" The secret of getting ahead is getting started."

"The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one."     

                                                                                            Mark Twain

( Mark Twain is one of my favorite sources of quotes and ultimately inspiration. I like him because he cuts to the chase and is action driven, when all else fails, do something! )   BB

Time, time and more time. I guess you could say we are a little fanatical about time. If you are not interested in time, this is not the site for you. They say you have about 14 seconds to capture someone’s interest on the Web and then they are gone. You are past 14 seconds and you are still here so maybe we have something in common.

We deal with time in a lot of ways, here are a few examples.

  Time is the starting point from which ALL future improvement flows from

 Time is the foundation on which we build on

   The ways we can take control of time and make it work for us

    Why time is not an renewable resource and wasting time means you are wasting your life

    How taking control of your time will reduce your stress level and make you more productive

    Why is Proper Time Management so difficult to obtain

    Why Time Management is not a destination but a journey

    Why you need to take responsibility for you own future

     Why Proper Time Management is hard work, takes sacrifices and requires total commitment

What Is Time Management ?

That’s a good question. There are a lot of different definitions that deal with this term, all of them have some aspect of them that helps to define the term, but I have yet to find one, including mine, that really captures the essence of flavour of the term. Here are some parameters that help to clarify what the term means to me and how we deal with time here, it should prove helpful to you in determining if you will work with us.

  Time Management is you controlling what happens around you instead of you responding to outside influences.

  Time Management is you taking control of what you do, when you do it and how you do it

  Time Management is you determining what is really important to you and then making sure

you spend your time doing those activities

   Time Management is you taking ownership of your time and using your time to

 benefit you and the people you care about

   Time Management enables you to get the most productivity out of the fewest available hours

  Time Management helps you develop a Blue Print For Success

  Time Management enables you to be the windshield, not the bug

  Time Management gives you the systems, policies, procedures and tools

 to take control of the direction you want to go in

  Time Management is the process that will get you organized so you can

 accomplish the maximum amount of good in the shortest amount of time

WE  believe every word of our definition and we have 1,000's of people who have worked with us and they believe it too. Lets quickly bring this into focus and also show you what is required to make all these wonderful things happen to you.

Lots of hard work. No easy way to say that. If I’ve lost you , you were already gone long before this.

Commitment . Saying you want things to be better is not good enough. You have to back up your wants with a commitment to do what is required to make things change for the better for you.

Understanding  and being prepared for life style changes. Same old habits get the same old results. Want new results, you need new habits

No gain without pain. Expect some growing pains. Its hard to change old habit, its difficult to do things differently, especially when the new way will cause you and those around you to change.

We all have a comfort zone. Get ready to get out of yours.

Patience . You will learning different skills, using new and better tools, assimilating new systems, policies and procedures, this all takes time.

You will not find this material on any other web page, But what would be the point of trotting out the usual dog and pony show about for, just x dollars, no work or effort on your part, you will instantly be better organized, happier and more fulfilled when you install our supper duper software.

What’s So Great About Time Management ?

Lots, but I will just mention a few here.

Universality

It does not matter who you are or what you do, Proper Time Management will help you, guaranteed. I don’t use the word guarantee very often but in this case, it’s a no brainier. It’s the nature of the beast. Time touches all of us, it’s the stuff that every day is made up of. We all need time to do things. We all use time, some wisely, some unwisely. It touches all of us. It effects us in so many ways that it is impossible to separate our successes and failures from the way we treat time.

One Size Fits All   

The same systems, policies, procedures and tools that work for me, will also work for you and the person standing beside you. Proper management techniques work for   the baker, candle stick maker as well as the accountant, factory worker, sales rep, supervisor, whoever wants to get a better handle on there time and results.

Immediate Results   

For those of you who are actually reading this and giving it some thought, you may instantly react to this statement as being at odds to the above statements where I say how hard and difficult this will be etc. Let me explain what is so powerful about Time Management . A little bit goes a long way. Small changes that require a small amount of work on your part will reap big benefits to you. A fast example, changing how you set up your meetings can ad hours to you week. A small change requiring little effort, big benefits and results you will see immediately.

One Change, Life Long Benefits   

What I really like about Time Management   is the compounding effect of just one positive change. Time is what our days are made up of. The things we do inside that time dictates all of our results. A lot of the things we do, we do over and over again. It stand to reason that if you can do those repeat things, better and   faster, you will make more of your time available to do even more things.

