Maura Thomas, Speaker, Trainer and President, RegainYourTime.com and author, Personal Productivity Secrets

1. Empowered Productivity
Winning the War Against Information Overload
Maura Thomas
424-22-MAURA
maura@regainyourtime.com
Twitter: @mnthomas 1

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3. Support Sabotage
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4. Attention
Image by Dierk Schaefer
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Information
Technology Behavior
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5. It’s A Different World...
Information overload results from having a rapid rate
of growth in the amount of information available,
while days remain 24 hours long,
and our brains remain in roughly the same state
of development as they were when
cavemen communicated by scrawling messages
in stone.
“Overcoming Information Overload,” by Paul Krill, 1/7/2000
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12. Today, we are surrounded by a...
convergent media world
where all modes of
communication and information are...
changing the way we
create, consume, learn and interact
with each other.
-Henry Jenkins, Convergence Culture
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14. Empowered Productivity =
Reactive
Proactive
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17. Dwight D. Eisenhower
"What is important
is seldom urgent...
...and what is urgent
is seldom important."
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18. Control Over Your Attention
Distraction Flow
•Chronic procrastination •Optimal learning
•Difficulty with follow- •Amplified performance
through •Maximized achievement
•Inability to focus
•Impatience
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21. Eisenhower Matrix
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23. Eisenhower Matrix
Importance
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25. Eisenhower Matrix
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27. author Rita Mae Brown
"A life of reaction
is a life of slavery,
intellectually and spiritually.
One must fight
for a life of action,
not reaction."
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38. Empowered Productivity =
Reactive
Proactive
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39. Eisenhower Matrix
Importance
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41. Vague (Project List Only):
Implement
Develop
Specific (Next Actions List):
Create
Call
Plan
Write
Organize
Email
Google
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46. Calm
On Top of Things
Free
In Control
Comfortable
Confident
Capable
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47. How to Get Help
Speaking/Training at Your Organization/Event
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DO WHAT YOU NEVER THOUGHT POSSIBLE WITH YOUR TIME AND ATTENTION…AND REGAIN CONTROL OF YOUR LIFE
MAURA NEVEL THOMAS
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