September 10, 2008

Guest: Dave Durand, President and Owner of Pro Balance Inc.
Featured Saint of the Day: St. Thomas of Villanova

Today Deacon Rick and Jenny spoke with Dave Durand, the President and Owner of Pro Balance Inc., and author of best-seller "Perpetual Motivation: How to Light Your Fire and Keep It Burning in Your Career and in Life." Dave told us that although he had been intent on discovering how to perfect Time Management, he did not discover the fullness of Time Management until his conversion experience. He had grown up Catholic, but in his younger years labeled himself as a "cosmetic Catholic." After his conversion experience he discovered that the Church has the playbook for human nature, which filled in the gaps of his research.

When looking at the question of what makes someone a "Top Performer" Dave saw that Top Performers had balance. He described it as six plates spinning at once: faith, family, finance, physical health, social life, and continued education/vocation. Top Performers are able to keep all of the plates spinning at the same time without thinking about it. To achieve this sort of balance, Dave encourages people to work on all these areas of our lives separately until it becomes part of our daily routine to keep all of them spinning at once. A habit to the point of being uncomfortable when you neglect one of the plates.

To help with that Dave developed what is called a "Balander." The Balander is a mix between Balance and Calander, it integrates all of the plates that we are trying to spin at once. It also has a unique feature of the a "Tomorrow to do list." This list is where you write down those things which occur to you as you are working, so that you do not have to stop your current task to do something else. Then by the end of the day you have a list of things to do for the next day. While it only takes a few minutes to learn how to use a Balander properly, it will have an impact on your organization, time management and subsequently, your life.

Dave left us with these words, "Faith is not merely another file for a cabinet, faith is the cabinet that contains all the other files of life."

For information or resources on Time Management you can go to Dave's website:
www.davedurand.com