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Getting Organized
From The Inside Out
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Books Referenced During This Presentation Are Listed
Below:
If you digested the information
provided during my's workshop and still hunger to learn
more, books mentioned during the
presentation that you may find helpful are listed below. Click on the image to learn more about
each book at amazon.com.
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| Time Management |
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"Putting off doing what counts most to you now until you
have 'more time' is like saying you can't go on a diet until you lose
some weight." (p. 46) |
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"Essentially, just as a closet is a limited space into
which you must fit a certain number of objects, a schedule is a limited
number of ours into which you must fit a certain number of tasks. When
you start thinking about it this way, time isn't so tangible after all.
In fact, each day is simply a container, a storage unit that has a
finite capacity. You can only fit so much into it." (p. 39) |
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"Identifying and prioritizing our life values is the first
step in developing a life purpose, a process that may be hte most
important work we do in our life." (p. 24)
"It's a good idea to quickly review your personal and business values
and goals every day. Without this frequent reminder, it's easy to lose
focus and become reactive. This leads us to working on other people's
agendas rather than on our own." (p. 87) |
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| Getting Organized |
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"Walk into any kindergarten classroom in the world, and you
will behold the perfect model of organization. Think about what makes
it work.
First, the room is divided into activity zones...Second, it's easy for
the child to focus on one activity at a time. Each zone is well defined
and fully self-contained...Third, everything needed for each activity
is right there at hte child's fingertips...Fourth, Every item has a
clear, well-labeled home in a container that is the perfect size to
hold it...Fifth, and most important...A child can walk into that
classroom, look around, and decide what to do and where to do it based
on a set of clearly defined cues." (pp. 60-61) |
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"Chronic disorganization is disorganization that has a long
history, undermines one's quality of life on a daily basis, and
recurs." (p. 6) |
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| Personal Dvlpt |
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"Whoever we are, we make our habits and then our habits
make us-which happens so subtly that we remain unaware of the process.
The bindings of our habits are too small to be felt until they become
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"Over time each of us becomes more and more aware of who we
really are. . . . Some of us identify our talents accurately enough but
then wish we were blessed with different ones. Like Mozart's rival,
Salieri, in the film Amadeus, we become increasingly bitter as we try and fail to conjure new talents from within." (p. 44)
"And then suddenly we have a revelation...We return to our strengths
path, and our friends, impressed by all the good things that happen as
a result-our productivity increase, our attitude improvement-look at us
and say, 'Wow, look at him. He changed.'
Well, no, the exact opposite has happened. What looks on the surface
like transformation is actually acceptance of some things that can
never be transformed-talents. We don't change. We simply accept our
talents and refocus our lives around them." (p. 44-45)
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"I believe that giving 'wings' to our children and to
others means empowering them with the freedom to rise above negative
scripting that had been passed down to us. I believe it means becoming
what my friend and associate, Dr. Terry Warner, calls a 'transition'
person. Instead of transferring those scripts to the next generation,
we can change them." (p. 316) |
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