This is where the compounding benefit of Time Management   comes into play. Take a task that you do at work everyday, it can be anything, filing, reporting, corresponding, recording, fixing, communicating, anything that you do on a regular consistent basis.

Now, lets spend a little   time and effort, use the tools you will get in the Power Time System and shave 15 minutes off just one task you know do at work. Saving 15 minutes a day, frees up over 60 hours a year and depending upon how old you are now, that could be hundreds, if not thousands of hours of extra time you will have to do something you really want to do.

That’s the power of Proper Time Management .

It’s Not All Or Nothing    

When you do a 1,000 piece jig saw puzzle, getting 995 in place gives you an incomplete puzzle, close, but still incomplete. The advantage of Time Management is, you don’t have to have all 1,000 pieces of this puzzle in place before you benefit.

 In fact, starting with just one new method or tool from our System will give you immediate benefits. People mishandle the phone, cell and land line. Spending just a little time in this area, can reap you big benefits. That’s just one of hundreds of new techniques that await you.

There are just a few of the things we like about Time Management here. 

This site isn’t about us, it’s about you.

What’s In It for Me ?

Life is what you make of it. There is a tremendous amount of information on this site, with more to come. Even just going through the free information will give you a huge jump start on your way to getting your life under control with better utilization of your time. What sorts of benefits can you expect to derive from better Time Management ? Lets see

Better Productivity

This covers a broad range of things. Basically we mean you will get more done in the same amount of time. When you get better at doing activities, you can do more of them in a shorter period of time. You can benefit whichever way you want. If you can do more in a shorter period of time, you can just do more in the same amount of time or you can the same in a shorter period of time, and then move on to something else. Either way, you are a winner.

Better Productivity Now Allows You To Do The Things You Want To Do

You now can do more of the same things, if you like what you are doing, or use the freed up time to do the things you want to do. I have no idea if you like what you do at work, unfortunately most people do not. If you are in the majority, then you want to be better at what you do at work so you can get done with what you have to do so you can get doing what you want to do.

If you like what you do, you are a double winner. If you are one of the rare people who gets to do what they want, for you its just more of the same. You will become better at what you really want to do and you can either do more of it, or do it in less time and then move on to more things you want to do.

Less Stress

Stressed out people are of course stressed out but they are a lot of other things as well.

Unhappy comes to mind,

Who wants to walk around all day with their head in a vice ?

Stress is caused by a lot of things but when you are unhappy, you feel like the world is closing in on you. After working with thousands of people, in Seminars, one on one consulting, emails, mail, over the phone, what come though as one of the top triggers for stress and unhappiness is regret. Whether you have a System to organize yourself or not, I believe deep down, most people know what should be done at work.

They also know, within a certain range, what are the Priority issues as well.

The regret comes into to play when they have put in a hard days work and at the end of it they feel unhappy and stress because they know in there hearts of hearts that they didn’t accomplish the things they wanted and knew they should of. It’s not that they didn’t work hard, they did, they just didn’t work hard at the important things.

Unproductive

When we are not in top form or even at half form, we simply do not produce as much as if we were in a better frame of mind. When we are stressed out we tend to get more stressed out for no other reason than we are getting worked up and continue to do so. It’s a self fulfilling prophecy.

When you are stressed, it’s very hard, if not impossible to get calmed down and back to yourself, at the job, at least for that day. Most of us need to get away from the source of stress before we can start to unwind and work it out of our systems. This means at least an evening away at the end of the day. As a bonus, we get to get up the next morning and repeat the whole process all over again. 

Un- organized

What comes first, are you stressed out and become disorganized, or are you disorganized and then become stressed out? Interesting question but does it really matter. Either way the end result will be that you are not going to very effective. You come to work and you simply start off being not prepared and that gets you stressed out and it’s all down hill from there. You are at work and throughout the day, you get stressed out from being bombarded from all sides with outside influences that are eroding your time and you ability to do your job and this causes you to get stressed out and further deteriorates your ability to be organized. 

The best laid plans of mice and men can go array when we get assaulted from all sides as we do at our workplaces. This is where the adherence to a well though out, organized Day Planner is all that stands between you and utter chaos. He didn’t plan to fail, he just failed to plan comes to mind.

