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           Simplify
          your time
                       stop running & start living!

                                   TABLE OF CONTENTS

Day 1     Today Is the Time of Your Life

                                        Week 1
          Time-Saving Habits to Simplify Your Daily Life

Day 2     Punch Up Your Punctuality
Day 3     Save Time with Two-Minute Pickups
Day 4     Get Off Your Computer and On with Your Life
Day 5     Power Through Your Paperwork
Day 6     Clean Up the Clutter
Day 7     Plan Tomorrow the Night Before
Day 8     Change a Habit, Change Your Life

                                            Week 2
           Time-Saving Tools to Simplify Managing Your Time

Day 9      Capture More Time with Your Calendar
Day 10     Fine-Tune Your To-Do List
Day 11     Pursue a Personal Project List
Day 12     Put It All Together in a Planner
Day 13     Practice the Power of Prioritizing
Day 14     Spruce Up Your Support Tools
Day 15     Create Weekly Time-Saving Routines

                                       Week 3
            Time-Saving Skills to Simplify Your Lifestyle

Day 16     Take Time for Relationships
Day 17     Simply Find More Personal Time
Day 18     Discover Your Rhythm for Each Week
Day 19     Master the Secrets of Successful Multitasking
Day 20     Overcome When You’re Overwhelmed
Day 21     Learn to Delegate and Say No
Day 22     Take Some Downtime Each Day

                                  Week 4
           Time-Saving Strategies to Simplify Your Future

Day 23     Jump-Start Your Dreams with a Five-Year Calendar
Day 24     Upgrade Your P.Q. (Project Quotient)
Day 25     Do Less to Accomplish More
Day 26     Go for Goals That Simplify Your Life
Day 27     Ensure Your Future with a Strong Network
Day 28     Stop Time to Handle a Life Crisis
Day 29     Make Today the Best Day of Your Life
Day 30     Start Living—Today!

    Time Management Resources
    About the Author

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                                              Day 1

                       Today Is the Time of Your Life
                                   (Excerpt from book)
                                           

                                 Being rich is having money;
                                being wealthy is having time.

                                     —Margaret Bonnano

        “Hi, honey. All 168 boxes are packed and ready to go.” I held the
phone in one hand and sank into a chair after two long days with
the movers. I was relieved to tell my husband that all of our
belongings and I would soon join him. David was already in
California while I was closing things out at our home in New York
after our decision to move across the country for his new job.
Our three teens would join us later that week from camp.

        As we talked, I suddenly noticed a gaping hole with only the
prongs standing upright on my engagement ring. I gasped and
almost dropped the phone. “Oh no! My diamond is missing! David,
you won’t believe it. It’s gone!”

        At that moment, a million thoughts raced through my mind.
Where did I lose it? The movers had just spent two days
packing four thousand square feet of our home, and the
boxes were ready to be picked up and delivered. I could
just picture our three teenagers unpacking the boxes at
the other end and me distraught with agony, scolding
them, “Be careful. My diamond could be in there.”

        I knew I didn’t want to add any more tension than we
already felt. So I took a deep breath and spoke to David
in a calm voice. “OK. What do I do now? Was it insured?”

        “No,” David said, “but don’t worry, just come. Everything
is great here in California.”

        “What?! It’s not insured?” I didn’t know whether to
scream or cry. This was no ordinary gem. My husband had
picked out the diamond especially for me when he was a
college student traveling through Europe with his family.

                          Was That My Only Diamond?

        That night I went to dinner with friends and their two sons, and
I told them my dilemma. “We’ll go back and find it,” offered one
of the boys. Their parents were eager to come too. However, there
was one obstacle—no lights in the house. “No problem, we’ll bring
flashlights,” they volunteered.

        After dinner, the five of us went back to our empty home.
In the darkness, we focused our flashlights on every step
we took. “Where were you today?” my friend asked.

        I remembered going up the attic steps, so we decided to start
there. Carefully, we unfolded the stairs from the ceiling and
creaked up one step at a time. Then down the stairs. Next we
explored the bedroom . . . the family room . . . the kitchen . .
. the living room. As we walked carefully through the last room,
I began to lose hope of ever seeing my diamond again.

        I paused to regain my thoughts and asked of no one in
particular, “Now what would this diamond look like?” I
glanced down at the carpet tweeds. “It would look like
this,” I said, as I spied something shiny like a piece of
plastic wrap. When I picked it up, it held its shape. It
was my diamond!

        There it was—just sitting at the foot of the attic
folding stairs. All five of us had been up and down that
stairway looking for it, yet we missed it. Thankfully, I
now had a second chance to appreciate my treasure.

                                             Time-Saving Tip #1
    If I have a clear mental picture of what I’m looking for,
                         I can take steps to find it.

       Time Management Lessons from My Diamond Hunt

        I learned some lessons from that emotion-packed diamond hunt that
relate to our topic of simplifying time:

        Lesson #1: What I didn’t know was costly. As a starry-eyed
fiancée, I must have missed the instructions to regularly check
the prongs holding the diamond. Regular maintenance would have
saved me from a crisis at a critical moment in life.

        In time management, there are some basic rules, tools,
and skills you need to keep your life running smoothly
too. Don’t wait for a crisis to realize you missed some
important steps. You’ll learn them in this book.

        Lesson #2: I took it for granted. I was wearing my diamond every
day, but not really seeing it. I liked knowing it was there, but
I didn’t realize I needed to take better care of it.

