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You might agree selling skills aren’t rare. Children have them as they prove when they ask you to do things, or buy them things. Yet only with the right attitude and mental blueprint for taking action can your salesperson raise your revenue. Isn‘t that what you want?

Secrets of the Millionaire Mind by T. Harv Eker

Ready, Fire, Aim by Michael Masterson

How I Raised Myself from Failure to Success in Selling by Frank Bettger

How to Master the Art of Selling by Tom Hopkins

How to Win Friends and Influence People by Dale Carnegie

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“What comes first, the compass or the clock? Before one can truly manage time (the clock), it is important to know where you are going, what your priorities and goals are, in which direction you are headed (the compass). Where you are headed is more important than how fast you are going. Rather than always focusing on what’s urgent, learn to focus on what is really important.”

— Anon.

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Sunday March 9th, 2008

Upcoming Productivity Software Review

Gaetano Caruana, Co-Founder of FruitfulTime, wrote to me.

He read this blog and asked me to review TaskManager v1.0.

I said I’d be delighted to and, due to other things on the go, would get his review to him by the end of this month. Then I sent him the link where it will be available once its published and entered it into my personal GTD system.

Apart from software, FruitfulTime publishes free self improvement content at blog.fruitfultime.com. I haven’t made it to the blog for more than a quick perusal yet. Last night, I delved into their decepitvely brief eBook, Stop Procastination Now.

It’s awesome. Really made me think. Yes, I am a fan of Dwight D. Eisenhower’s work on the “importance and urgency” matrix popularized by Stephen Covey in The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People. And I admit the complex, comprehensive methadology of Getting Things Done® by David Allen is the finest work I’ve ever seen on handling life in a world full of exploding information.

For quality of information, if not breadth, this eBook is up there. Focussed like a satellite GPS weapon targeting system on one thing, it nails the main reasons for procastination covered by the above authors, and adds more. It put great clarity to concepts I’d thought about, but never really grasped to the same extent or in a formalized way. It introduced new ones.

Very well thought out. Highly recommended. 4.5 stars out of 5, easy.

The book is 39 pages long, table of contents included, one-and-a-half line spacing, with lots of photos, and it’s free. It’s the equivalent of a stiff chapter in a larger book.

Read it all. And start now!

By Christoph Dollis at 5:00 PM on Sunday March 9th, 2008, and filed under GTD / Productivity, Software.

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