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I recently gave a presentation to a law firm on ‘file management’.  As the HR Manager introduced me and the topic, she rolled her eyes emphasising the challenge I had ahead of me in presenting this very dry topic.

Whilst her introduction meant I had to work a bit harder at the outset to engage my audience, I could hardly be critical of her as I had the same reaction (albeit internally) when initially asked to speak on it.  How was I going to make this topic interesting and engaging?

I have repeatedly found there is always a way of presenting something old and traditional in a new and innovative way. Being set the challenge on the topic of ‘file management’, I was not going to let myself or my audience down.

I decided to discuss file management in the context of effective time management.  After all, my audience members by the very nature of their work definitely could benefit from improvements in this area.  As we are all well aware, the time available to us in each week is finite – there are only 168 hours.  Within that 168 hours we will eat, drink, sleep as well as work.  So in order to maximise the amount of time available to do the things we love we need to be highly efficient and effective in the use of our time.

Having spent some time immersed in the topic of effective time management, I started to reflect on the tools I use in my business to improve my time management and hence the main focus of my posting today.

As mentioned above my experience has been there are always new and innovative ways to approach the ‘old’.  Some clever software developers have done exactly this with the concept of reading.

I want to share with you some software I was made aware of which has allowed me to dramatically improve my time management.  If like me you spend a lot of time on your computer reading documents, then you must look into the software package known as Rapid Reader.  Now I am no techy so please don’t ask me to explain the mechanics of this system.  However what I do know is after installing the program (which was easy) I went from reading approximately 150 words per minute on the screen to 750 words a minute after using the package for only 15 minutes.  Incredible gains and TRUE!

This process has to be experienced to be believed.  Even better you can use it for email, word documents and PDFs!   As well as the speed gains, your eyes are going to love you for it – how often have you gone home from a hard day on the computer at work and felt like your eyes were going to burn out of their sockets?

If you are serious about increasing your productivity (and want to give your eyes some down time), particularly if you work in an environment where you are reading large volumes of documentation on screen then you must give this software try.  It horrifies me to think how much time I wasted in the past before I had access to this tool.

So what have you got to lose?  Once you’ve started using it like me you will be able to use the extra time to focus on more valuable work activities or even create some time off.  Thank goodness for innovative approaches to old ways of doing things.

Click here to access the software.

Give it a try and let me know what you think.