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1. |  What To Do When There's Too Much To Do By: Laura Stack Publisher: Berrett-Koehler Publishers Publication Date: 02-JUL-2012 Insert Date: 05-JUN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: What To Do When There's Too Much To Do Look at your to-do list. It’s ridiculous. You can’t get all that done. You’re already at capacity. And it probably doesn’t even list every single thing you need to do. The last thing you want to do is more. As a skeptical audience member once told author Laura Stack before a presentation, “I don’t want to hear a productivity consultant telling me to do more with less. I want to do less and achieve more.”
This is exactly what Stack offers. You’re never going to save time and increase efficiency by adding more to your bloated list. You need a system: a comprehensive approach that will enable...
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2. |  By: Florian Rustler; Tony Buzan Publisher: For Dummies Publication Date: 05-JUN-2012 Insert Date: 07-MAY-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Mind Mapping For Dummies
Unlock your brain's potential using mind mapping
Mind mapping is a popular technique that can be applied in a variety of situations and settings. Students can make sense of complex topics and structure their revision with mind mapping; business people can manage projects and collaborate with colleagues using mind maps, and any creative process can be supported by using a mind map to explore ideas and build upon them. Mind maps allow for greater creativity when recording ideas and information whatever the topic, and enable the note-taker to associate words with visual...
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3. |  Own YOUR Success: The Power to Choose Greatness and Make Every Day Victorious By: Ben Newman Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Publication Date: 04-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 08-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Own YOUR Success: The Power to Choose Greatness and Make Every Day Victorious
A proven system for transforming challenges into triumphs
What if you could make each and every day victorious by focusing on daily activities rather than obsessing over results that you can't control? Based on author Ben Newman's popular program, Own YOUR Success gives you the power to make each day a triumph. The most successful people find great success when they focus on having a passion for the process. The key: make today victorious regardless of the obstacles that come your way. Figure out what fires YOU up without exception and ignite that passion so that you can routinely create...
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4. |  Where Did I Put My Keys?: Six Essential Skills for a Stellar Memory By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 02-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Where Did I Put My Keys?: Six Essential Skills for a Stellar Memory
Would you like to remember things more easily? Would you like to stop waking up in the middle of the night, suddenly thinking of something? Would you like to relieve your brain of the strain of tracking reminders? Now you can! Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, describes her six keys to improving your memory:
Stop being so absent-minded, learn retention techniques, and create reminder systems.
Make memory, daily, and category lists to record everything you need to do.
Read quickly and maintain concentration on the words.
Recognize signs of brain overload...
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5. |  By: Phil Olley Publisher: Pearson International Publication Date: 14-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 02-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Result
You’re only as good as the results you deliver! If you’re a busy, ambitious person you will know that, despite the sheer volume of `stuff ’ that’s thrown your way every day, it’s the final result you actually deliver–not how you get there–that makes the big impact and really matters. This book will show you how to streamline the result your after, so you can deliver more, more effectively and more efficiently. This book promises to revolutionise the way you approach work and life to help you cut straight through the noise and distraction and strategically analyze every...
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6. |  By: Daniel Browne Publisher: Pearson International Publication Date: 14-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 02-APR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Energy Equation
Energy is the fuel that drives you. The Energy Equation explains how we all have the potential to get 15-19 hours of fully-energised waking hours from our day, and shows us just how to achieve it. It determines the speed at which you get things done, the results you achieve, your ability to maintain peak performance and how successful you are. Drawing on both the latest scientific research and ancient wisdom, The Energy Equation delivers a set of powerful techniques you can put to work to maximise that vital fuel. This book holds the key to greater vitality,...
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7. |  Productive Reading Strategies: Organizing and Tackling Your Reading Pile By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 27-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Productive Reading Strategies: Organizing and Tackling Your Reading Pile
Do you have too much to read and too little time? You'll benefit from these reading techniques, designed to boost your reading productivity! Getting through your reading tasks more quickly will free up time for other priorities. You'll learn from Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, how to:
Apply a five-step process to help you become a more efficient reader.
