Managing your attention means you can get more out of your day. In a world that is full of distractions trying to get your attention we must treat it as a commoditiy. Feel and be more productive by using the 80/20 principle for maximum results. There are many tools you can use to help achieve this goal, but the idea is to manage your attention so you can feel a sense of accomplishment. Attention Mangement is economy.

1. Time and Attention Management
Understanding, attention, is the new
Economy and how to get focused.
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2. Welcome to a
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3. Defining a leader
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4. Leaders use time effectively &
are personally disciplined.
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5. Act with
can be trusted, do not let you down.
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6. Are able to respond and make
quick decisions rather then react.
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7. See things from other points of view.
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8. Lead by example
They become the change they want to see.
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9. Common Leadership Challenges
Managing Competing Tasks Responding vs. Reacting
Work/Life Balance Empowering Others
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10. Beneficial areas of focus
Time & Attention
Emotional Intelligence
Coaching Skills
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11. ATTENTION management?
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12. Attention Economy
Attention economics:
An approach to the management of
information, that treats human
attention as a scarce commodity, and
applies economic theory.
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13. What is the significance of one hour of your attention, what
about 30 minutes?
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14. Where does the time go?
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15. Information Overload
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16. Information Avalanche
1750-1900 150 years to double
1900-1950 50 years to double
1950-1960 10 years to double
1960-1992 5 years to double
Estimates have the sum of all
human knowledge doubling at the
rate of every 24 months.
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17. Distractions & Interruptions
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18. In 2007, a group of
Microsoft workers, took
on average 15 minutes to
return to serious tasks,
after dealing with
incoming e-mail, if they
returned at all. *
New York Times
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19. Executives waste six weeks per year searching for lost
documents. From a survey of 2,600 executives by Esselte,
maker of Pendaflex and Dymo. FastCompany Magazine, 8/2004
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21. Managing Competing Tasks
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22. Recent studies at the University of London,
Show that your IQ falls 10 points when you’re
fielding constant e-mails, text messages, and calls.
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23. The same loss as losing a night’s sleep,
and more then double the point loss of
smoking marijuana.
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24. On a typical day, office workers are
interrupted about seven times an hour,
which adds up to 56 interruptions a
day, 80% of which are considered
trivial, according to time-management
experts.
Wendy Cole, TIME Magazine, 10/11/2004
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25. Solutions
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26. The info limit, internet research,
media, non-fiction.
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27. Avoid and Eliminate
Distractions (Turn off and Tune In)
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29. Minimize multitasking.
focus and complete individual tasks,
whenever possible.
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31. Use Communication to your advantage.
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32. Requester
Is this urgent?
When does this need to be done?
What is the level of priority?
What needs to be accomplished?
Can you give me a moment, and I will be right with you?
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33. Requesting
Is this a good time?
Do you have a moment?
Did I catch you at a bad time?
Can we schedule some time to go over this?
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34. Set boundaries
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35. Boundary Tools
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36. Schedules
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37. Time Blocks
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38. Appointments
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39. Meeting Time Limits
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40. Agendas
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41. Be Pro-Active
I will be working on an important project for a couple
hours, so please hold your questions, write them down and
I will meet with you at this time.
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42. Let people know if they should stop, enter carefully, or come right in.
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43. Respond using AADC
Acknowledge
Ask
Determine
Communicate
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44. Acknowledge the person,
question,request.
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45. Ask questions, find out level
of priority, is it urgent, what
does it require of you.
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46. Determine what, when, how
you will approach it.
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47. Communicate it be clear on
whether you will handle it now,
in an hour or in five minutes.
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48. Steps to Success
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49. Get Organized
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50. Make Vilfredo
Proud!
Consolidate Like Tasks
If you focus 20% of your energy in one place,
you will get 80% of your results. Pereto’s theory.
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51. Prioritize: Do it, Delegate it,
Defer it, or Dump it.
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52. Schedule in your tasks
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53. Set whatever tasks you should
repeat, on auto-pilot. Including
weekly scheduling.
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54. Stick to the time blocks;
take advantage of the 80/20
principle.
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55. If you do nothing else. Schedule a
repeat time once a week, to get
organized, and focus on your week.
Stick to it, for awesome results.
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56. “We are what we repeatedly do.
Excellence then, is not an act,
but a habit.”
-Aristotle
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