You Will Be Happier

If we are not happy, what’s the point? At the end of the day, or the beginning for that , Proper Time Management is going to make you happier than you were without out. Happiness is a relative term. I do not know where you are now in regards to feeling happy and fulfilled, content with where you are in life, but I do know, you can and will be MORE happy and content with your lot when you do get better organized and get more out of your time.

Nothing drives and motivates people more than to see some results come from their own efforts. With a little effort and a commitment to working at getting more control of your time will come immediate and quantifiable results. More effort and more commitment will be followed by more positive results.

I don’t know what constitutes happiness for you, but I do know that to be happy and happier, you will rely on time to be either. To be happy now, you must be controlling your time well enough to be where you are now. Don’t fix what ain't broke. If you want to be happier, be more success at work, make more money, get or be more of anything, you will need to get more from your time.

You Will Make More Money

 That is a guarantee. Its simple math. You make !x dollars now.

I will show you how to be more productive. How to get more done in the same time at the least, the best results will be to get more done in less time. You will be able to do more of the right activities in the same amount of time. You will be able to do more because you will have les stress, be more organized and be happier doing all of it. Will you be able to make 2x, 3x, I don’t know but you will sure be able to do more than the 1 x you are making now.

I fight constantly with people, usually people who own their own business about why they are not making enough or more money. They come in a say they are spending all this money and their profits are too low and what can I / we do about it. The first thing I do is look at their personal work habits, which by the way, drives them crazy. They get very defensive and offended that the reason they are not making as much money as they want could actually be their fault. In the first appointment we have, I ask them point blank, what are you planning to do tomorrow, let me see your schedule. 1 in 10, will have a vague idea of what they are going to do the next day. 1 in 10. 1 in 40 will have something down on paper, in their computer , that resembles a schedule of activities for the next day.

It’s not the purpose of this section to go into detail about how totally unprepared the vast majority of people are to put themselves in a position to be profitable. You will be able to make your own mind up as you tour this site, read our material, use our PTS , if we will be able to help you be more profitable. The answer should become clear to you as your investigate what we have to offer here.

Are We For You ?

We have been part of thousands of people who have in part or in whole, have embraced our methodology and the Power Time System and used these tools to better and improve there lives. Some have emailed me and said we have been instrumental in major life style changes and improvements to their lives.

Others have said there increased productivity has improved there profitability 3 fold. Stress is now reduced or eliminated and people have commented that there jobs or businesses are now much more enjoyable. Sufficient to say we have our fans.

The question here is, is what we offer for you? It does not matter if we have thousands of happy clients if at the end of this exercise, there is not a fit between you and us. There is a matrix at work here, and it has to work for you.

    *    The System

    *    The match between your personality and mine

    *     Our Approach

    *     Our Way Of Doing Things

I feel strongly about there being a good fit between you and who and what we are here and how we go about doing what we do. Lets face it, if you don’t like our approach, how we do things , our methodology, who we are, then what we have to say will not be of much interest to you. I’ll spend a few moments on each area and give you some background on how we operate. I hope you find this information useful in making up your mind to work with us.

    * The System, our   Power Time System (PTS)

This is the nuts and bolts of who we are, what we do, and how we go about convey it to you. This System, PTS, is a living breathing ever changing document. It started out of necessity and grew, developed and evolved over time. Right now the entire System is approximately 367 , 81/2 by 11 real pages long. That’s a substantial document by any standards. It has 100 ‘s of real hands on tools, secrets, tricks of the trade, systems, policies and procedures to help you get organized, take control of your time, be happier and have less stress.

We have very specific ways that we want this information used. If we didn’t we would of called it the Power Time Suggestions or the Power Time Alternatives or may be the Power Time Electives. You get the picture. It works, if you want to use it, great, if you don’t, find something else you like better, but get something else and use that.

Having said that, the reality is, many of our clients take our information and use it as they see fit, and do very well. I get countless emails, phone calls, see people at seminars and we have a great rapport talking about what they do and don’t do and why.

This is the essence of improving, better yourself, getting ahead, it’s the journey and the struggle that gets us    where we want to be. Its appropriate to say that our site and our Power Time System is the catalyst and start point to there collective successes. I’ve always said that we play a part in this process, without you commitment, hard work and dedication all we are is just words on a page.