Recognize signs of brain overload and get your mind focused again.
Get absorbed in your reading and achieve a state of "flow."
Find some alternatives to reading.
Organize your reading and tackle the pile.
If you...
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8. |  The Productivity TIP System: Organizing Your Time, Information, and People By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 24-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Productivity TIP System: Organizing Your Time, Information, and People
This Productivity Pro TIP eBook focuses on improving your personal productivity by organizing three critical areas:
Time
Information
People
This eBook is written for anyone responsible for improving personal productivity---in yourself or others. Whether you're a corporate worker, a small business owner, a government employee, or a stay-at-home parent, this series will help you improve your productivity with specific, actionable, practical TIPs for success.
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9. |  Organizing Your Office and Your Life: Clear the Clutter and Your Mind By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 22-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Organizing Your Office and Your Life: Clear the Clutter and Your Mind
Do you have the "Depression Mentality"? Are you tidy but disorganized? Do you have your organizing system in your head? If so, you need the help of bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro. Laura will help you truly get organized at work and home, so you can retrieve information quickly. You will learn how to:
Create the eight different types of files.
Apply the six principles of filing to your system.
Prevent the "to be filed" pile from overtaking your office.
Finish what you start and complete short tasks quickly.
Stay on top of things with a maintenance...
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10. |  The 6-D System: Processing Paperwork, Email, and Voicemail By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The 6-D System: Processing Paperwork, Email, and Voicemail
Do you process information quickly or let it pile up? Do you have piles of paper on your desk and piles of files in your computer? Bestselling author Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, will use her proprietary 6-D System to show you how to manage information. You'll learn to quickly process paper, email, calls, and information through your system as soon as it crosses your desk. You'll learn to:
Move information through your system quickly;
Assign and track tasks for others;
Take three-minute actions on items;
Specify a date and "tickle" an item to complete it...
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11. |  Maintaining Energy During the Day: Beat the Exhaustion and Be More Productive By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 19-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maintaining Energy During the Day: Beat the Exhaustion and Be More Productive
It's hard to be productive when you want to put your head down on your desk and take a nap. In this eBook, Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro, author of The Exhaustion Cure, will guide you in making the behavior changes necessary to give you vitality and productivity every day!
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12. |  Becoming Self-Disciplined: Make Yourself Do What You Should Do, Even When You Don't Feel Like It By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 13-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Becoming Self-Disciplined: Make Yourself Do What You Should Do, Even When You Don't Feel Like It
You are persistent in completing your high priority tasks without getting sidelined by menial activities? Do you work hard every day or only when you're in the mood? Do you have a set of rules for yourself that govern your behavior and activity? You'll learn to correct and regulate yourself for the sake of continuous improvement and personal productivity. You'll exercise restraint over your own impulses, emotions, and desires. And you'll realize that working on the right task doesn't always mean working on the fun task.
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13. |  The Complete Idiot's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, 2E By: Michelle Tullier Publisher: Alpha Publication Date: 04-SEP-2012 Insert Date: 12-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Overcoming Procrastination, 2E
Everyone procrastinates from time to time. But when putting things off becomes a habit, it can be debilitating and have devastating effects. Clear, concise, and highly usable, The Complete Idiot's Guide ® to Overcoming Procrastination, Second Edition, will help anyone who has a hard time getting things done - from the occassional procrastinator to the worst of the worst. This new edition is more streamlined and written to give readers strategies they can apply right away.
Part 1 starts with key insights on why we procrastinate, how our surroundings (and our brains) affect our tendency...
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14. |  For Road Warriors: How to be Productive While Working Out of a Suitcase By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 11-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: For Road Warriors: How to be Productive While Working Out of a Suitcase
Laura Stack flies over 100,000 miles a year as a professional speaker and as the 2011-2012 president of the National Speakers Association. Although not everyone has the natural ability to live out of a suitcase or do business from a laptop, with a little practice, you can learn to love your travel time. In this eBook, you'll find out how to be at your productive best while traveling. You'll learn how to take advantage of airplanes, rather than letting them take advantage of you. And you'll feel ready...and we dare say excited...for your next trip.
