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Attend Seminars Taught by Experts
Attend seminars and workshops given by experts in your
field at least four times a year. Be aggressive about seeking
out these seminars. Be prepared to travel large distances to
learn from the very best people in your business.
The key is for you to attend seminars taught by people
with practical experience who have already achieved success
in their field. Try to avoid lectures and seminars from uni-
versity professors who write from their ivory towers. They
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have seldom been in the trenches, and what they teach
tends to be academically correct but practically useless.
There is almost no way that you can apply their ideas to get
better results in your work.
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Organize Your 
Work Space
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time management tools is to work
from a clean desk and in an organized work space. Just as an
excellent chef cleans up the kitchen before and after cooking,
you should organize your work space completely before you
begin your work. One of the most successful entrepreneurs
in recent history said that the key to his success was to
“always work from a clean desk.”
Peter Drucker observed that effective executives always
have a clean desk. Everything except the one thing that
they are working on at the moment has been removed and
put away, which is why they are able to focus with greater
clarity and get more done, of higher quality, in a shorter
period of time. 
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Put all of your documents away in the appropriate files,
both physical and online. Deal only with your current task.
Try to have only one item in front of you whenever possible.
The top professionals in every field keep a tidy and
highly ordered work space at all times. Think of a carpenter,
dentist, or doctor. They clean up and reorganize as they go
through their day. 
Get organized and stay organized. Make sure your office
supplies and materials are fully stocked and available at hand.
You will find that nothing is more destructive to efficiency and
effectiveness than having to start a job and then stop, and
then start again, for lack of proper preparation or supplies.