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I don’t know about you, but a typical day at the office for me revolves around a lot of different things that seem to need my attention all at once. From answering phone calls, to sending emails, to completing my daily tasks. I constantly find myself going back and forth to each of these and often find it challenging to complete a task before I am interrupted by something else. With multitasking being such a prominent part of my daily experience I found the section on time management to be very helpful and interesting.

Chet’s six tips on time management are:

• Touch It Once: Do not revisit tasks, if you touch it take action and complete that task.
• Make Lists: Lists help you stay focused and prioritize.
• Plan How Much Time You Will Allocate to Each Task: This helps you manage your daily tasks and dedicate enough time to accomplish them.
• Plan The Day: Give yourself a time frame to work on and complete each of the things on your list.
• Prioritize: Start with your most important and difficult task. By completing it first you will feel a tremendous sense of control and accomplishment having checked the biggest thing off your list.
• Ask Yourself, “Will it Hurt me to throw this away?”: Clutter hurts your productivity. Studies show that 80% of all filed or stored information is never referred to again. So throw it away!!

I hope you apply these six steps to assist you in completing your tasks efficiently. I know they are going to help me manage my time and be more productive on a daily basis.

• The Myth of the Rational Market: A History of Risk, Reward, and Delusion on Wall Street
• Fool’s Gold: How the Bold Dream of a Small Tribe at J.P. Morgan Was Corrupted by Wall Street Greed and Unleashed a Catastrophe
• Shop Class as Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value of Work
• How Did That Happen?: Holding People Accountable for Results the Positive, Principled Way
• Rapt: Attention and the Focused Life
• In Fed We Trust: Ben Bernanke’s War on the Great Panic
• Trust Agents: Using the Web to Build Influence, Improve Reputation, and Earn Trust
• Animal Spirits: How Human Psychology Drives the Economy, and Why It Matters for Global Capitalism
• SuperCorp: How Vanguard Companies Create Innovation, Profits, Growth, and Social Good
• Ignore Everybody: and 39 Other Keys to Creativity

Some suggest that several traits and experiences common to dyslexics converge to create this tendency towards entrepreneurial activity. People who are dyslexic often excel in the one of the fine arts, see abstract patterns where others would not, rely on delegating to get certain things done, prefer to get straight to the point when reading and writing, they value doing rather than studying, show high levels of creative thinking skills, and have experienced failure and bounced back—all fantastic traits for entrepreneurs.

Here are a few very successful famous entrepreneurs who identify themselves as dyslexic: Richard Branson (Virgin), Charles Schwab (Charles Schwab), Ted Turner (Turner Broadcasting), John Chambers (Cisco), Henry Ford (Ford Motor Company), Paul Orfalea (Kinko’s).

If this topic interests you be sure to check out the book written by Paul Orfalea, the founder of Kinko’s called Copy This!: Lessons from a Hyperactive Dyslexic who Turned One Bright Idea Into One of America’s Best Companies.

Some of the topics covered are:

• Tax Basics
• Deductions
• General Book Keeping and Accounting
• C-Corporations taxation overview
• S-Corporations taxation overview
• LLC’s
• Retirement plans
• Buying & Selling a business

Many clients have told me that reading this book has helped them to get more out of meetings with their accountants, since they had a better understanding of the tax related matters. To purchase this book, click HERE.