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Learning to Prioritize is the Secret Time Management Tool that Delivers the Most Dynamic Results. The Way to Weaponize Priorities is to Create the Systems that Make them Automatically the Most Important Part of Your Day.
Accelerate Your Inner Drive to Empower Your External Success
Priorities and Trilogy
Most people dissipate their time and energy during the day so they rarely move the needle towards their most worthwhile goals. Reverse your process to become dynamic.
When you have decided on your priorities, you need the practices to initiate them. One of the biggest obstacles to success is getting started and then doing it again.
Systems beat willpower. Willpower is tiring. At a point your energy drains and your willpower is gone. Create systems instead of willpower and your efforts can be sustained much longer.
Trilogy
10 Lessons from the Trilogy
1. Choice is Your Only Superpower
We often feel like victims of our schedules, but every
"yes" is a "no" to something else. Reclaiming your life
begins with acknowledging that if you don't choose your top priority, someone
else will choose it for you.
2. Activity is Not Productivity
Being "busy" is often a form of procrastination
in disguise. The first book teaches us that doing more things isn't the
goal—doing the right things is. If the ladder is leaning against the
wrong wall, every step we take just gets us to the wrong place faster.
3. The "Vital Few" Rule
In any project or day, 20% of your efforts usually create
80% of your results. Success isn't about clearing your entire to-do list; it’s
about identifying that 20% and protecting it with your life.
4. Discipline is a Muscle, Not a Personality
Trait
The Discipline of Doing
shows us that you don't "have" discipline; you practice it. It’s the
simple act of showing up for your top priority when you’d rather be doing
anything else.
5. Motion vs. Action
It’s easy to spend all day "moving"
(researching, planning, organizing) without ever "acting." Real
progress only happens when you cross the line from preparation into execution.
6. Your Environment Dictates Your Focus
You cannot win a battle against a distracted environment.
If your surroundings aren't set up to support your priorities, you'll
eventually run out of willpower.
7. Systems Beat Intentions
Good intentions fail when you're tired or stressed. Systems
Determine Priority Success explains that you need a
"set-it-and-forget-it" framework so that your most important work
happens automatically, regardless of how you feel.
8. The Cost of "Switching"
Every time you jump between tasks, you pay a
"tax" in mental energy. By grouping similar tasks and focusing on one
priority at a time, you recover hours of lost productivity every week.
9. Say "No" to the Good to Say
"Yes" to the Great
The hardest part of prioritizing isn't cutting out the
bad habits—it's cutting out the "pretty good" opportunities that take
up the space where "great" opportunities should live.
10. Consistency is the Ultimate Multiplier
The trilogy concludes with a simple truth: A small
priority followed consistently for a year creates more impact than a massive
effort that lasts only a week. Your systems are the engine that keeps that
consistency alive.
The Quantum Effect
The world is changing too fast to run a company with
linear thinking.
An example: If we increase the price by 5% we increase
profits by 2%
What is needed is breakthrough ideas that solve a
thousand linear problems.
This is the value of epiphanies and revelations after
considering all the data. But linear thinking in the Beta wave state keeps us
stuck in the same process invented in the Industrial Revolution.
But now, AI is only one issue. What is needed is a leader
that is centered and uses that centering to center the whole organization.
A calm leader calms the organization and makes room for
innovation and cohesiveness.
The answers are in the Quantum Sciences. The Zero Point
Field is the source of intelligence that runs the Universe. We can tap into it.
It throws out electromagnetic waves that permeate all
matter and space. The brain can convert this intelligence to thoughts and
images in the theta and alpha wavelength state.
New ideas now have to arrive faster than changes.
Anticipating requires more than Beta wave analysis of spreadsheets.
The leader who slows down to allow this calm state to
prevail can take advantage of an intelligence greater than AI.
It sounds ironic but it is slowing down to speed up.
The leader that focuses on creating Quantum breakthroughs
accelerates the progress and calm of the whole organization.
The Quantum Leader wants to win, not just survive.
Learn the practices. Become the Quantum Leader.
AI Fluency and Safety Protocols
In my last book, I discussed how to become AI Fluent.
