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Zusatztext "This book contains a ton of practical and easy-to-implement techniques and strategies for getting yourself to do whatever needs to be done." --Jack Canfield! coauthor of The Success Principles and the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Informationen zum Autor Steve Levinson, Ph.D., is a licensed clinical psychologist and inventor who specializes in helping people follow through on their own good intentions. Chris Cooper is an internationally recognized business expert, entrepreneur, and popular radio show host who has achieved remarkable success by using the principles and strategies revealed in this book. Klappentext Turn your good intentions into action. "This book contains a ton of practical and easy-to-implement techniques and strategies for getting yourself to do whatever needs to be done." --Jack Canfield, coauthor of The Success Principles and the bestselling Chicken Soup for the Soul series. Whether you run your own business or work for someone else, you've probably got a lot on your plate. Along with the portion of your work that you truly feel like doing comes a generous helping of things you'd rather not do. As consultants, Steve Levinson and Chris Cooper have seen countless clients struggle-and often fail-to do the many success-producing things they know they should do but don't feel like doing. The Power to Get Things Done will teach you how to consistently turn your good intentions into action so that you can be as successful as possible in the work you do. Don't feel like filing those pesky tax forms or making the follow-up calls you've been putting off? The Power to Get Things Done will show you how to get yourself--and keep yourself--in gear. Levinson and Cooper offer you a host of practical solutions, including: • the smart way to think about and treat your own good intentions • three key principles of following through that will change everything • simple but powerful principles and strategies that will turn you into a follow-through champion. Leseprobe FOREWORD Whether you’re in business for yourself or you work for a company, the better able you are to do what you intend to do, whether you feel like it or not, the more successful you’re likely to be. Without a doubt, the ability to turn good intentions into action is one of the most valuable assets that anyone who is serious about success can have. Clearly, however, some of us are naturally better at this than others, and a rare few are even blessed with built-in unstoppable determination; they are veritable productivity machines. For them, there’s no space at all between a good intention and the action it calls for. If they decide something should be done, they just do it—whether they feel like it or not. But what if, like most of us, your determination is anything but unstoppable? What if you’re not naturally driven to instantly turn every good intention into action? What if, like most people who want to be successful, you sometimes—maybe even often—know exactly what you should do but still put off doing it, or do it without the enthusiasm and energy it takes to do it well, or never even get around to doing it at all? What can we do about this? How do we make ourselves do the things we know we should do but don’t feel like doing? Are you simply doomed to settle for less success? With this book, Levinson and Cooper provide the answers to these questions and more. They explain that just because you may not be a natural-born success machine with built-in, unstoppable determination, it most certainly does not mean you have to settle. You can improve your ability to turn your good intentions into success-producing action, and no, you don’t need a brain transplant, a personality transfusion, or years of therapy. All it takes is knowing how ...
