86    Is This Meeting Really Necessary? 

Major Time wasters. Meetings are killers because of the numbers involved. Even two people in a meeting can be a major time waster. Estimates peg that 60 % to 70 % of the meetings people have are not necessary. A simple rule of thumb I use for whether a meeting is required or not. If the answers and questions for the proposed meeting can fit on a single page, this meeting is probably a waste of time. Use the phone, mail, email, conference call, any other method but a face to face meeting. The likely hood that the face to face meeting will stretch on long after its effectiveness has worn off is huge. 

87    Work Smarter- Not Harder 

   This saying is over worked, but under utilized. It’s a power saying but it is not paid attention to any where near enough. This is covered in some detail in the PTS and covered a lot in the Power Productivity Maximizer site. I’m not one who shies away from hard work. That is not the issue here, what is at stake here is working harder than you necessarily have to. Working your butt off and wasting time and energy, when with a little planning and thinking in advance, you could have gotten the same results, maybe even better results with less effort, is the issue here. 

  The repeating thought that keeps resurfacing is think, plan and invest your time to reap the maximum results from your time and efforts. This is why Time Management and Productivity go hand in hand. As you get farther and farther into your introduction to Time Management, you will I hope, start to see the subtleties emerge that make this journey so interesting. 

88    You have to Have Confidence 

Your time will never be well spent until you can relax and have confidence in the fact you are on the right track and you are doing the right things at the right time. To get that confidence you have to have the right System in place for you. This isn’t a sell job for our System; it’s a sell job for a System, any System 

  You need to be able to get to bed at night and feel that you are in the right hands, your hands. A crucial step in getting in charge of your time and results is to be able to relax and have faith in the course you have embarked on. That can only happen when you are working in conjunction and with in the confines of a routine that makes you feel comfortable relaxed and in control. 

  It does not matter what I say or preach, what matters is how you feel and the results you are getting. When it’s all said and done, the acid test is this, are you happier and better off than you were before? 

89    The Real Purpose Of The Power Time System 

 The real purpose of any system is to allow us to get them day to day stuff under control so we can free up some time to do what we should be doing more of, thinking of the things that will elevate our lives and existence to a higher  level. The more activities and tasks we can relegate to the automatic, don’t have to really think about it stage, the more time we will have to think of the issues and things that make are lives more interesting and fun. 

  Start to look at getting things under control and the way you do that as an exercise that will free you up to get creative, get more adventurous and just have more fun. 

90    Get Good, Then get Wired 

People are always asking me why I don’t put the PTS into a computer program. The answer is simple; it does not work in that format. I spent quite of bit of time working on several formats that incorporated the PTS into a number of existing programs on the market to day. There was a definite drop in the effectiveness of the System and something was lost in the translation from written to keypunch. 

   I’m firm believer you have to get good, and then you can get fast. Walk before you run comes to mind. We all learn and absorb things differently. You may feel more comfortable moving what we have to offer directly to you computer. Be sure you have mastered the nuances and feeling, flavor of the System before you make this move. 

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