In readers reviews, they said what scares us most is the reputation of AI to make things up. I realized this is a major hindrance to using AI.
This book discusses how to safety proof your AI productions. It is not difficult and you can then be confident you will not destroy client relationships.
A disaster did occur with Australia Deloitte in providing an expensive report to the Australian government that was full of errors. This can be avoided.
Follow the steps to avoid the 7 errors commonly produced by AI. AI is a great took, but it is clear it needs human supervision. The next consideration is the levels of risk in using the AI reports.
There are 4 levels of risk that begin with little fear of what is produced to the 4th level of major consequences if reports contain errors or hallucinations. Learn how to master accurate AI outputs.
Everyone in an organization can benefit from this book. It is for workers, leaders, and the organization. AI Fluency is important, but safeguarding the output before others see and utilize it is more important.
The Internet was supposed to make life easier. It helped us transform from snail mail and fax machines. Life seemed good as we became more efficient and could communicate quicker. This speeded up all transactions and communications. We went from waiting a week until a contract arrived by mail to instantaneous transactions. Everyone was more efficient. Little did we realize that efficiency would become a drug.
It became so important that organizations found the biggest Constraint on Speedy Value Delivery became the human. Technology made humans more efficient and now technology is making humans unnecessary. What a twist of fate.
Yet, most jobs won't be replaced, they will be taken by people who can direct the greatest efficiency technology ever imagined-AI. Humans are necessary but in a different capacity.
Humans are needed to set the objectives, create a description of the work to be completed, judge whether the output is accurate and true, and finally to ensure it meets the standards of ethics, brand identity, and is legal.
Learn the step-by-step process to AI Mastery one step at a time. This easy to read guide for beginners and those already engaged can transform a worker from nearing obsolescence to accelerating their career and teaching others how to do the same.
It is a step-by-step guide that starts with your first day, then weeks, then months and up to 10 years of advancing your expertise and becoming more influential. Most have not yet gained AI Fluency, so you are not behind yet, but in a few years, it will be a requirement, and you will be outside looking in if you are not up to speed.
Fear not, your Guide has Arrived.
Prepare Your Workforce
AI is invading our space in stages.
The Big 7 in technology like Microsoft have told their people learn AI or step aside. HP is planning to fire 6,000 people and says they see it in every aspect of their business. Walmart has said it will be at every level and they will train everyone.
Not everyone or every organization has made similar plans, but it is coming. Henry Ford said people didn't want cars, they wanted a faster horse.
Well, the time to adjust is here.
Middle managers can start preparing their people. AI is not difficult. It just requires an introduction and practice exercises. I created that aspect in my last book AI Fluency.
This book guides managers on preparing the environment and workforce to adapt. They would be well advised to get everyone a copy of AI Fluency to reduce the friction of adaption and then set the atmosphere in which everyone progresses together.
This becomes the Anti-Fragile Organization in which mistakes are used as data to jump forward. It is the business model of the future that many are now adopting. It is time to begin.
One of the greatest impediments to AI Adoption is Fear. Workers see it as replacing them or something they won't be able to learn and implement.
The truth is, AI Fluency is not difficult. It just takes daily practice. Removing the fear is the first thing Managers can do to ease implementation.
Learn how to create the right environment. Make the organization Anti-Fragile where blame is eliminated and experimentation is accepted. Experimentation is the foundation so making mistakes can't create reprimands.
An Anti-Fragile environment creates a culture and organization that leaps forward with collaboration and sharing of both mistakes and successes.
Be the Leader that moves the Organization into the future.
Creating AI Readiness
Leaders who successfully implement AI into their organizations have managed the Capacity of the workforce to change. The Human Operating System of the workforce is fragile and lives on predictability. When you introduce change, you must learn how to manage predictability to preserve cognitive capacity.
The Anti-Fragile Organization gets stronger with change. They don't resort to quiet quitting or resistance. The culture of an organization has to be developed so that mistakes become data and not the opportunity to blame. The structure can be created to implement change and at a pace that doesn't break the system.
