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Sean McArdle

Sean McArdle is a master motivator and speaker in the areas of sales, negotiation, strategic planning and personal development. His distinctions about what makes for a successful career and life come directly from his own experiences. His stories will take you on a personal journey from living under a bridge at 25 to negotiating some of the largest printing contracts in the publishing industry at 28. Since 1992, Sean McArdle has written numerous books, tapes and software programs in the areas of sales, strategic planning and personal development.

Sean McArdle's tapes series, LifeMapping: A Thinking Tool for Living Your Life On Purpose, was televised nationally in a 30-minute documercial with host and ESPN Sports Analyst, Joe Theismann. McArdle believes that the key to his success and yours is "the ability to design the architecture of a day that will bring you what you want for a lifetime."

A faculty member of the American Management Association, Sean McArdle delivers more than one hundred keynotes and seminars each year. He has shared the podium with many of today's leading celebrities, thinkers, and achievers. He is a consultant to some of America's leading businesses, including: Lucent Technologies, Northwestern Mutual Life Insurance, Re/Max Properties, and the National Association of Printers and Lithographers.

Sean McArdle is the Chairman and founder of a nationally recognized training company providing seminars and consulting to some of America's leading corporations and the U.S. Federal Government. When he is not speaking or teaching others to teach his material, he focuses on new ways to help individuals take advantage of accelerated learning skills and techniques.

How can I use time to increase my productivitiy

In this video, management guru Sean Mcardle explains some simple ways that you can improve how you manage your time.

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Host: How can I use my time to increase productivity?

Sean McArdle: Now, that is a good question because in essence, productivity goes back to values. What do we want to be productive at? I saw a machine on an airline magazine that says in four minutes a day you can get the same workout that somebody gets somebody gets in four hours over the period of a week.

Is it true? My answer is probably, not. But it does not mean that people do not understand the meaning of time. So, in order to be more productive if I could take something that now takes me four hours and do it in four minutes that would be highly productive. So, it starts with the value sort. What do I want to be productive at? Then investing the time on purpose, planning it on paper in advance to do those things that you need to be most productive on, on a regular and consistent basis.

Now, I also want to say this, one of the things about The Theory of Relativity is that Einstein we are told was trying to figure out how long it would take to drive his motorcycle to the Sun and the answer is that is relative to two things, distance and speed. If you were going 60 miles an hour, it would take him half as much time as if he were going 30 miles an hour.

So, in that case the motorcycle speed made him more productive. So, what is going to make you more productive is increasing your skill sets at the things that you think are valuable. So, for instance, at work if typing is valuable to you and you are a Hunt and Pecker then you should invest your time in a touch typing course, so that you become more productive when you are typing things, because after all, typing itself is not a very productive effort, but if it is part of your job and you have been saving immense amount of time by doing it more effectively, it is something I would invest some time in.

So, go through your life, do the value sort and then make a decision to become better and better and what it is that you think is most important to you.

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