Whenever possible I continue to spend time with my friend and Tekoil’s success coach, Tom Connellan, but that has been much less frequently of late? You may remember the blog on 05-18-2006, “Everyone Needs a Coach.”

In spending less time with Tom I have reminded myself that the easiest thing to say to educational pursuits is, “I haven’t got time, because I’m too busy and traveling”. It’s like going to the gym, it’s always easier to say “I don’t have time”, but that is never true. My wife reminds me of that constantly. It’s simply a lack of purpose and focus, which leads to lack of desire, which leads to a lack of commitment to manage ones time. We all have the same amount of time every day, so it comes down to choices.

Now I do not say this to Tom because I do really enjoy his mentoring, but very occasionally I may postpone our meetings with hint of a white lie, usually if Arsenal are playing!!

Anyway, Tom mentioned to Frank Clear our COO that he knows Tekoil is going through growing pains, and perhaps our management team might want to read an excellent book; “The 25 Best Time Management Tools and Techniques”, co-authored by Pamela Dodd and Doug Sundheim.

Having skim read the book it reminded me that like everyone else I need to brush up in some areas. You cannot read one book and have all of the answers, and success is a lifestyle not an event. The book is currently sold exclusively on www.amazon.com, and it is the #1 selling book under time management with a 5 star rating.

The book is broken down into 5 themes:

FOCUS
PLAN
ORGANIZE
TAKE ACTION
LEARN

This book will help you to get seriously focused, so if you don’t already have it “Get time management”!!! You will be much more productive and much happier in you pursuits.

I believe “Failure” is “simple errors in judgement repeated regularly over time”, smoking cigarettes for example. Success on the other hand is “simple disciplines repeated regularly over time”. And “EASY” by definition is something you can do. It’s easy to eat a hamburger and it’s easy to eat a salad, yet so many of us are clogging up our artery’s and prematurely heading towards cancer and death. Smoking 10 cigarettes today won’t kill you today, but repeated regularly over time it will!! But do not kid yourself, because although these choices seem simple, you must remember it’s “EASY NOT TO”. So read the book!!

And finally, I had to save the best until last and inform you that the author is sleeping with the publisher? Pamela is Tom’s wife and he also has his own publishing company, Peak Performance Press, Inc.

Tom is always full of good surprises! Get time Management.