Priorities
The direction you travel is determined by your focus. What most people don't realize is the Shadow Priorities are really determining progress. We say we want to be a leader, but our Shadow Priorities says we love comfort, safety, and social acceptance over risk taking and speaking up. Our Priorities and Values have to be in alignment or the rowers in our boat are pulling in different directions.
Once we have established our Priorities, we need a great system to sustain our effort. We don't need to start each day with generating enthusiasm all over. We set systems that are automatic and slide us into our Priority practices without thinking. Progress becomes automatic. Systems are more important than willpower if we are going to sustain in the long run.
Let's Gain New Power
The world is now a place where executives and workers say everything is coming too fast. We lose focus. We work on too many things out of reaction. We fail to do deep work. Let's reverse it all. Let's focus on the three things that really make a difference.
Executives and workers are losing their bandwidth for cognitive and creative work because they are working too often out of panic. Deadlines, stress, setbacks take their toll and resilience is just a battery that dies eventually. Systems are the Architect of Calm. It is not illusory if you know what to do. Let's learn.
Master Change and Lead
Change is endemic to our personal lives and careers. Those who learn to master change will lead. This book discusses the process to create an Anti-Fragile workforce that becomes stronger with change. It also proposes two new Chief Officers, The Chief Change Officer and The Chief Anti-Fragile Officer and how Pepsico is already creating the optimum transformations with this concept.
This is a book for individuals and leaders. Recently a District Sales Manager for a national retailer introduced this book to his teams as a recommendation. Learn how to optimize your performance and prepare for the changes we live through. Stephen Covey says change your interior and manifest outward.
H/R Directors to C-Suite Leaders
Change is not a new dynamic, but it might be the prevalent dynamic shaping Organizational Strategy and Culture. The current structures may be outmoded i dealing with change and preparing the workforce for adapting. The H/R Director needs an elevated mandate with more power and authority. This is how they can influence that decision.
Human Resource Directors have several responsibilities. They also have many limitations on what they can achieve due to authority and budget restraints. H/R Directors deserve and need more power and authority and they could argue persuasively how that could be implemented to make them a bigger contributor
The Trilogy of the Human Operating System (HOS)
Quiet Quitting is a symptom and a state of being. Individuals witness their own quiet quitting and organizations are currently plagued with disengagement of personnel. The reasons, causes, and solutions are set out in this necessary document.
After it has happened we have to return to Peak Performance. The root causes often begin from the same causes as quiet quitting but then everything may have gone too far. Once again, its a steeper climb than just quiet quitting but the return to Peak Performance is still the goal.
Here we assume you have covered the material in the first two books or haven't had the need but still want to reach Peak Performance and Mastery. When we have learned how to Master our Human Operating System (HOS) through Internal Mastery, we can lead ourselves and our Teams and Organizations.
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Optimize Your Organizations Performance
The step above Resilience is Anti-Fragile. Rather than just bounce back from setbacks, learn how to be more powerful as a result of setbacks. Train your organization to be robust in the face of so much change and challenge.
There are 5 basic Anti-Fragile technologies that will transform organizations into growth machines because mistakes are looked upon as data and used to pivot to a new strategy. It creates psychological safe cultures so that innovation flourishes
Build Your Capacity to Learn and Adapt
The world is not a calm place nor is our work environment.
Our mind is not a calm place.
We cannot operate at our optimum with a low level of anxiety constantly running in the background. Let's face it, how often do you feel at peace? What would it be worth?
The world is full of distractions so we don't dwell in our minds, which most find an uneasy place. Managers have to optimize production with people that are dealing with overwhelm.
It is a full circle of stress. It is time to calm down.
Learn the practices to support a quiet nervous system that is ready to learn and adapt. Managers, learn the practices that can help you optimize the output of your teams.
The AI era demands higher cognitive skills from workers who must engage in strategic thinking and problem solving to maximize the ROI of AI.
Prepare everyone for deeper work. Calm everyone down.
The First 12 Chapters are about the essence of a peaceful mind and how managers can create the environment for learning and adapting.
You will find it necessary to create your own mind space for learning and adapting as organizations bear down on workers to give more or move on as Microsoft has just told its leaders and workforce.
