1. You’re paid to get things done, not for the hours you work. Even if you’re PAID by the hour, you are ultimately paid for the value you produce. Get more done in less time and you improve your value to your employer—even if that employer is yourself.

2. More job security. When a company has to downsize, the most inefficient and ineffective are usually let go first. Being more productive increases your job security.

3. Have more time to do the things YOU want to do. We all have things that need to be done that aren’t all that pleasant or fun. By getting things done quickly and effectively, you will find yourself having more time to do the things you find more pleasurable and/or fall into the not urgent, but important, category.

4. Satisfaction. A job well done, on time, with efficiency, is a gratifying experience. Turn your good to better and your better to best for greater satisfaction.

5. Time is money. And that’s been true for a very long time. Increased productivity is profitable. Finding a better, faster, more efficient way to do things results in added value and greater profits.

6. It makes us better stewards of our resources. People, money, time, energy and knowledge must be well managed. Not to do so is wasteful. Cultivate your resources and increase your productivity.

7. It’s fun. Finding better, faster, more efficient ways to leverage your time and efforts can be like a game—a game that pays you handsomely.

8. Your productivity improves the productivity of others. You have a chance to be the low, average or high bar that’s set in your work environment. And average is the best of the worst and the worst of the best. It sucks.

9. It will put more life in your years. It’s been said that it’s not the years in our life but the life in our years that matters. And I submit that being as productive as possible in all our efforts allows us to put more life in our years.

10. We can’t manage time. We can only manage events, tasks and projects within whatever time we have. And THAT is reason enough to consistently invest in improving our performance.

Please join us for our first TeleSummit on Peak Performance and Productivity.
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There’s a lot of talk these days about different classes: the rich and the poor, the haves and the have-nots, the privileged and the underprivileged. It’s been said that the rich are getting richer and the poor are getting poorer—perhaps they’re right.

But I think there have always been differences. And as troubled and challenged as the middle class is today, history has shown us that the disparity between rich and poor is less now than in centuries past.

And no matter how much more advantage any class has over another, there is one thing every single person has in equal amounts—time.

We all have 24 hours a day. And with few exceptions, we have freedom of choice as to how we invest the 1,440 minutes every one of us is given each and every day.

The richest person who ever lived is unable to buy more time. They might leverage it and hire things done but they cannot bargain for more time.

Ben Franklin wrote, “Do not squander time, for that is what life is made of.”

I think we can agree with Ben. Our life is made up of time. And, of course, it’s not the time we put in, but rather what we put in to the time. We decide how to spend it. We decide how we live our lives.

Are you satisfied with how you invest your time? Do you respect and value it to the degree you should?

Are you effective as well as efficient? Are you living in accordance with your core values? Do you take actions and get things done that further your highest objectives?

I challenge you to take a hard look at your stewardship of your most precious asset.

I encourage you to look for ways to become more efficient and effective? How can you leverage yourself with tools, services and technology? How can you get more of the right things done in less time?

And I can think of no better way to sharpen your time and event management skills than attending all or part of our upcoming TeleSummit on finishing the year STRONG.

Achieve more of your peak potential. All five days of this event are FREE. There is no cost to participate. All you need to do is register. And when you do, you will also get a free—and very in-depth—Personal Achievement Assessment.

Find out all about it and check out our prestigious panel of top-notch experts on this page . . .

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“Nothing diminishes anxiety faster than action.”

—Walter Anderson

. . . Gutenberg Invented the Printing Press.

Just a year ago, it was predicted that Amazon would soon be selling more eBooks than both hardcover and paperback books combined. Just a few weeks later, they did just that. And that’s not even counting all the free Kindle books.

There’s no question that The Kindle has been a huge success. And we’re continually amazed at just how big a success it has become. For instance, Amazon now has more than 950,000 Kindle titles available for sale.

On a recent vacation, I read two entire books and reviewed several others—all on my iPhone Kindle app which I got for free. You can even read newspapers with it.

If you don’t own a Kindle, we highly recommend you get one—or at least get the free Kindle app for your computer, iPad or smart phone.

And Kindle book sales show no signs of slowing down anytime soon. It won’t be long until Amazon’s next milestone: digital books accounting for twice as many sales as physical books. Amazon says it will sell 6 million Kindle Fires by the end of 2011.

Even at a used book store you can’t beat free, $1.99 or even $5.99 for a book. Older books you were planning to read someday are available instantly—mostly for free—on the Kindle. And you can get as many as you want, because you don’t have to physically store them anyplace.

As an author or publisher, the potential is substantial. Amanda Hocking is a purple-haired, 26-year-old author raking in hundreds of thousands of dollars without ever being published by a traditional publisher. She bypasses the middleman and publishes her own books on Amazon Kindle store. And what does she write about? Vampires.

Hocking sells around 100,000 copies of her nine different books, such as Flutter, Hollowland, and the My Fate Approves trilogy, every month. She nets from .70 to $2 USD per book—more than she ever would earn as a traditionally published author.

The value to readers and the opportunities for authors and publishers is simply astounding.

This Christmas, get a Kindle for yourself and/or someone you care about. And if you already have one, load it up with some great reading.

Our Kindle Store is here . . .

Action Points

1. Get a Kindle or Kindle app. It will be one of the best things you’ve ever done for your learning library. If you’d like to find out more and order yours today, go here . . .

2. If you have a book or plan to write a book, find out how to get yours into Kindle format and start selling it today.

3. For a complete analysis and in-depth insight into this entire phenomenon and what it means to you and your future, go to this page and watch the video by Vic Johnson.

Hundreds of thousands of people will become millionaires as a result of this technology and the publishing tsunami it’s creating. Take advantage of this window of opportunity and learn how you can get books on Amazon in Kindle format.