Focus – Goal setting and effective time management to handle stress 

Rome did not fall due to the events of a single day. It was a combination of many small events. Employers lose customers and money when employees don’t accomplish all their assigned tasks each day. Tim ‘sells’ listeners on the importance of returning to the basics. Make a list of the today’s tasks. Prioritize them as vital, important and routine. Eliminate the “important and routine”. Start with the MOST Vital task and complete it. Move to the NEXT Vital task and complete it. When tasks take a great deal of time or effort, break them down into smaller chunks. If you’re having trouble accomplishing everything your boss wants you to accomplish, talk with the boss about it. Reference is made to daily planners and time management software, and the proper ways to use them. Companies benefit with more efficient employees. 

Employers value the consistent long-term employee more than they value the high achiever who ‘runs out of gas’ in a year or so. Consistent employees visualize themselves getting all they want by faithfully performing their daily tasks. High achievers who ‘run out of gas’ have simply lost their focus. Tim helps listeners see how they can successfully set and achieve their personal, as well as professional goals. Listeners are shown exactly how to go through logical daily steps to reach goals for this year, 5 years and 20 years from now. Companies benefit by renewed commitment from employees who see themselves as getting what they want out of life by working where they work. 

Employees feeling the pressures of deadlines and projections sometimes lose their composure over the ‘least little thing’. Tim explores with listeners the reality that each of us has an imaginary “line in the sand” that serves as our own personal ‘last straw’. How we respond when pushed beyond that line determines our value in the market place. Listeners are encouraged to see themselves as ‘fun to be around’, ‘friendly’ and ‘good examples’. Simple hints, such as “wait 30 minutes before responding, rather than angrily striking back immediately” are shared with the audience. Companies benefit with employees focused on work, rather than their personal problems with co-workers.