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Top Four Time Management Issues

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Talk with most anyone and ask them what they think are the top issues in time management and you will get answers such as, “Having a well prepared “to do” list,” “Managing multiple priorities,” “Managing Meeting time,” “Handling the flood of...

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The Basics for a Successful In-House Training Program

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore As a Professional Speaker, I have conducted hundreds of in-house training programs during the last thirty years and I have observed several practices that make in-house training work better than not. This is not a comprehensive list, or...

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Top Five Time Management Mistakes

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore In my thirty years as a Time Management speaker and consultant, I have observed a lot of what we can and should not do to increase our daily results. Time management is not necessarily working “harder,” but rather, “smarter.” And to...

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Top Five Best Time Management Practices

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore From my thirty years in the field of Time Management, I have developed the “Top Five Best Time Management Practices” to help you to get more out of every day. Plan An Hour Per Day For “Me Time.” Give twenty-three hours to the world but keep...

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Tools for Increasing Employees’ Productivity

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Helping employees to become more productive means they are getting more done in less time and with less stress, burn out, and turnover. It also means recruiting and retention costs go down, enhancing the bottom line. (And, it’s not a bad way...

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Time Management Secrets

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore I have spent most of the last thirty years researching, studying, writing and speaking about Time Management and Personal Productivity. I have learned a whole lot and my full-time mission now is to share that knowledge through my writings,...

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Time Management and Improved Health

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore In the United States alone there are approximately 2.4 million deaths each year and 75% of those deaths are from causes within your control. You know what you should be doing to enhance your health and live longer and more productively but a...

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Three Steps for Positive Goal Setting

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore As I conduct my Time Management Seminars all over, my audiences consistently tell me they want more out of life. Almost everyone I speak with has a yearning for improving several aspects of their lives. They have dreams and goals about their...

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The Time Thieves

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore You have 24 hours in every day, seven days a week for a total of 168 hours to accomplish what needs to be done in your life. And every day, eleven time thieves gang up on you and work to take some of that precious time away from productive...

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The Time Management Reality

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore I typically conduct 150 training days per year, sharing with my audiences tools and techniques to help them to increase their daily personal productivity and get more time and balance in their personal lives. Wherever I am asked to speak, I...

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The Time Management Myth

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Having made more than 2,000 presentations on Time Management and Personal Productivity during the last thirty years, I have had the good fortune of counseling with thousands in their quest for increased results in their daily business and...

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The Paper Blizzard

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Have you ever felt you were getting buried under a blizzard of paperwork? You should. Memos, junk mail, emails, letters, pamphlets, books, and faxes are coming at you at an ever-increasing rate. You get more information thrown at you in one...

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The Eleven Biggest Lies

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore In the world of Time Management there are things said to us that we accept as truth and we act accordingly. The problem is sometimes they are not truths. They are lies and as we believe them, they waste our time. Those who speak these lies to...

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The Curse of Perfectionism

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore There’s a rule known as the Pareto Principle. It teaches us that 20% of our efforts produce 80% of our results. The additional 80% of our efforts will only yield an additional 20% of results. The first thrust of effort then is the most...

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Ten Super Marketing Ideas for the Professional Speaker

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore During the past thirty years as a full-time Professional Speaker, I have learned a lot about what to and, more importantly, what not to do to market Professional Speaking Services. Below are ten SUPER marketing ideas that have worked for me....

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Systematize and Simplify

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore During thirty years as a Time Management speaker and consultant, I have learned and shared a lot of simple practices that help my audiences to increase their daily results. A lot of time is wasted because we don’t have a system in place for...

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Stop Wasting Time

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Life is often what happens to you along the way when you have planned otherwise because there are time wasters out there to throw you off the track. Your performance may not always match your intentions. To help you to increase your...

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Stabilize Stress

By: Dr. Donald E. Wetmore Stress is a killer. There are some who would say, “there’s good stress and then there’s bad stress.” That’s sort of like saying, “there are good heart attacks and then there are bad heart attacks.” Maybe there is some positive benefit to the...

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