Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jurgen Wolff is the author of Your Writing Coach (Nicholas Brealey Publishing), Do Something Different (Virgin Books), and Successful Scriptwriting (Writers Digest Press, with Kerry Cox). He’s also written many articles, including a personal development column for the Times Educational Supplement.
He teaches workshops on personal development, time management, creativity, and writing around the world. Jurgen has lectured at the University of Southern California, for the Skyros Institute, the Academy for Chief Executives, and for Fremantle Media, the London School of Journalism, the European Media programme, and at private workshops in the United States, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, France, South Africa, Belgium, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jurgen is a Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner and a certified hypnotherapist and Time Line therapist. He is the author of our upcoming title, Creativity Now as well as, Series Editor for the For Entrepreneurs series and author of Marketing for Entrepreneurs.
Feeling distracted? Scattered? Time is slipping away from you? You’re not alone. But it doesn’t have to be that way. Using revolutionary time management techniques you will find out how to super charge your mind power and focus on what matters most - your goals and your achievements.
Focus shows you how to direct energy without distraction to the key tasks that lead you to success. Based on the latest research, these techniques make it easy for you to overcome information overload, stress and procrastination and concentrate on what’s really important.
Using these recent discoveries in time management, like how to achieve a state of flow that can lead to maximum achievement in minimum time, Focus will show you how you can move swiftly towards your most important goals.
The result: you reach your goals quickly and with less effort.
Contents
Foreword by Bob Cochran, co-creator of 24 vii
About the author ix
Introduction How creating focus will change your life xi
Part 1 Finding your focus
1 How to focus on your vital 20%
2 How to focus on your first goals
Part 2 Your focus strategies 35
3 How to focus your time patterns for success
4 How to overcome the obstacles to focus
5 How to focus on what already works
6 How to (finally) beat procrastination
Part 3 Your focus tools 93
7 How to use the Alter Ego strategy
8 How to manage other people
9 How to focus your language for extraordinary results
10 How to create information focus
11 How to conquer the paper mountain
12 How to tame the email monster
13 How to master meetings and networking
Part 4 Putting it all together 181
14 How to deal with deadlines and multiple projects
15 How to maintain your new found focus
16 The goals breakthrough experience
17 How to put it all together to reach all your goals
INTERNATIONAL BESTSELLER
In a world of constant distractions, we all need help to find our focus.
From the moment we wake up, we are bombarded with information. With so little time to concentrate, our performance levels are far from what they should be.
Focus: Use the power of targeted thinking to get more done is set to change your world.
Using revolutionary time management techniques and a new breakthrough strategy to help you see obstacles before they happen, you’ll find out how to find your focus, no matter what your distraction. Supercharge your mind power and achieve more than you ever thought possible.
Prepare to be amazed – and amazing.
“Deciding where and how to put your energy, hour-by-hour, day-by-day, is the only road to success. Focus will help you find that road and, more importantly, stay on it.”
Bob Cochran, co-creator of 24
More than just a book.
Log on to www.focusquick.com and discover an exciting multi-media package, including video interviews, diagnostics, mp3 and pdf downloads, blogs, podcasts and e-bulletins.
•Focus 1st edition has sold 17,168 copies since publication in May 2008 (TCM Nielsen Bookscan full year 2008 and 2009 to the end of Q3) and was Prentice Hall’s sixth bestselling title in the professional and personal development market in 2008.
• 20% more content than the first edition, revised throughout and an additional chapter called “The Breakthrough Strategy” which is based on new research and gives readers a programme on how they can set and achieve their goals in 60 days.
•New jacket and new subtitle that clearly demonstrates what the book is about.
• Author is highly marketable, he’s got a good writing track record and has appeared on TV and radio shows in the UK and US.
• The book is accompanied by multi-media support material video interviews, diagnostics, mp3 and PDF downloads, blog, podcasts and e-bulletins. All of this can be found on the author’s website www.focusquick.com
Produktdetaljer
Biografisk notat
Jurgen Wolff is the author of Your Writing Coach (Nicholas Brealey Publishing), Do Something Different (Virgin Books), and Successful Scriptwriting (Writers Digest Press, with Kerry Cox). He’s also written many articles, including a personal development column for the Times Educational Supplement.
He teaches workshops on personal development, time management, creativity, and writing around the world. Jurgen has lectured at the University of Southern California, for the Skyros Institute, the Academy for Chief Executives, and for Fremantle Media, the London School of Journalism, the European Media programme, and at private workshops in the United States, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, France, South Africa, Belgium, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.
Jurgen is a Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner and a certified hypnotherapist and Time Line therapist. He is the author of our upcoming title, Creativity Now as well as, Series Editor for the For Entrepreneurs series and author of Marketing for Entrepreneurs.