Managing Management Time

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Your life is a reflection of the next 15 minutes - if you don't know how to manage the next 15 minutes, you don't know how to manage your life! Today's business professionals struggle with too many emails, too much social media, too many competing and changing priorities, and too many interruptions. As a result we are increasingly scattered and stressed.

Failure to Launch will teach you how to transform defeat into success. We have put in over 2000 man-hours in discovering why people fail at managing themselves through defeat and failure. Self-image is just one of the major factors why most people can't bounce back from setbacks and failures in their lives. If you don't have a healthy, strong self-image, you can try as hard as you like, but you'll probably never see success.

We do not learn how to manage personal money in our schools. Actually, most people lack this knowledge and are losing money very quickly as a result. I will lead you through every important spending area and show you many tips that can help you save hundreds and thousands a year, and we may even go over some things you have never thought about. I will give you step-by-step instructions for immediate and long-term savings.

Find the right balance of professional ambition and personal fulfillment. Take yourself one step ahead, without overdoing it! It can be easy to burn yourself out as you try to keep up the pace in your highly competitive niche, but fatigue isn't a badge of honor. If you keep going the way you’re going, you’ll grow increasingly tired, dissatisfied, and resentful. And this won’t just affect your work life, it may harm your personal relationships as well.

Don’t some folks seem to have it all? Wealth, life-mastery, health, success, happiness, respect, excellence relationships - just about everything while you are struggling to scrape through life. Life doesn’t seem too fair, does it? Well let me spill a secret here and challenge your inherent beliefs - success is a decision! It is not as much about destiny as it is about an aggregation of our choices and decisions.

In difficult times, both personally and professionally, Judy Piatkus single handedly built one of the world's most successful, independent book publishing companies in recent years. The Piatkus brand became known worldwide for its success in launching many new authors and dozens of new ideas into a crowded and competitive marketplace.