The Match Between Your Personality And Mine

On one level, it shouldn’t really matter, it’s unlikely we will ever meet, you could be in any province in Canada, any state in the United States, that’s 70% of mine business, in the UK, Australia, another 10& of my business, and the rest of my business is stretched over the rest of the world, the internet allows that to happen. I’m located out in the country, 2 ½ hours North of Toronto , Ontario Canada. So unless I have a seminar near you at some point, we will never meet. The only interaction we have is through this site and the words that are conveyed on it. Unless its clearly indicated, otherwise,

ALL of the words on this site are written by myself, Bryan Beckstead, owner, founder, creator of the Power Time System.

My attitude and personality comes through these words, its impossible for it not to. I’ve been told by associates, colleagues, clients far and wide that I’m the following, arrogant, stubborn, intelligent, one minded, over bearing, crazy, long winded, a zealot, passionate, articulate. I also have a really weird sense of humour as well. At the end of the day, I could be called a lot worse.

I think its okay to be passionate, stubborn, one minded, crazy and long winded about something you believe in and want to share with others. I hope we can come to a meeting of the minds and you can work with me on this journey together.

My Approach

The only way to tackle something as important as organizing your life and getting the most out of ever second of time is head on. My approach is aggressive and straight forward. I don’t do a lot of soft touchy feely things, that’s not how life out there is. The world has become a fairly tough, aggressive place to find your way in.

To survive, prosper and reap the maximum amount of rewards from life, you have to be able to push back when necessary. I like to have the people who work with us here to stake out there claim to their time, staking out there territory so to speak. We want our clients to take a proprietary attitude in regards to their time. You only have so much time , you have to learn to protect it.

After talking to thousands of clients, certain traits emerge. People are simply too accommodating when it comes to basically giving up there time to other things, to other people. When we demonstrate how this Why Time Management ?minute, hour by hour by outside forces.

 Its not a deep dark conspiracy, its simply the people, activities and events around you, if allowed, would rather you work on there agenda than on the agenda that would best benefit you. It’s simple,    do you want to be the asphalt or the steamroller ?

With the tools, systems, tricks of the trade, shortcuts, new polices and procedures that we will impart on you, through our Power Time System, you can tip the scales in your favour. The events around you are largely predictable. The events that happen to you daily are the same ones that happen a fairly regular basis. In other words, you can predict them on a fairly consistent basis.

If you have a good idea what will happen, then you can also plan, organize and manipulate them to your advantage. That’s the benefit of planning and being organized, your are the one that gets to set the agenda and get the other people to react to you instead of the other way around.

You ALWAYS want to be the one who sets the rules, picks the field, hires the referees, brings the ball, and blows the whistle to start the game. You now have put your self in a position to maximize the most out of your time and reap the maximum benefit from the time you will invest.

Our Way Of Doing Things

Sometimes when I’m working on a business transaction and I’m in a position to say to the other side, its my way or the highway. It doesn’t happen very often and I only use that tactic if I have to, but it is my arsenal if I feel I want to or have use it. This is not one of those cases. In fact, you are the one that has the power to say to me, not today, don’t agrees with you or like what you say or how you say it, have a nice a day, and with a click, I disappear for ever.

The only way you and I can do business is if there is a meeting of the minds. I have something of value to offer to those who feel they are in need of what I have to offer and feel there is in fact some value to them in my offering. I will not make claims that are not true about what we have here.

I instead make sure that people know there is work ahead of them hard work that will require some sacrifices on there part if they are to benefit from what we have here. If you want to think you can spend 50 or 60 bucks , buy a CD, flip it into your computer and all of your worries are over, best of luck , be sure to let me know how that works out for you.

I realize that I have a selling job to do, no mistake about that.  

I have to sell you on two things. 

Time Management is the only way you are going to have a fighting chance to put your self in a position to reap the maximum rewards from your efforts.

Our Power Time System will give you the road map to make this happen.

 Activity

There is a lot of material covered in this section. It has to do with what we know is here for you and what this information can do for you. You are the one that has to do some thinking.

 It’s a simple risk – reward equation.

    What do I have to risk and what will my reward be for that risk ?

Sit down and mull over what you will have to do in order to get more out of the time you are already spending. Working with our    new Time Management tools, systems, policies, procedures DOES not take more time. You replace what you are already doing and spending with what we have available for you. Its not extra time, you just use the same time in a better more effective manner.

Now mull over the ways you will benefit.

Does it now make sense to you? , That is the only relevant question at this point.

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