Focal Point: A Proven System to Simplify Your Life, Double Your Productivity, and Achieve All Your Goals 2001

A practical guide to personal management furnishes a collection of the best ideas on how to develop focused goals and plans in seven key areas and addresses such questions as how to balance one's personal life and professional success, how to accelerate the accomplishment of goals, and how to gain control of one's time and one's life. Reprint.

Why are some people so remarkably successful? What makes their careers soar? And how do they still find so much time to spend on their personal lives? Bestselling author Brian Tracy shares the secrets to success.

Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Focus Your Attention and Actions on What You Want to Achieve
Every person wants to achieve better, faster, easier results in his or her life, but most people are unsure of where they need to apply changes to get the right outcome. The place where we focus our energies is our focal point, and determining where to apply our time and effort takes some concentration and skill.

To deliver this skill in an era of uncertainty, personal development and success guru Brian Tracy offers a new primer on improving the quality of life and work. In this new book, Focal Point, Tracy writes, "Just as the focused energy in a laser beam cuts through steel, your ability to choose the most vital element of any situation will enable you to perform at extraordinary levels in any endeavor."

Four Basic Steps
Tracy's Focal Point Process involves four basic steps that anyone can take:

1. Do more of the things that bring you greater rewards and satisfaction.
2. Do less of certain things that do not help you accomplish the things you want.
3. Start to do things you are not doing at all today.
4. Stop doing certain things altogether if they are inconsistent with what you want and where you want to go.

These simple steps contain the essential building blocks necessary to bring about the changes that can turn anybody's life around. First, a person must have the desire to change. Then, he or she must decide to make the change. With the will to persist until desired results are achieved, anyone is ready to improve his or her world and unlock dormant potential.

Using real-life stories about the people who have taken his advice andsuccessfully changed the course of their lives, Tracy is able to illustrate his basic steps and plot a clear path toward higher achievement and amazing turnarounds.

The 80/20 Rule
When people are trapped in a situation where they feel their energies are being sapped and their lives are out of control, he compels them to ask the question: "Knowing what I know now, if I were not doing this now, would I start it up again today?" Using this as a base line, he urges people to stand back and analyze their actions and make specific decisions that can positively change their lives.

To help his readers double their incomes while doubling their time off, Tracy cites the "80/20 Rule" that says 20 percent of a person's tasks contribute 80 percent or more of the value of the things a person does. Applying this logic, he advises people to spend more time doing more of the tasks that create the greatest value. Once they have identified the time-consuming activities that contribute very little to their results, they should quickly downsize, delegate and eliminate as many of them as possible.

Accept Responsibility
When people accept complete responsibility for their lives they will be better prepared to achieve their goals. This is where leadership begins, Tracy writes. Excuses, criticism and blaming are not the tools of a leader, he writes. Once a person has accepted responsibility for his or her life, then it is time to concentrate attention on a specific area of growth.

Question Yourself
Focal Point asks readers to ask themselves many questions. Within the answers to these are the routes to personal success that Tracy hopes to reveal. By looking deeply into the many facets that make personal success possible, he is able to show his readers that they hold within themselves endless possibilities that simply require focus to turn potential into reality. Among the many important topics he covers throughout his book are: productivity, simplification, decision-making, strategic planning, career opportunities, relationships, financial independence, health and community. Tracy turns each of these into another inroad to success and source of personal development.

Why Soundview Likes This Book
There is more to life than material wealth, Tracy writes in a last chapter dedicated to the inner self and peace of mind. By rounding out his book with more spiritual matters, he reminds his readers that true personal success is the happiness that comes when a person follows his or her intuition and inner voice, and does the things that are right for himself or herself. Because of this well-rounded approach to personal success, Tracy's book is a valuable resource for anyone willing to allow its lessons to shape his or her life. Copyright (c) 2002 Soundview Executive Book Summaries

