Change Your Day, Not Your Life E-Book

Andy Core

• Herausgeber: John Wiley & Sons
• Kategorie: Fachliteratur
• Sprache: Englisch

Seitenzahl: 267

Veröffentlichungsjahr: 2014

Beschreibung

Increase your employees'--and your own--productivity at work If you look out over today's workforce, you'll find millions of hard-working people who are overly tired, overly stressed, and less than enchanted with work. For organizations around the globe, this represents an incredible opportunity to improve productivity, talent retention, innovation, and overall profitability. The great paradox here is that when you take hard-working, responsible adults with a desire to succeed and a sense of responsibility and drop them into our demanding work culture, they tend to default to a way of life that sabotages their ability and best efforts to reach their goals. That's where author Andy Core comes in. Change Your Day, Not Your Life offers a proven strategy to help you become energized at work. This book is designed as a resource for work-life balance, a tool to help you increase productivity during the final two hours of work by up to 47 percent, content to fuel employee communication, and a curriculum that departments can use in weekly or monthly meetings to keep everyone working at their best. * Author Andy Core is a credentialed, award-winning thought leader on increasing employee engagement, productivity, and wellness motivation; his talent lies in helping hard-working, conscientious adults thrive at work and in their personal lives Turn wasted hours into tasks accomplished by following the methods found in Change Your Day, Not Your Life.

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Contents

Preface

Chapter 1: A Secret behind the Magic

Have You Ever Asked . . .

Chapter 2: Behavioral Momentum

What Behavioral Momentum Accomplishes

Things can be Turned Around

Shift Out of a Know-Be-Do Pattern

No Matter the Territory

Chapter 3: Hope Like a Thriver

The Renewing Power of Hope

Seek Out the One in Seven

Chapter 4: Stay in the Day

A Continual Cycle of Sabotage

The Paradox of Gaining More with Less Effort

Chapter 5: The Big Picture of Balance

The Stratum of Excellence

You are the CEO of You

What Won’t You Sacrifice?

Chapter 6: Jettison the Junk Hours

Identify and Eliminate the Junk

Time Exchanges

More Productivity Per Hour

It Isn’t all About Money

Chapter 7: Greater Self-Awareness

At Our Core

Know Your Rhythm and Capacity

Decisions and Choices

You Do Know the Right Choices to Make

The Self-Determination Theory

Chapter 8: The Pursuit of Patterns

Chapter 9: Breaking Down the Change Process

Focus on Just One Change

Chapter 10: Checklists and Big-Box Management

Keep the Flying Fortress in the Air

Making the Complex Simple

Never a Sign of Weakness

Going from To-Do to Done

Big-Box Management

At the End of the Day . . .

Big Boxes on a Clock Face

A Means of Managing Interruptions

A Different Kind of List to “Check”

Chapter 11: Triggers and Patterns

A Twofold Challenge

The By-Products of Practice

Four Things Mini-Patterns Can Do for You

Mini-Patterns Compel Additional Changes

Mini-Patterns Make Way for Creative Flashes

Chapter 12: Emerge from the Fog of Fatigue

How Much Struggle is Necessary?

Why Energy is Important to Work Success

The Three Vital Elements for Energy

Chapter 13: Maximizing Your Mini-Patterns

Mix it Up!

Use Journaling to Your Advantage

The Counterintuitive Starting Point

Chapter 14: Tips for Times When Demands are Exceptionally Great

Stay in Touch with Your Core

Remove or Eliminate Something

The Value of Socialization

Adopt a Mini-Pattern of Appreciation Conversations

Adopt Strategies for Energizing Yourself and Others Around You

Develop a Motive to “Serve”

Chapter 15: Staying in the Flow of the Process

Does the Finish Line Matter?

Consistency is What

Really

Matters

Chapter 16: Motives and Meaning

Infusing Meaning into Your Work

A Personal Evaluation

Meaning is Motivating, Even at Unseen Levels

Chapter 17: The Power of Attitude

Are You Hopeful?

Forgive Yesterday and Work on Today

Keep on Keeping on

Chapter 18: From a Change Underdog to a Challenge Winner

And Then There’s Mom . . .

More and More Great Days

About the Author

Change Your Day Resources

Index

End User License Agreement

List of Illustrations

FIGURE 8.1 The Core Four

FIGURE 8.2 Recency Bias

FIGURE 10.1 Big-Box Time Management

FIGURE 16.1 Meaning Pyramid

FIGURE 16.2 The Thriver Zone

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CHANGE YOUR DAY, NOT YOUR LIFE

A Realistic Guide to Sustained Motivation, More Productivity, and the Art of Working Well

ANDY CORE