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Do you have too many priorities competing for your time and attention both at work and at home? When did life get so complicated? Increasingly, each of us finds ourselves juggling too many tasks with too little time or resources to get it all done. In this insightful program, veteran professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson offers new perspectives and techniques for you to manage all that's on your plate and still have a life for the rest of your day.

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.

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.

What would your life look like if you had breathing space - the ability to tackle problems and challenges as they arise, the space and freedom to engage in conceptual and innovative thinking, and a sense of control and ease about each day? In this insightful session, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson lays out a plan for you to have a greater sense and experience of breathing space in your life.

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.

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.

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.”

Are you frustrated by your own tendency to put things off until they become major issues? Kick that procrastination habit in one minute flat! There is no better time than the present to get motivated and get organized! The 60 Second Procrastinator is a simple, effective, hands-on guide that you can use to dismantle habits and mindsets that are barriers to productivity.

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.

In this ultra-hectic world with exponential population growth, an explosion of information, worldwide media coverage, ever-increasing piles of paper, and an overabundance of choices, any of us can feel overwhelmed at any given time. Yet it is both vital and entirely possible to carve out a sense, and an experience, of breathing space on a reoccurring basis. In this breakthrough program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson discusses 14 signs of having breathing space in your life and how to prevail in each area.

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.

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.

Practically everyone collects something, and many of us have several different types of collections. When do collections, however, become problematic? When do we say, "This is enough, I've got too much, my collection is getting out of hand"? In this program, author and professional speaker Jeff Davidson, who has addressed this very issue to packed audiences on cruise ships, explains why we collect, what we tend to collect, and most importantly, what we can do to keep our collections under control.

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.

The phrase “getting things done” is almost a rallying cry for a generation of career professionals striving to make their mark on the world. In this program, Jeff Davidson, author of 56 mainstream books, 260 e-books, and 24 iPhone apps, discusses the nuances of what he does to maintain high personal productivity hour after hour, day after day. It's the little things that count, and Jeff shares oodles of tips, tactics, and strategies to help you become more efficient, more effective, and more accomplished starting right now.

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.

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.

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.

Selling is one of the most difficult professions. Who wants to be in a line of work where the typical response is “no?” Who wants to encounter rejection day in and day out? Effective salespeople face this scenario all the time. Hence, it’s understandable when, on occasion, procrastination arises. Yet, with everyday techniques that anyone can master, no sales professional needs to be shackled by procrastination. In this session, professional speaker and author Jeff Davidson offers a variety of hands-on techniques....

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.