From the Author

You wouldn’t attempt a do-it-yourself project without the proper tools, and you wouldn’t know if you had the proper tools unless you took an inventory of some kind – just to see what tools you have and what other tools you might need.

It’s the same with your efforts to be more productive and successful, except here the “tools” are your personal inventory of such attributes as:

Characteristics,

Skills,

Knowledge, and

Preferences.

The results of this personal inventory will help you recognize the various directions you might want to pursue with your work and your life, and the various steps you might want to take to facilitate your progress in those directions.

Your personal inventory should count up and consider the following:

As I have said before, unless you’re working in a cave somewhere, cut off from the internet and other means of communication, your productivity and success depend at least to some extent on the productivity and success of other people. But simply hoping for them to help you is usually a losing strategy. Instead, what

You’re probably aware that improving your productivity and success is dependent not only on your own efforts, but on your ability to work with and obtain top results from the efforts of others. That automatically brings up the issues of conflict. Conflict with others is a natural and inevitable result of being human. Since we’re

Dissatisfaction. Disappointment. Failure. Rejection. These are “facts of life” for people on Planet Earth. In fact, if you don’t experience some of these feelings, some of the time, you probably aren’t fully engaged in the exciting activities of living. So the goal should not be to avoid these devastating feelings, but rather to be sure