Machine generated contents note: Hadronic Physics with a Polarized Electron-Ion Collider 1 J. M. Cameron, J. T. Londergan, and R. G. Milner Learning from QCD13 F. Wilczek Nucleon Spin Physics: Experimental Status and Potential of HERMES, COMPASS, and RHIC 34 A. Miller Overview of Skewed Parton Distributions 49 A. Schifer The Spin Structure of the Nucleon: Theoretical Overview54 R. L. Jaffe Current Fragmentation in the Semi-inclusive Leptoproduction 75 P. J. Mulders Probing "Generalized Parton Distributions" with JLab at 12 GeV 89 S. Stepanyan e-A Physics at a Collider 104 G. T. Garvey Deeply Inelastic Scattering off Nuclei at RHIC 121 R. Venugopalan Luminosity Limitations for Electron-Ion Collider 142 V. A. Lebedev Overview of European Plans for Future Lepton/Photon Scattering Facilities155 D. von Harrach SPIN AND FLAVOR STRUCTURE OF THE NUCLEON Semi-inclusive Studies of the Quark Spin and Flavor Structure of the Proton171 U. Stosslein and E. R. Kinney Establishing Evidences of Factorization in Semi-inclusive Electron Scattering176 X. Jiang (Vector) Meson Production and Duality 182 R. Ent Generalized Parton Distributions and Deep Virtual Compton Scattering 187 D. Hasell, R. Milner, and K. Takase Generalized Parton Distributions and the Dependence of Parton Distributions on the Impact Parameter 199 M. Burkardt An Energy Recovery Electron Linac-on-Ring Collider 204 L. Merminga, G. A. Krafft, V. A. Lebedev, and I. Ben-Zvi Wide Angle Compton Scattering229 R. Jakob Structure of the Goldstone Bosons234 R. J. Holt and P. E. Reimer Calculation of Fragmentation Functions in Two-Hadron Semi-inclusive Processes240 A. Bianconi, S. Boffi, D. Boer, R. Jakob, and M. Radici TESLA-N: Electron Scattering with Polarized Targets at TESLA 245 V. Korotkov (for the TESLA-N Study Group) Hadronic Wave Functions and Exclusive Processes 250 E. Stein A and A Polarization as a Measurement of Distribution and Fragmentation Functions255 M. Boglione, M. Anselmino, and F. Murgia Single Spin Asymmetries in Semi-inclusive Electroproduction: Access to Transversity 260 K. A. Oganessyan, N. Bianchi, E. De Sanctis, and W.-D. Nowak HEAVY QUARKS/TARGET FRAGMENTATION Quark-Hadron Duality in Electron Scattering 267 W. Melnitchouk A Polarization in the Target Fragmentation Region of SIDIS 272 A. Kotzinian Polarized Heavy Flavor Production in Next-to-Leading Order QCD 277 M. Stratmann Soft Diffraction at EPIC Scales 282 M. A. Pichowsky The Strange Sea inside the Nucleon286 V. Barone, C. Pascaud, and F. Zomer e-A PHYSICS QCD in eRHIC and EPIC 293 J. Jalilian-Marian QCD at High Parton Density297 Y. V. Kovchegov QCD Instantons in the Soft Pomeron302 Y. V. Kovchegov Diffractive Electroproduction of Vector Mesons from Light Nuclei 307 L. L. Frankfurt, M. M. Sargsian, and M. I. Strikman Physics of p-A Collisions and Its Relation to e-A Collisions312 J.-C. Peng MACHINE Conceptual Design Study of the Electron-Proton Storage Ring Collider with Polarized Beams 319 1. A. Koop, M. S. Lorestelev, I. N. Nesterenko, A. V. Otboev, V. V. Parkhomchuk, E. A. Perevedentsev, V. B. Reva, V. G. Sahmovsky, D. N. Satilov, P. Y. Shatunov, Y. M. Shatunov, A. N. Skrinsky, R. Milner, and C. Tschalaer Electron and Positron Polarisation at HERA: Past and Future338 D. P. Barber (for the HERA Polarisation Group) Polarized Electrons at Bates: Source to Storage Ring 343 T. Zwart, E. Booth, F. Casagrande, K. Dow, M. Farkhondeh, W. Franklin, E. Ihloff, K. Jacobs, J. Matthews, R. Milner, T. Smith, C. Tschalaer, E. Tsentalovich, W. Turchinetz, and F. Wang Proton and Electron Polarisation in Storage Rings: Some Basic Concepts 350 D. P. Barber, G. H. Hoffstitter, and M. Vogt Siberian Snakes and Spin-Flipping in Storage Rings355 B. B. Blinov Agenda 361 Schedule363 List of Participants 367 Author Index379. 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"Focal Point" shows readers how to develop absolute clarity about what they want, and how they can achieve supreme satisfaction, both personally and professionally. --Publisher description Contents 8 Introduction 11 Chapter One: Unlock Your Full Potential 17 Chapter Two: Double Your Productivity 38 Chapter Three: Simplify Your Life 52 Chapter Four: Tap Your Most Precious Resource 65 Chapter Five: Practice Personal Strategic Planning 91 Chapter Six: Supercharge Your Business and Career 108 Chapter Seven: Improve Your Family and Personal Life 124 Chapter Eight: Achieve Financial Independence 139 Chapter Nine: Enjoy Superb Health and Fitness 153 Chapter Ten: Become Everything You Are Capable of Becoming 165 Chapter Eleven: Make a Difference in Your Community 180 Chapter Twelve: Spiritual Development and Inner Peace 191 Seven Lessons for the Twenty-First Century 203 Focal Point Advanced Coaching and Mentoring Program 206 Appendix: List of Values 208 Recommended Reading 211 Index 214 About the Author 222 Outlines the secret of high achievement: knowing how to find one's focal point--the one thing to do, at any given moment, to get the best possible results in each area of one's life. This guide helps readers analyze their lives in seven key areas and shows them how to develop goals and plans in each Publisher Fact Sheet Tracy, one of America's top business speakers, a best-selling author, & a leading consultant on personal & professional development, helps readers analyze their lives in seven key areas & shows them how to develop goals & plans in each