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KISS Guide to Organizing Your Life (Keep It Simple Series) [Paperback]

Donald Wetmore (Author)
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0789480727 978-0789480729 December 1, 2001 1st
Kiss the competition goodbye! The only guide you'll ever need to get more done in less time with less stress. Enjoy an exciting, self-paced journey to a more balanced life at work and at home. Discover how to overcome stumbling blocks to greater personal productivity. Find out how to eliminate time-wasters. Learn how to prioritize and delegate tasks. The Keep It Simple Series is the new standard in how-to books! Written by leading experts, each book includes full-color photographs and illustrations throughout, making these the first and only truly accessible guides for beginners. The KISS format is designed to help readers build confidence from the start, and learn gradually and thoroughly to the very last page. Much more than introductions to various subjects, these inspiring and innovative books are the ones that readers can trust!


Product Details

  • Paperback: 352 pages
  • Publisher: DK ADULT; 1st edition (December 1, 2001)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 0789480727
  • ISBN-13: 978-0789480729
  • Product Dimensions: 9.1 x 7.4 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 2.3 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (5 customer reviews)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #660,125 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Dr. Wetmore received his Bachelor's Degree in Accounting from Bentley College, his Master's Degree in Business Administration from Babson College, and his Juris Doctor Degree from Suffolk University Law School.

Dr. Wetmore is an attorney, an entrepreneur having started over twenty-five businesses and is a member of the faculty at Mercy College's MBA program in Dobbs Ferry, New York, where he has served as Assistant Professor of Business Law and Department Chair for the undergraduate and graduate divisions. He is the author of "Beat the Clock", "Organizing Your Life", "The Productivity Handbook" and over 100 of published articles. He is frequently interviewed by major media including ABC Radio, The New York Times, and the Dallas Morning News. He has appeared extensively on radio and television and served as the host of the cable TV program, "It's the Law".

In 1984, Dr. Wetmore created the Productivity Institute to conduct his original and unique Time Management and Personal Productivity seminars for organizations from around the world. Having been in the field of Time Management for many years, Dr. Wetmore created his programs to address the specific Time Management needs of all who want more out of life. In his time management and speed reading seminars, coaching, keynotes, and consulting, he teaches participants how to significantly increase their personal productivity, both on and off the job, and accomplish more in less time with less stress with greater work/life balance. His presentations are always entertaining, fast-paced, and filled with practical, common sense tools. His audiences say, "He is one of the funniest and most engaging speakers available today." He is recognized as one of the country's leading authorities on the topics of Time Management and Personal Productivity.

Dr. Wetmore has made over two-thousand public speaking presentations before more than 100,000 people from around the Globe, sharing his unique philosophy about the Time Management and Personal Productivity principles and tools he has created motivating his audiences to advance in their own lives.

Dr. Wetmore and his wife Nancy are the parents of four children, each of whom is an excellent time manager.


 

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5.0 out of 5 stars Enjoy the journey to a better organized life, December 31, 2001
This review is from: KISS Guide to Organizing Your Life (Keep It Simple Series) (Paperback)
As a professional speaker and author of several books on presentation skills and public speaking, I have always had a keen appreciation for the management of time. In fact, I had the privilege of participating in one of Don Wetmore's three day programs about 10 years ago, and still use his strategies today in my own business. My most recent book, 10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking (Warner Books, 2001) would not have been completed on time if I hadn't been well organized. As an international professional speaker, I spend a lot of time traveling and I know from first hand experience that there is a correlation between good time management and career success. Th opposite is true as well. Failing to manage your time will limit your opportunities for success.

Beyond career success, however, managing your time effectively permits you to do more of the things you want to do and enjoy a better quality of life every day-both at work and at home. The K.I.S.S. Guide to Organizing Your Life guides you along the path to more effective time management, starting with the important step of balancing your life. After all, good time management isn't based on doing the wrong things quicker-that just gets you nowhere faster. Instead, this guide show you how to achieve better balance in every aspect of your life.

Don has taken a complex topic and boiled it down to a simple step-by-step plan that can be readily implemented by all readers-and I like that. There's enough complexity in your life already; the last thing you need is an even more complex and cumbersome system to manage it! Luckily, Don has devised a easy-to-implement, 20-step action plan to organize your life. In fact, if you follow one of Don'd steps each weekday for the next four weeks, you will be surprised by the enormous strides you'll make toward managing-and enjoying-tasks and responsibilities that may have once seemed overwhelming.

The methods Don writes about, and uses every day, are not lofty theory, but, rather, practical, common sense tools and techniques that he has tested himself; If they work for him-and they can work for you, too.

Lenny Laskowski, Author of National Best Selling Book:
"10 Days to More Confident Public Speaking"
President of LJL Seminars(tm)

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11 of 11 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Just Do It!, May 29, 2002
This review is from: KISS Guide to Organizing Your Life (Keep It Simple Series) (Paperback)
Don Wetmore's "Guide to Organizing your Life" is a well-thought out, thorough and easy-to-read time management book. If you read and implement even a quarter of the strategies, you would have many more hours in your day and much less stress as a result!

One of the most useful aspects of this book is its interactive exercises: the reader identifies their own strengths and weaknesses and is then provided with concrete, practical ways to develop better habits. Readers are empowered to live on purpose and always be thinking "what's in it. . . for me!"

I personally liked the weblinks that provided me with more or related information about each of the topics. The book is colorful with many photos that encourage a reader to keep reading.

I highly receommend this book for everyone: those who have never taken a time management course before AND those who have. It is a thorough book with lots for everyone.

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6 of 6 people found the following review helpful:
5.0 out of 5 stars Great ideas - Great Book, October 4, 2003
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Keeping things organized and getting things done have always been difficult for me. I found Don's book very easy to read. It has some phenomenal tips and practical ideas that can be implemented right away. In today's hectic world, it is refreshing to find a book that helps to make life easier. I keep it by my nightstand and refer to it frequently, as it can be read straight through, or in bits and pieces by subject matter. The back of the book has a wonderful index that makes it easy to find what you're looking for. There is also a preferred reading list and a list of useful web sites. I recommend it for anyone who needs more organization in their life.
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WE ALL SEEM TO HAVE too much to do, which says a lot of nice things about us because it means we're entrusted with many responsibilities. Read the first page
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seven vital areas, personal productivity system, irritations list, one little improvement, interruptions log, interruption item, prioritizing system, reverse delegation, management log, tank operator
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