbohydrate food is the worst,
high protein the best) but the problem is not just food
related.
It is far better to schedule 'thinking' work for your
best hours (9am - 1pm) and reserve the afternoons for
non-vital meetings, dealing with paperwork, filing and
planning,
Secondly, become aware.
The very first thing you can do is to become aware of
where your day leaks. If time is in a bottle, nobody
remembered to put the cork in. Time leaks out of our
lives so secretly that few of us notice where the leaks
are.
Sealing up just one or two leaks can slow that flow
down dramatically.
Take a good hard look at what you do for the next
couple of days. Don't try to make any changes - just
note what you are doing and how you feel about it.
Look for external leaks as well as internal ones.
Are you frequently interrupted? The phone, email,
colleagues and other distractions don't mean to mess up
your day, but more often than not they do.
About seven years ago I did a survey in a large
advertising agency to find out what people had to deal
with before they got any work done. The average person
had this lot to contend with:
4 genuine business letters
12 pieces of junk mail
18 phone calls (the highest was 63!)
8 emails (email was in its infancy, these were mostly
internal)
2 internal meetings
1 sales visitor
Earlier this year I did the same exercise. Junk mail
and phone calls had gone up slightly, but emails had
rocketed - the average was 37 per day and the highest
236!
That is a lot of wasted time.
Once you become aware of all the leaks in your life,
you can set about scheduling them time of their own.
Nothing will stop them from happening, but you can
control when and how you deal with them.
For example, if you get a lot of emails, turn off the
facility in your computer that notifies you each time a
new one arrives. This is a huge thief of time. The
overwhelming temptation is to check each email as it
comes in - ruining your concentration for whatever else
you are doing.
When you need your regular concentration-replenishing
break, check your emails then - and deal with the most
urgent.
Phone calls can be incredibly distracting, but you can
at least control the ones you make. Jot down a few
brief notes about what you want the call to cover, and
stick to them. Don't get too sidetracked. Again, make
your calls in your 10-minute recovery time.
For incoming calls, if you have an answer machine, turn
it on when you are trying to concentrate. Always return
the calls in your ten-minute recovery time and you will
rarely offend anyone. Don't overdo this, though. Only
use it when you really have to think without
distractions.
As you can see, there are things that you can do to
make your day easier. These are just two simple
strategies that can help you make the change from being
managed by time, to managing yourself.
"Time is free, but it's priceless. You can't own it,
but you can use it. You can't keep it, but you can
spend it. Once you've lost it, you can never get it
back." Harvey Mackay.
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Martin Avis is a management and training consultant.
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Inspiration
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The most successful people in our society think the
furthest into the future. They are willing to make
sacrifices in the short-term in order to enjoy greater
rewards in the long-term.
Brian Tracy
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"When you get in a tight place and everything
goes against you, till it seems as though you could
not hold a minute longer, never give up then, for that
is just the place and time that the tide will turn.
Harriet Beecher Stowe
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The finest gift you can give anyone is encouragement.
Yet, almost no one gets the encouragement they need to
grow to their full potential. If everyone received the
encouragement they need to grow, the genius in most
everyone would blossom and the world would produce
abundance beyond our wildest dreams.
Sidney Madwed, Poet and Philosopher
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Special Feature
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How To Attract Everything You Want In Life!
by Cindy Jameson
How many times have you heard "Your attitude is everything'?
Change your attitude and you can change your life. It's nothing
new. Yet, how many people are actually applying it?
Have you ever noticed that on days when you're feeling down,
things have a way of going all wrong, but on days when you're
feeling great, every thing seems to fall right into place?
Researchers are finding that is more than just coincidence.
There's a direct collation to the positive and negative energy
that we project.
Even doctors are starting to believe it. If a patient is feeling
low, they won't operate. Do you find yourself getting sick when
you're overly stressed?
I put it to the test about a year ago. When I was working at my
'job' it seemed like I always had more month at the end of my
money. Ever experience that?
I changed my attitude and relaxed. I guess you could say I had
faith that every thing would work out. Every morning I'd say "I
always have more than enough money to pay my bills on time."
Guess what? At the end of that month, I did! I really can't
explain it. For some reason, I had more money at the end of the
month.
Unfortunately, life happens and I didn't stick with it. Why do
we focus on the negative so much more than the positive? Is it
just easier to think the worst or are we trained at an early age
to think negatively?
The more we worry and focus on what we don't have, that's what
we get. More of the bad stuff. We are attracting negative
energy. No wonder most people are in a constant state of panic.
What can we do about it? Here are 10 steps to attracting more
of the positive energy to us for a better life and happiness.
1. Focus on what you want, not on what you want to avoid. If
you focus on always not having enough money, that's what
you get. Put your feeling and thinking on always having
enough or more than enough. (That doesn't mean, go spend
more!)
2. Write a list of 10 good things about yourself. What are you
good at doing? Are you good at golf, cooking, fixing things,
your job, etc.? What do you like about yourself - your hair,
eyes, smile, you're honest, fun, etc.? Then read this list
the first thing each morning. You'll start the day feeling
good about yourself.
3. Make a list of what you are grateful for. How about waking
up! As long as you're breathing, there's hope. Are you
grateful for your family, friends, a sunny day, etc. Develop
an attitude of gratitude. Be thankful.
4. Forgive yourself. We all screw up and make mistakes once
in a while. It makes you human, so learn from it and move
on.
5. Focus on your successes. Celebrate the pound you lost, not
the 19 more you have to lose. Did you give a good presen-
tation? Focus on that, not the 5 you did badly. Make a list
of your accomplishments, however small or large, and focus
on those. Recall them often and how it made you feel. You'll
be more apt to repeat the good stuff.
6. Pat yourself on the back daily. Whether you found a shortcut
to work or exercised that day, find something to
congratulate yourself on. Because 'feeling successful'
instantly creates positive energy and confidence.
7. Write down your goals. Short and long term. You do have
goals, don't you? If not, get some and write them down.
Goals give you something to strive for and look forward to.
8. List 5 reasons why you'll succeed at your goal. This makes
obstacles seem smaller and easier to overcome. Picture (see)
your goal as if you've already accomplished it. How does
that make you feel? Relive that feeling often and you will
succeed.
9. Smile and laugh everyday. Smiling puts you in a positive
frame of mind and laughing reduces stress and makes you feel
good. Try this - tilt your head back and looking up, put a
great big grin on your face. Now, without changing anything,
try to get angry or depressed. Hard to do when you're
grinning from ear to ear, isn't it? Added benefit, you're
more creative when happy.
10. Do something for someone else. When you help someone else,
you take the focus off your problems and focus on them.
Plus, you'll feel better about yourself for giving to
others.
Do these 10 steps on a daily basis and watch your life turn
around. You'll start attracting what you want in your life like
a magnet. Go ahead, do it for at least a month. If nothing else,
you'll be a lot happier and more pleasant to be around!
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