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Welcome back to the QODS! Show I'm your host, Sean Crox and it's Sean Crox and

.com. We got Brian Tracy back on the show and today Brian is going to share some

of his best tips when it comes to time management, especially when it comes to

meetings. Brian Tracy's coming up. Okay, the next principle number 10 is meetings.

Meetings are an absolutely essential part of human life. We spend 75% of our time outside

of our home and inside our home communicating with other people. It's absolutely essential

that we meet. Meetings are very, very productive uses of time, but 50% to 70% of meeting time

is wasted. I read a statistic recently that says that the average person spends three

to five years of their life in meetings. The average business person spends 25% of their

day in meetings and is wasting more than half of that time. So here are some of the keys

to using meetings as an effective business tool. Number one is have a purpose for a meeting.

Make sure that it's crystal clear at the beginning what the purpose of the meeting is. If you

are the person organizing the meeting, when you start the meeting you say the purpose

of this meeting is. And if you are not, when you sit down you ask the person who is

chairing the meeting, what is the purpose of this meeting? Do you look upon a meeting

as an investment? Take the time, the dollar value of the time of each of the people at

the table and look upon it as an investment of that many dollars in time. The best way

to save time in meetings is what? Just don't go at all. If you can possibly avoid a meeting,

don't go to it. If there's no need for you to be there, get the report on what happened

later. Second thing we're doing, you do go to meetings, is make sure that there's an

agenda. An agenda is like a list to track to run on. If the chairperson doesn't have

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