Focus: Your Key to More Productivity at Work

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FT Press, 2010 - Business & Economics - 261 pages

Reach your potential: all of it! It starts with focus. Feeling distracted? Scattered? Time's slipping away from you? You're not alone. But it doesn't have to be that way. Focus will help you get past procrastination, overcome today's 24x7 bombardment of messages and demands, escape from deadly routine, and infuse your life with creativity, flexibility, and power. Jurgen Wolff will walk you step-by-step through deciding what you really want... figuring out what's stopped you in the past... identifying and fixing disruptive influences and obstacles that keep you from focusing and using your time effectively. Finally, it will show you how to put all this information together into a workable plan you can follow again and again, whenever you set new goals for yourself. Along the way, you'll learn how to get your priorities straight, and start on the goals that matter most... do more of what you're already doing right... handle competing deadlines and projects... conquer paper, email, and meetings... put it all together, to meet all your goals! It's easier than you think. The proof is right here: all the skills and strategies you need to make a plan, go after what you really want, and get it!

 

Contents

How to Focus on Your Vital 20
1
How to Focus on Your First Goals
15
Howto Focus Your Time Patterns for Success
39
How to Overcome the Obstacles to Focus
57
How to Focus on What Already Works
75
How to Finally Beat Procrastination
89
How to Use the Alter Ego Strategy
105
How to Manage Other People
117
How to Create Information Focus
153
How to Conquer the Paper Mountain
163
How to Tame the Email Monster
177
How to Master Meetings and Networking
189
How to Deal with Deadlines and Multiple Projects
203
How to Maintain Your Newfound Focus
223
How to Put It All Together to Reach All Your Goals
235
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How to Focus Your Language for Extraordinary Results
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About the author (2010)

Jurgen Wolff is a writer, lecturer, and consultant. His books include Your Writing Coach (Nicholas Brealey) and Do Something Different (Virgin Books). His specialty is developing innovative right-brain approaches to creativity, productivity, and marketing. He has also written more than 100 television episodes for the United States, Great Britain, and Germany. His film, The Real Howard Spitz, starred Kelsey Grammer, and his mini-series, Midnight Man, starred Rob Lowe. His plays have been performed in New York, London, Los Angeles, and Berlin. His original animated series, "Norman Normal," has been broadcast throughout Europe. As well as teaching workshops on personal development, time management and creativity, he has written many articles, including a personal development column for the Times Educational Supplement. He has made numerous television and radio appearances in support of his books and workshops. The companion website to Focus: The Power of Targeted Thinking is www.Focusquick.com. He publishes a free monthly Brainstorm e-bulletin, which is full of tips and techniques about being more creative and productive. For a free subscription, please email BstormUK@aol.com. His writing-related websites are www.YourWritingCoach.com and www.TimetoWrite.com, and his writing blog is www.TimetoWrite.blogs.com. He divides his time between London and Southern California.