Jurgen Wolff is the author of Your Writing Coach (Nicholas Brealey Publishing), Do Something Different (Virgin Books), and Successful Scriptwriting (Writers Digest Press, with Kerry Cox). He's also written many articles, including a personal development column for the Times Educational Supplement.

He teaches workshops on personal development, time management, creativity, and writing around the world. Jurgen has lectured at the University of Southern California, for the Skyros Institute, the Academy for Chief Executives, and for Fremantle Media, the London School of Journalism, the European Media programme, and at private workshops in the United States, England, Spain, Germany, Denmark, France, South Africa, Belgium, and the U.S. Virgin Islands.

Jurgen is a Neuro Linguistic Programming practitioner and a certified hypnotherapist and Time Line therapist. He is the author of our upcoming title, Creativity Now as well as, Series Editor for the For Entrepreneurs series and author of Marketing for Entrepreneurs.

Contents

Foreword by Bob Cochran, co-creator of 24 vii

About the author ix

Introduction How creating focus will change your life xi

Part 1 Finding your focus

1 How to focus on your vital 20%

2 How to focus on your first goals

Part 2 Your focus strategies 35

3 How to focus your time patterns for success

4 How to overcome the obstacles to focus

5 How to focus on what already works

6 How to (finally) beat procrastination

Part 3 Your focus tools 93

7 How to use the Alter Ego strategy

8 How to manage other people

9 How to focus your language for extraordinary results

10 How to create information focus

11 How to conquer the paper mountain

12 How to tame the email monster

13 How to master meetings and networking

Part 4 Putting it all together 181

14 How to deal with deadlines and multiple projects

15 How to maintain your new found focus

16 The goals breakthrough experience

17 How to put it all together to reach all your goals