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15. |  Express Elevator to Success: To Heck with That Corporate Ladder! By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 01-MAR-2013 Insert Date: 11-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Express Elevator to Success: To Heck with That Corporate Ladder!
If you're tired of climbing the corporate ladder, may we suggest that you take the elevator instead? SuperCompetent productivity habits can take you off that old rung-by-rung advance and push you ahead so fast that you won't even have time to notice that glass ceiling as you pass through.
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16. |  Tackling Timewasters: Pleasing, Perfectionism, and Procrastination By: Laura Stack Publisher: The Productivity Pro Publication Date: 15-FEB-2013 Insert Date: 06-MAR-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Tackling Timewasters: Pleasing, Perfectionism, and Procrastination
Do you have a case of the "got-a-minutes"? Can you say no to improper requests? Do you know how to recognize a timewaster when you see one? Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, is ready to help you recognize timewasters and eliminate them from your day.
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17. |  Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More By: Richard Koch Publisher: Nicholas Brealey Publishing Publication Date: 25-FEB-2005 Insert Date: 12-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Living the 80/20 Way: Work Less, Worry Less, Succeed More, Enjoy More
From the man who energised legions of people with the 80/20 phenomenon comes a proven, practical programme for anyone who wants to achieve extraordinary results without extraordinary effort. With his first mega-bestseller, The 80/20 Principle, Richard Koch applied a century-old economic principle 80 per cent of results come from 20 per cent of our efforts to show companies how to drive business performance. The 80/20 Individual showed how to release the potential of the 80/20 principle in the workplace. Living The 80/20 Way applies Koch’s less is more and more with less ideas to your best...
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18. |  By: François Paul-Cavallier Publisher: Eyrolles Publication Date: 24-OCT-2008 Insert Date: 05-FEB-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: La mémoire des 5 sens
Présentation
Cette méthode permet d'accroître sa capacité de mémorisation. Le principe en est totalement original car il s'appuie sur les 5 sens. En effet, chacun fait appel à son expérience sensorielle pour mémoriser les choses, et chacun privilégie certains sens sur d'autres, généralement à son insu. Aussi, pour bien retenir quelque chose, il faut commencer par découvrir la manière que l'on a de percevoir le monde. Ensuite, il s'agira de se mettre en état de percevoir ce que l'on doit mémoriser, donc de mobiliser ses sens prédominants.
Ce petit guide explique simplement le...
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19. |  Get Productive!: Boosting Your Productivity And Getting Things Done By: Magdalena Bak-Maier Publisher: Capstone Publication Date: 28-AUG-2012 Insert Date: 31-JAN-2013 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Get Productive!: Boosting Your Productivity And Getting Things Done
Rewire your brain and overcome the 20 key time drains that diminish productivity
For anyone who's felt valuable time frittered away in checking emails or answering wrong phone numbers, or listening to a coworker giving you a minute-by-minute account of their previous night's date, help is finally here. Your time is, indeed, your own. And this handy guide, written by a leading executive coach, shows you how to retool your brain, reclaim your schedule, become a master of each minute, and make yourself more productive.
Using a method that is intuitive, easy to remember, and simple to use,...
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20. |  By: Infinite Ideas Publisher: Infinite Ideas Publication Date: 14-FEB-2012 Insert Date: 25-DEC-2012 Slots: 1.0 | Overview: Maximize your time
Is your time your own? Are you stressed out by not being in control of your life? Could you achieve so much more if you just had more time? Do you consider time to be your enemy? If you answer "yes" to any of these questions then MAXIMISE YOUR TIME! by Ronald Bracey provides the perfect answer. Packed full of useful tips and practical guidance, and written in an entertaining, easy-to-read style, this book shows you how to master time and ensure that you get the most out of each and every hour. Topics covered include: Making Time Your Friend; Changing – Today!; Working Smarter, Not Longer;...
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