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Foreword<i> Marshall Goldsmith</i> xi <p>Prologue xiii</p> <p>Introduction xv</p> <p><b>Part 1 Work Smarter 1</b></p> <p>1 Improvement and You: Identifying Your Role in Making Your Best Better 3</p> <p>2 Improvement and Pacing: Building and Sustaining Habits That Lead to Productivity 29</p> <p>3 Improvement and Time: Get the Most from 1 Percent of Your Day! 49</p> <p><b>Part 2 Think Bigger 71</b></p> <p>4 Improvement and Self-Efficacy: If You Think You Can, You Probably Can 73</p> <p>5 Improvement and the Social Network: If You Want to Go Far, Fast, Go Together 91</p> <p>6 Improvement and Tracking: What Is in the Way, What Is Along the Way? 109</p> <p>7 Improvement and Purpose: Clarify and Promote Your Own <br />"So That . . ." 129</p> <p><b>Part 3 Make More 153</b></p> <p>8 Improvement and Feedback: Knowing How to Ask for It and What to Do with It 155</p> <p>9 Improvement and Focus: The Resource That Affects All Others 179</p> <p>10 Improvement and Practice: Practice Doesn't Make Perfect, It Makes Comfortable 201</p> <p>Conclusion 227</p> <p>Acknowledgments 233</p> <p>Index 235</p>

<p><b>JASON W. WOMACK</b> is CEO and founder of the Jason Womack Company, which provides customized training on workplace performance. As an executive coach, he shows clients—managers, employees, and entrepreneurs—how to work <i>smart,</i> think <i>big</i>, and make <i>more</i>. Coaching hundreds of individuals and traveling extensively, Jason has facilitated more than 1200 Workplace Performance workshops. </p>

<p> How did you spend your time today? What did you do really well? Were you running behind for every meeting? Feeling stressed? Constantly struggling to maintain your focus? If your performance today was your best, then it’s time to make your best better. </p> <p>In <i>Your Best Just Got Better</i>, productivity expert Jason Womack shows you that working longer hours doesn’t make up for a flawed approach to productivity and performance. Workers need to clarify their habits, build mindset-based strategies, and be proactive. Womack’s signature workplace performance techniques offer specific strategies to consistently and incrementally improve performance. Learn how to maximize your four most limited resources—time, energy, focus, and productivity tools—to build solid and sustainable workflow habits. <p><i>Your Best Just Got Better</i> will help you identify your role in making your best better. Through strategic, iterative change, you can become more effective and efficient at work and in life, making time for the things and the people you love. Womack’s powerful advice will show you how to: <ul><li>Set goals and take consistent, calculated action toward achievement</li> <li>Invest 15 minutes every day to make your best better</li> <li>Reflect on your achievements and let them power you towards your next goal</li> <li>Build a strong, productive social network</li> <li>Track your use of your limited resources—time, energy, focus, and your systems and tools</li> <li>Test new practices with the Five Day Experiment</li></ul> <p> It’s time to work smart and think big. But how <i>smart</i> you work depends on how well you know yourself, how clear your goals are, and how well you’re using your time. By applying just a little focus to <i>when</i> you’re at your best, you can improve <i>how</i> you get things done. Make your best better, and make new things possible today.

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