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    Killing Time Kills Your Career
    Killing Time Kills Your Career
    Killing Time Kills Your Career
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    Killing Time Kills Your Career

    By DC West

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    Time stands still for nobody, and if you plan to make a success of your career, you had better understand the difference between "Killing time” and “Using time”. The success of your career depends on it. The one thing in life you cannot buy more of is Time – Use your time Wisely, or it will use you Foolishly!

    Although landing a good job is a big deal in anyone’s book, and when you do, you should definitely give yourself a great big selfie-five (that’s a high-five you give yourself). However, that’s no time to sit back, relax and think you’ve arrived. This is the to put your best foot forward and let your employer see what you're made of. If you like the idea that productive people are reaping the rewards in today’s business world, rather than those who show up at the office for sixty hours each week, only because they hate being at home – then you’re alive during the best possible time in history. All you now have to do is manage and utilise your time productively, and you will live a life of balance and financial abundance.

    The days have now long gone, when those who arrived at 7am and left at 7pm are thought of as valuable employees simply for showing up. Of course, if those twelve-hour work junkies are actually productive during all twelve hours, they’d be heroes to senior management right up until the day they burn out. I can tell you from experience that very few twelve-hour junkies are productive, unless you consider winning nine out of every ten games of solitaire productive. And hey, having drinks with your favourite customers until the kids have gone to bed, does not qualify as being productive either. Especially when you’re expensing those drinks to the company and calling it work.

    In this new world we live in, you get paid for the value you the market - not the time you spend at the office. In today’s modern working environment, most good companies have systems in place which allow them to accurately assess the actual value of an employee.

    For those people who want to succeed, and understand the value of being a productive member of a team, this is great news. Unfortunately for those of you who thought success meant showing up in a cool suit, and going for drinks with your favourite clients, you’re in for a very rude awakening. Companies that have these productivity measurement processes in place will improve and grow, while others fall behind. We should all be trying our hardest to find employment in the former.

    Either you accept the way the workplace has evolved, or prepare yourself for many short-lived careers. I’ve been working for almost thirty-six years now, and I’ve witnessed the evolution from the days of the deadwood floating around without being noticed, and living the dream – to a new advanced world, where the deadwood is chopped up and discarded, making room for those who appreciate the value of time.

    Whether you’re a senior executive in a multi-billion-dollar corporation, a working mother, or a junior sales assistant in a department store – Good time management is a critical part of succeeding without burning out. Now, I know many people have attended time management seminars, and read countless books about it. However, all you really need is to understand the key rules, and you’ll improve your time management skills in no time at all.
    The seven rules featured within this book are not the only rules for succeeding in your quest for taking control of your time and becoming a more valuable employee. However, they have been carefully selected as the seven most important ones.
    The 7 rules are as follows:

    Rule # 1 Always have a plan
    Rule # 2 Use the brain dump method
    Rule # 3 Be clear about the What, Why, When & How
    Rule # 4 Minimise interruptions
    Rule # 5 Strop trying to multitask
    Rule # 6 Take stock of your week
    Rule # 7 Make the time to save time

    I guarantee you this: Learn to manage your time wisely and you will manage you

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDC West
    Release dateNov 23, 2016
    Killing Time Kills Your Career
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    DC West

    As a Self-Help writer, blogger - my mission is to pass on what I've learned, and hope that you will use that knowledge to acieve what your goals in life. In order for that to happen, I need us to build a trusting relationship, and for that to be possible - you have to know who I am, and what I stand for. If you’ve read my book “Avoiding the maze”, you’ll know that I often have a problem trusting something if I don’t know HOW it works. I usually need some sort of scientific evidence, and even when I find evidence, I often conduct a few experiments of my own, just to make certain I’m on the right track. You see, life’s short, and I don’t like wasting time on things that don’t work for me. For more than thirty years, I searched for that illusive something which I thought would make me happy, and in turn make my life perfect. Throughout that time, I must have read at least two hundred books, and listened to more CD’s than I care to remember. Until about ten years ago, I felt as though I was lost in a maze of information. There just seemed to be too many theories that all sounded perfectly true to me on some level, while on the other side of the coin, a number of those same theories also tended to contradict each other in a number of areas. Furthermore, I found it difficult to understand why, with so many people reading all those books – finding just a handful of them who actually discovered what they were looking for, was like finding the proverbial needle in a haystack. I just became so damn sick and tired of waiting for all the wonderful things I was told I could receive in my life by doing stuff like trusting in the Law of Attraction, practicing positive thinking, meditating, and dozens of other fantastic things that so many gurus write about in their best-selling works of art. I just wanted someone to tell me how, in simple, good old easy to comprehend, English. I don’t think that’s too much to ask for. In-fact I became so tired of it, that I decided to make it my mission in life to find out HOW these things work, and then share the answers with you, so you don’t have to spend countless hours wondering through that huge maze of self-help information, the way I did. I hope I won’t let you down during this quest, and if at any stage you find me joining all the other writers who force you to consult a dictionary every second paragraph, just so you can understand what they’re saying – please do not hesitate to tell me. Yours in Truth DC West

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      Killing Time Kills Your Career - DC West

      Table of Contents

      INTRODUCTION

      The rules for using this book properly

      The seven rules

      Rule # 1 – Always have a plan

      The Ivy Lee Method

      Rule # 2 – Use the brain dump method

      Rule # 3 Be clear about the What, Why, When & How

      Rule # 4 – Minimise interruptions

      Rule # 5 Stop trying to multitask

      Rule # 6 – Take stock of your week

      Rule # 7 – Make the time to save time

      A healthy body produces healthy results

      Take family matters seriously

      Get started now

      A quick recap

      Coming soon from the Okay-But-How series of e-books

      Recommended additional reading

      Reference materials and other useful tools

      INTRODUCTION

      Landing a good job is a big deal in anyone’s book, and when you do, you should definitely give yourself a great big selfie-five (that’s a high-five you give yourself). However, that’s no time to sit back, relax and think you’ve arrived.

      Have you ever seen what happens to a tennis player who stands waiting for a photo to be taken after hitting the ball instead of preparing for the return shot? He never gets to the return shot quickly enough, and loses the point. Unless he quickly realises the flaw in his strategy, he’ll never get to the top. He could perhaps become a photographic model, but tennis just ain’t going to work out.

      Time stands still for nobody, and if you plan to make a success of any career, you had better understand the difference between killing time and using time. When I was in the air force back in 1981, the government had just about zero limit on their hiring budget. They were hiring so many people, that we ended up with about four men per job. In a standard forty-hour week,

      I think I actually produced only about sixteen-hours of real work. Nobody cared how much value you brought to the organization – just as long as you showed up on time, and clocked out after the siren sounded at 5pm. And best of all – every Christmas we all received bonuses, and promotions were handed out like lollipops on Halloween.

      "You get paid for the value you bring to the market

      Not the amount of time you spend at work"

      -Jim Rohn-

      This hiring mentality was not limited to the government sector only, but spilled over into many private organisations. Banks, mining giants, oil companies, and many others were bloated with staff

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