Begin Here
What Does it Mean to Become the Entrepreneur of Your Destiny?
Most professionals that are stalled are waiting for opportunity.
For someone to open a door. To be seen, promoted, chosen.
But entrepreneurs don’t wait. They build the future.
They believe ahead of the evidence. They act in alignment with the identity they’re claiming—not the one they've inherited from their subconscious.
To be the entrepreneur of your destiny means:
You transform the narrative you were handed; the messages of your subconscious recordings of positives and limiting beliefs.
You become the architect of your growth process. You identify limiting beliefs, challenge them and then reprogram.
You act before you feel “ready.” You don't over think, procrastinate, worry about being an imposter.
You create conditions of success instead of waiting for permission by stretching your capabilities and taking action.
You don’t hustle for identity and worry about what others think. You design your path and own it.
That’s self-leadership. That’s empowerment. That’s the inner work that fuels outer success. There is so much more.
In my Courses we dive deep. You might want a mini session to explore where we can go with your life. Your Destiny awaits. You get to determine how far you can go and how fast.
This is the opportunity. Let’s build it together.
Introductory Course-Two Sessions
Some people are not ready to dive into a full Course and need an introduction to the Course materials.
This introduces you to the power of the Human Operating System (HOS)
This two one hour sessions Course is live and 1:1. It assesses your current situation, creates your Vision and then discusses the obstacles, options, and a plan.
It continues with an introduction to the Personal Development practices for becoming Empowered and feeling Entitled to Success. It discusses the concepts of Mastering Fear. We talk about how you subconscious is directing your path and how to have the final say.
You will have a clear idea of what your next steps need to be and how you can advance your career, especially if you are stuck or feeling stagnant.
Should you decide to engage in a deeper dive, you can credit the cost of this Course to a more advanced Course of your choosing.
Get started today with a short talk or just move forward to schedule your first session
Schedule a short conversation https://Calendly.com/markap12
Deeper Dive 6 Session Course
We dive into the Human Operating System (HOS) and Internal
Mastery. One of the best ways to describe what happens is by the results we seek:
Here are the 10 steps to cultivate this profound inner
strength:
1. Become
Your Own Inner Observer: Cultivate Radical Self-Awareness.
This is the foundational step. Learn to genuinely notice your thoughts,
emotions, and physical sensations without judgment.
2. Master
Your Inner Climate Control: Regulate Your Nervous System.
Once you're aware of the signals, learn to intentionally shift your internal
state.
3. Unmask
Your Subconscious Overlords: Identify Limiting Beliefs. Go
hunting for those deeply ingrained limiting beliefs ("I'm not good
enough," "It's too hard," "I always fail").
4. Rewrite
Your Operating System: Actively Dismantle Limiting Beliefs.
Once identified, actively challenge those beliefs.
5. Anchor
in Your Unshakeable Why: Define & Connect to Your Core Purpose.
Beyond tasks and paychecks, what truly drives you?
6. Claim
Your CEO Seat: Embrace Radical Self-Responsibility.
Stop blaming external circumstances. Understand the 98% Rule: that your
internal responses are the primary blockers.
7. Befriend
Discomfort: Lean into Growth, Not Avoidance. Growth happens at
the edge of your comfort zone.
8. Build
an Unstoppable Momentum Machine: Practice Consistent Micro-Actions.
Don't wait for motivation or perfection.
9. Cultivate
Unconditional Self-Trust: Nurture Your Inner Ally.
This means being reliable to yourself. Follow through on your commitments to
yourself, even the small ones.
10. Commit to Continuous Internal Calibration: Reflect, Learn, & Evolve. Internal mastery isn't a destination; it's an ongoing journey.
This is just the start to
how you begin at the beginning and find the path to fulfill your dream career
and lifestyle. After 6 sessions you can roll this course into the 1 Year
Mastery Course
1 Year Master Course
What Would It Be Worth to Have Everything You Need? We Often Look Externally to Find the Golden Ring, but the Truth Is It is Hiding Within You.
This One Year dive includes the results from the 6 Session Course listed above but with much more time to fully expand all the points.
Yes, nothing out there can make you who you want to be. You should read that again.
