Empowered Productivity

Discover the revolutionary antidote to overload and exhaustion Have you tried everything to become more productive-but you're still too busy and stressed? That's because the old approaches to productivity just don't work in today's fast-paced, tech-driven workplaces. What does work? Time management is outdated. Attention management is the solution you need. Attention management is the most essential skill you need to live a life of choice rather than a life of reaction and distraction. It's a collection of behaviors, including focus, mindfulness, control, presence, flow, and other skills, that will support your success. Productivity speaker, trainer, and author Maura Nevel Thomas shows you how to master attention management with practical strategies that make an immediate impact.

Trying to remember a bunch of details and tasks isn't the best use of your brainpower. By collecting all of your tasks in one place, you can reserve your mental energy for work that drives significant results, both in your professional life and your personal life. To start, productivity expert Maura Thomas takes us through an exercise called "brain dumping," which will clear your mind of all the things you're trying to remember you have to do-all the things that are distracting you or keeping you up at night. She then shows us the right way to use a calendar, the tools you'll need to succeed, and a better way of categorizing your tasks in order to identify the best use of your time and inspire you to take action. This is not another book on time management; this is a book on how to take back control of your busy life. Not only will you be focusing on the things that truly matter, but you'll also experience boosts in your mood and mindset-you'll feel more in control and less overwhelmed; you'll feel a greater sense of accomplishment now that you're focusing on what's truly important to you.

Get ready to learn how to conquer the distractions caused by information and communication overload, and how to get out from under "communication clutter," so you can live a life of choice-one of action, not reaction. Feeling buried by communication clutter is that it's that state of feeling like you are always owing return communication to someone. It's the subtle sense of anxiety caused by your backlog of email, taunting you with the little red indicators on the communication apps on your phone-texts, voicemails, missed calls, social media notifications-plus the mountain of outstanding email piling up in your inbox even as you read this.Want to live free of that feeling?! Get ready to dive in and live free of communication clutter! Positive results include: • Reduced anxiety caused by digital and paper clutter. • An ability to retrieve information you need quickly. • The opportunity to spend less time managing communication clutter and more time working toward your goals!

Be the leader your team wants to follow You want to be the kind of leader that leaves a legacy of positive impact. You want to lead an exceptional team so you can power your organization's success and unleash the hidden potential in every team member — including yourself! So how do you realize these goals? In this expansive guide, expert Maura Thomas explores how to combat insidious problems that are costing your organization millions. You can change the status quo with her step-by-step guidance to energize your team, and provide greater focus, transparency, and accountability in the organization. Leaders and aspiring leaders like you will discover how to not only extinguish, but prevent, the dozens of "fires" that pop up all day. You can transform a stressful culture into an empowering one, or a great culture into one where top talent is lining up to be a part of your team. Imagine having consistently productive and satisfying workdays, and contributing even more to the organization, but in a way that's inspiring and motivating instead of overwhelming and depleting. The techniques in this book will not only help you, your team and your organization, they'll boost your ability to contribute in a positive way to families, your community, and the world.