N#B.S.
TIME MANAGEMENT FOR
ENTREPRENEURS
SECOND EDITION
THE ULTIMATE NO-HOLDS BARRED KICK BUTT TAKE NO PRISONERS GUIDE TO TIME PRODUCTI VITY & SANITY
Dan S. Kennedy
Ep Entrepreneur PRESS'
Contents
FOREWORD What Can You Get from This Book? by Bill Gough PREFACE The Need for Extraordinary Measures by Dan Kennedy CHARTER 1 How to Turn Time Into Money Can One "Number" Change Your Life?, 2 Seek LEVERAGE, 6 How Low Can You Go in Valuing Time?, 10 CHARTER 2 How to Drive a Stake Through the Hearts of the Time Vampires Out to Suck You Dry Got a Minute?, 16 "They're In a Meeting," 18 Playing Trivial Pursuit, 19
vi # NO B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs Oh Boy, It's Soap Opera Time, 20 Are There Other Time Vampires?, 21 How I Stupidly Put Out the Welcome Matfor the Time Vampires and Let Them Suck Me Dry, 22 Before You Can Win, You Have to Hate to Lose, 23 CHARTER 3 Stopping "Productivus Interruptus" Once and For All
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Get Lost, 26 Don't Answer the Phone, 29 The Tahe-with-You Phone, 31 Your "Steel Curtain" Telephone Defense, 34 Get a Grip on Email, Texts, and Faxes, 37 The Dark Side of Instant Communication, 38 Finding Power in Communication Tools, 39 Set the Timer on the Bomb, 45 Be Busy and Be Obvious About It, 46 CHARTER 4 The Number-One Most Powerful Personal Discipline in All the World And How It Can Make You Successful Beyond Your Wildest Dreams
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The Tragic Case ofthe Doctor Who Couldn't Teil Time, 50 The Telling Connection between Punctuality and Integrity, 51 A Simple Way to Favorably Impress Others, 53 Are Even a Person's Deepest, Darkest Psyche Secrets Revealed by Punctuality?, 54 CHARTER 5 The Magic Power that Makes You Unstoppable
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ITo B.s. Time Management for Entrepreneurs 0 vii How a "Little Man" Reminds Us of "The Magic Power" 8,000 Times and Counting, 58 How to Make the World Hand Over Just about Anything You Ask, 60 The Inextricable Link between Time Management and Self-Discipline, 63 Three Steps to Successful Achievement, 63 "Success Leaves Clues," 65 CHARTER 6 The Ten Time Management Techniques Realiy Worth Using
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Technique #1: Tarne the Interruptions, 68 Technique #2; Minimize Meetings, 68 Technique #3: Practice Absolute Punctuality, 69 Technique #4: Make and Use Lists, 69 Technique #5: Fight to Link Everything to Your Goals, 71 Technique #6: Tickle the Memory with Tickler Files, 74 Technique #7: Block Your Time,75 Technique #8: Minimize Unplanned Activity, 79 Technique #9: Profit from "Odd-Lot" Time, 83 Technique #10: Live Off Peak, 85 Bonus Technique #11: Use Technology Profitably, 86 CHARTER 7 How to Turn Time into Wealth
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"On the Other Hand..97 How Much Is Enough?, 101 CHARTER 8 How to Handle the Information Avalanche
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How Do You Handle All This?, 104
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viii # fTO B.s. Time Management for Entrepreneurs Specialize. But Not Too Much, 108 How to Organize and Manage Ideas, 109 How the Well-Trained, Conditioned, and Fit Subconscious Mind Helps Handle the Information Avalanche, 112 CHARTER 9 Fire Yourself, Replace Yourself, Make More Money, and Hove More Fun
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"We're Overpaying Him, But He's Worth It," 116 "Delegate or Stagnate," 117 Going Beyond Delegation, 120 "They Gave Me a Lifetime Contract, Then They Pronounced Me Legally Dead," 121 What to Do with the Time You Liberate, 123 CHARTER 10 The Link between Productivity and Association ... 127 Tapping into a "Mastermind," 130 The Glitch, 134 Failure, 136 CHARTER 11 Buy Time by Buying Expertise
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A Coach for Everything, 143 The Expertise Legitimacy Test, 144 Invest to Move Up and Speed Up, 147 CHARTER 1 2 The Inner Game of Peak Personal Productivity Psycho-Cybemetics and Getting More Value from Your Time, 153 Creating a Peak Productivity Environment, 155 "A Clean Desk Is a Sign ofa Sick Mind," 156
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NO B.s. Time Management for Entrepreneurs
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Finally—The Militant Attitüde, 158 The Unreasonable Man, 159 "You May Be Able to Get Away with These Things, But I Certainly Can't—At Least Not Now," 160 Your Rules, 161 The Inner Game ofKingship, 163 CHARTER 13 Reasons Why a Year Passes and No Meaningful Progress Is Made
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Majoring in Minor Matters, 170 Breaking the Code of Extraordinarily Successful People, 172
Dan Kennedy s No B.S. Time Truths
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Other Books by the Author in the No B.S. Series, 177 Index
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