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Many executives and entrepreneurs today are finding it increasingly difficult to make decisions, even lowlevel decisions. Why? They are bombarded by too much information, which can get in the way of effective decisionmaking. In this innovative session, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson outlines three basic strategies for avoiding the paralysis of analysis, thus making decisions faster and easier.

Achieving work-life balance seems to be a goal that eludes most people today, though many crave it. In this ultra-hectic world, with so much competing for your time and attention, how do you create a sense of control at work, home, and every place in between? In this illuminating session, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson, who has written such books at Simpler Living, Breathing Space, and The 60 Second Self-Starter, lays out a plan for achieving work-life balance based on lessons in nine categories.

Email has become the great blessing, as well as the great curse, of today’s career professionals. Each of us is deluged by more messages coming in than we can comfortably respond to. How can we better manage email so as to better manage our day and our time? In this compelling session, professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has written such popular books as Breathing Space, Simpler Living, The Ten Minute Guide to Managing Time, and The 60 Second Organizer, lays out a plan to help you get started immediately.

The more things that compete for your time and attention, the larger even small tasks loom perceptually. Everyone today feels the enormity of what they need to get done. Yet, many of the items that you face require only a few minutes each. It's not that bad. In this two-hour innovative, humorous, high-energy program, you can learn to vanquish procrastination with the best of them!

Here is a riveting 32-minute presentation, recorded live, on how to find grace and ease, even within the most hectic environments. Humorous, insightful, and uplifting.

Are you plagued with constantly running out of time? Would you like to squeeze more time out of every day? Not to worry - now you can tap these ingenious strategies to launch your productivity to new heights. By the time you've finished this program, you'll know just how to smash your deadlines and power through your most challenging tasks. This program teaches you the difference between settling for mediocre results and achieving resounding success by becoming the master of your time.

"Time Management” - the term is old, but the concepts in this audio series are strikingly new. No matter where you work or what your responsibilities happen to be, it’s likely that you're facing recurring time pressure. You need fresh approaches to stay on control! In three illuminating audios, Jeff Davidson, The Work-Life Balance Expert and the premier thought leader on work-life balance issues, explains why interruptions and worn-out notions about time management represent your greatest productivity obstacles today.

Would like you to be known as the office whiz? Would you like to be selected for the best teams? Would you like to secure your place in your organization and look forward to raises and promotions? At work, your competence, your brilliance, and your sheer productivity speak volumes to others. In these four thought-provoking sessions, mega-author and popular conference speaker Jeff Davidson spells out the essence of what it takes to become a superstar at work.

Technology was supposed to make us ultra-efficient, thereby enabling us to finish our projects and tasks faster and have more leisure time! How is that working out for you? Actually, as the pace of work and life accelerates, people everywhere find themselves striving for solutions to the constant time-pressure that they encounter. Jeff Davidson, the sole person on Earth designated by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office as The Work-Life Balance Expert, delivers four programs to help you get on the road to a work-life balance.

You know that you need to keep your career on an upward trajectory, but how can you do that productively considering everything else that you’re already handling? In this sterling four-pack, you’ll discover what makes for a vibrant career, and learn fundamentals for getting there. Author Jeff Davidson reveals time-tested tips and as well as cutting-edge ideas to help move to the front of the pack, including programs on Advancing Your Career.

Many people have goals focused on career achievements or net worth. Far fewer have goals related to the quality of life. In this innovative program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses the importance of establishing work-life balance goals such as identifying the number of relaxing weekends you want to experience within a month, determining how much sleep you want to have each night, and targeting your resting pulse per minute.

In this riveting session, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson discusses harnessing the power of opportune moments throughout the year and your career to practice simplification. Jeff begins by offering global observations. For example, on the path to simplifying their lives, everybody continues to be bombarded by more stuff competing for their attention. As such, he discusses how to take everything in stride. He then explains key tactics such as paring down, subscribing to less, recycling, and reclaiming your places and spaces.

If only life came with an instruction book. Each of us has surrogate parents, teachers, coaches, trainers, and others throughout life who impart essential wisdom to us; it comes piecemeal and in uneven flows. In this riveting session, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson lays down the twelve hard and fast rules of life that he has been able to assemble as a result of his journey, and he offers them in an enjoyable and entertaining way.

When speaking to groups, one of the surefire techniques that you can employ to be effective is the use of stories. Stories have intrigued humankind since our earliest days as cave dwellers. Regardless of what you’re trying to achieve, telling the audience a story increases their propensity to be attentive.In this captivating session, professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has addressed nearly eight hundred audiences in forty six states of the union and in six foreign countries, lays out exactly what it takes to effectively use stories with your audiences.

In this unique program, Jeff Davidson, author and professional speaker, discusses the key concepts on your path to being more productive at work and more focused on activities in your personal life—doing one thing at a time. Jeff has delivered this presentation to audiences around the world and, in fact, has trademarked the term “the art of doing one thing at a time.”

Whether you’re an author, a business professional, or you simply want to be better at harnessing the power of the written word, this program can help. The storytelling tools and writing techniques contained here will help you manipulate words on paper to your greatest advantage. You’ll understand the power of using a story, a quote, or some powerful hook to rope in the reader from the very first paragraph. You’ll also learn why it’s important to understand who the reader is, what he or she needs, and how you can best convey your point.

In your quest to save time, the information you encounter in books and articles sometimes represents the opposite of what you're seeking to achieve. In this illuminating program, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson exposes a variety of false timesavers tips and techniques you might have come across that offer little, if anything, in the way of benefit. He then provides an array of true timesaving techniques for this hectic era.

Despite our ever-increasing reliance on mobile technology, most people spend at least some time during the week at a desk. Being organized and effective at your desk can make a dramatic difference in your productivity and promotability. In this revealing program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses the ten commandments of deskmanship that first appeared in his book Breathing Space: Living and Working at a Comfortable Pace in a Sped-Up Society.

Does it feel like sometimes others at work are not listening to you? Or if they are listening to you, they don't act on what you say? Is it hard for you to get people's attention? Do you say "yes" when you would prefer to say "no"? If these and related issues have been tugging on your mind, perhaps you need to be more assertive. You're not alone. If it's always been hard for you to get the attention of others, to be heard, or to be followed, take heed. Many people feel the same way. Today many people are finding themselves being increasingly not heard.

Does it seem as if your days are racing by? No matter what you do, does it seem that time is speeding up? If so, you’re part of a huge number of career professionals who inadvertently are undertaking many of the same practices and behaviors that contribute to the perception of time speeding up. In this remarkable program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses 21 habits, activities, and perceptions that lead us to believe our day is racing by. As Jeff describes each of these 21 areas, you’ll begin to know and understand why it’s important to avoid them.