Everything you need is gained by harnessing your own gifts. We all have the gifts of desire, enthusiasm, the desire to contribute and the willingness to receive according to our contributions. Its embedded in our DNA.
There are really no short cuts to having what we need. We invest who we are. We find that we are enough. We can face challenges and win. The difference between us and our super heroes is usually the Vision and the Willingness to Commit.
This One Year Course sets you upon the journey. You learn to master your own superpowers. We all have them. They often haven't been ignited because of Fear, Limiting Beliefs, and Lack of Guidance.
Learn More
Empowerment Accelerates Success Tapping Our Subconscious Powers
Overcoming Fears to Avoid a Blind Leap. Better to Build a Bridge
Interviewing Magic-Become the Best Option
How Empowerment Creates Growth and Opportunities. Defeat Stuck and Stagnation.
Overcoming Fear and Finding Freedom to Live Your Dream is Part of the Success Path.
Interviewing Is An Art Many Don't Understand. We Often Have to Improve Who We Are and How We Show Up More Than Learning the Answers.
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Workshops
Workshops can be conducted live or on Zoom. An opportunity for Executives and Employees to focus on Career Advancement Skills.
Advancement requires a Growth Mindset and Soft Skills as well as Technical Skills
Training, Empowering, and Including Employees improves Engagement, Production, and Retention
Stop the turnover by creating opportunities for learning and growth.
Coaching is available for one-on-one sessions, group sessions, and meetings. Personal Development, Developing High Vibrations, Leadership, and Entrepreneurial Skills. We start with the basics and then explore your "why" and how to become devoted, passionate, and obsessed. Find your special power.
Testimonials
Charles Pence - Founder Pence, Hawthorne, & Silver #5 Real Estate Firm in Los Angeles
I would highly recommend Mark Kaplan as a life and or business coach. I first met Mark when I was interviewing real estate company managers to determine where I was going to hang my brand-new sales license. I had planned to interview several other companies, but Mark had such dynamic and affirming way about himself, I didn’t bother interviewing any other office managers or companies. I wanted someone l wanted someone just like Mark, as a mentor for my new career path. He proved to be more than I could have expected. He was so knowledgeable, always so upbeat and had great incite. He helped me create a long-range business plan and helped keep me accountable to that plan.
Gary Fleishman- Founder Shark Wheels, $60 million enterprise
I have known Mark for over 30 years, and I must say he encompasses the most important assets to make him standout in his profession. I TRUST him, he is very SMART, CREATIVE, FAST THINKER and so much more. He is the perfect model for my favorite quote - "Nobody Cares How Much You Know Until They Know How Much You Care." Mark is a great Listener and a great Problem Solver. If You ever have a chance to work with Mark do not pass it up. Best Wishes to Mark and anyone who works with him.
Gary Fleishman, President of Shark Wheel. Regional Manager of 1st Team Realty
Blake Mirkin
Vice Chairman at CBRE
I’d like to recommend Mark Kaplan who served as the manager of John Douglas commercial real estate for many years leading over 60 professionals. Mark was an outstanding manager of people and expert in the commercial real estate world.
Jim Greenwood- Founder Curator Honor Music Awards, Licorice Pizza Records
Mark shared multiple concepts and strategies that made businesses better and led to personal development at the same time. Thanks Mark!
” The Personal Development Course was Career Changing. I was promoted within 60 days and I have enrolled in the 1 Year Master Class. ”
” I was stuck in my career because I really feared stepping up . I have learned how to exert myself and it does not seem threatening. ”
” I failed a several interviews to increase my role. I found out it was how I was presenting myself more than what I was saying . Can't recommend it enough ”
About Us
Mark Kaplan, CEO, has an extensive background in Leadership, Managment, Training and Coaching. With 30 books on Amazon on Personal Deveopment and 1,000's of students coached, he offers great insights into excelling in this competitive environment and discovering a life of fulfillment and purpose.
He has studied the qualities and techniques of the super successful and has consolidated them for his coaching practice. The study never ends, however, as new leaders show how it is done.
Gain confidence and insight. Find your powers. Stretch. Learn the secrets of the super successful.
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