T I m e m a n a g e m e n t

T H E M O S T I M P O R TA N T
thing you do to increase your
value, improve your results, and make yourself more impor-
tant to your business is to become better and better at the
most important things you do.
Self-development must be an ongoing and continuous
part of your time usage every day. It is a key time manage-
ment function that can put you on the path to the executive
suite and beyond.
Find the time within your schedule to continue growing
and developing. The basic rule with regard to personal
development is that you can go no further than you have
gone today with your current knowledge and skill. To go fur-
ther and advance your career, you have to gain more knowl-
edge. You have to learn more to earn more.
American Management Association / www.amanet.org

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Continuous and Never-Ending Improvement
Work on developing and improving yourself every day. If you
were to read something for one hour a day that improved
your ability to do your work, that would put you in the top
one percent in our society within five years.
Listen to educational audio programs when you are trav-
eling in your car. Today, virtually all of the finest information
and ideas that have ever been assembled in English, or in
any language, are available as audio recordings on CDs or
downloads to a smartphone or tablet.
The average commuter spends 500 to 1,000 hours per
year in the car. That’s twelve or twenty forty-hour weeks,
which is equivalent to one or two university semesters. This
means that you can get the benefit of almost full-time uni-
versity attendance by simply turning traveling time into
learning time. If you are not listening to audio programs in
your car or when traveling, you are missing out on one of the
great learning opportunities that exist today.