        Something similar can happen with time. We use time every
day, but we don’t realize it can get away from us if we
don’t manage it well.

        Lesson #3: When I knew what I was looking for, I found it. I
thought I knew what my diamond would look like, but I missed it
several times. Until I focused on the gem’s qualities of size,
shape, and color, it remained lost to me.

        To simplify your time, you need a clear picture of what
you want to find, such as an hour a day to rest or read,
an evening a week to meet with friends, or a weekend a
month to focus on a hobby or to take a trip. Without
attention to your personal goals, you’ll never “find” the
time to do these things.

        It takes insight and new perspective to see what we have
missed. In this book, I will give you both.

                                        Time-Saving Tip #2
             Remember time is on your side if you use it well.
   But it works against you if you bite off more than you can chew.

          Your Time Is Simple; Your Life Is Not

        If practice makes perfect, then we should be awesome time
managers! After all, we have been using time every day of our
lives. So why aren’t we experts at using our time? Because life
happens to us. Because we get fuzzy and unfocused. Because we get
tired of the “have-tos” and prefer the “want-tos” but get trapped
in the “never-get-around-tos.” And before we realize it, we run
out of time.

        When you need more time, where do you go to get it? There
are no ATMs or banks for time deposits or withdrawals.
But there is something you can do: redistribute your
commitments and spend time where you want to. You have 24
hours a day, 168 hours per week, and 8,736 hours per
year. They contain all the time you need to achieve the
hopes and dreams you were created for––one day at a time.

                                Time-Saving Tip #3
        You can add time to your life by deleting an activity that is
unproductive. But you multiply your time when you add
                an activity that energizes you.

                       Simplify Your Time—How?

        To simplify your time, you need to look at the key strategies
used by successful time managers, people much like you. These
strategies comprise four main categories, and I’ve chosen one
focus per week. Under each category, we’ll look at one key skill
each day that you can immediately put into practice to simplify
your time.
        Each week, you’ll save enough time to enjoy some extra
downtime––whether for work, family, or fun. By the end of
our thirty-day journey, you’ll be ready to plan future
goals and sail right through them.

(This excerpt is from "Simplify Your Time: Stop Running and Start Living!"
by Marcia Ramsland, W Publishing Sept 2006)

To order your autographed copy go to Simplify Your Time book .
 

                        Praise for Simplify Your Time

          “Marcia Ramsland's easy-to-read book will motivate you to create
the time you need to live the life you want. With over twenty
years of experience as a professional organizer, her eye-opening,
time-saving tools and tips will give you the insight to Simplify
Your Time and more!"
                                                                                        Barry J. Izsak
                  President, National Association of Professional Organizers
 

       “Time is all we have. Here’s a way to maximize it and get great results.”
                                                                                   Mark Victor Hansen
   Co-creator, #1 New York Times Best-selling series Chicken Soup for the Soul ®
   Co-author, Cracking the Millionaire Code and The One Minute Millionaire
 

         "No one ever said life is easy, but my friend and colleague
Marcia Ramsland really makes it simple. Follow her advice and
discover years of free time. I did!"
                                                                                         Dr. Denis Waitley
                                                                          Author, Timing is Everything


        “Who couldn’t use more time? Marcia’s book is like being given
the gift of time! Thanks Marcia, I hope millions of men and women
also get the gift of your book! “
                                                                                                   Pam Farrel
                  Speaker and Author,10 Best Decisions a Woman Can Make


          "I thought I knew a lot about time management until I read
Simplify Your Time. Marcia Ramsland has challenged me to get off
'the gerbil wheel of life' and to start developing routines and
systems that will make me more effective in my role as a wife,
mother, and business owner.

          "Every page is packed with stress-reducing and time-saving habits, tools, skills,
and strategies that will make me more productive when I'm working, and free of
guilt when I'm not. If you need more hours in your day, read this
noteworthy book!"
                                                                                                  Carol Kent
                        Speaker and Author, Becoming a Woman of Influence

          "Help! I want off the merry-go-round! My head is spinning, I'm going too fast.
I'm not sure I can keep up! If that's your cry, Marcia's book can help you
live a more balanced life. You will
find her short chapters very easy and quick to digest. A plus
feature to the book is her 101 Time Saving Tips. A must-read for
those who want to make sense of the maze of life.”
                                                                                                 Emilie Barnes
                              Speaker, Author, and Founder of More Hours in My Day

           "I loved "Simplify Your Life," Marcia's first book. I was so impressed that
I wrote her from my organized desk, "Now I'm ready for the next book."
And here it is! Now we have time to get things done and live the life we want."
                                                                                      Joanne Roller, C.P.C.
                                                                            Senior Recruiting Consultant

"After reading Marcia's suggestions, I am motivated to manage my
time. I never realized how much time we really do have control over."

                                                                                                  Ann Larson
                                                                          Tax Accountant and Author


          "So much to do with so little time, or so I once thought! As a homemaker, mom,
and with a part-time business at home, it’s overwhelming to have a full calendar
and a huge pile of projects that never seem to get done.

           "Marcia has changed all that with Simplify Your Time, teaching us to break it down
into smaller opportunities to be accomplished so we are not facing a mountain
of frustration – very needed."
                                                                                                     Tina Dearmont
                                                        Homemaker and Former Executive Assistant
 

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