THE BOOK

Your Best Just Got Better

Imagine your best getting better every day

In Your Best Just Got Better, productivity expert Jason Womack teaches readers 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.


Readers will:
  • Understand the fundamentals of workflow and the principles of human performance
  • Arm themselves with the tools and the processes to get more of their work done, on time, with fewer resources, and with less stress

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Making your best better won’t happen overnight, but learning how to effectively manage just a few critical success factors lead to an effective workday and an overall successful professional career.

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Table of Contents

Foreword by Marshall Goldsmith xi
Prologue xiii
Introduction xv

Part 1 Work Smarter

 1
1 Improvement and You: Identifying Your Role in Making Your Best Better 3
2 Improvement and Pacing: Habits That Lead to Productivity 29
3 Improvement and Time: Get the Most from 1 Percent of Your Day! 49

Part 2 Think Bigger

 71
4 Improvement and Self-Efficacy: If You Think You Can, You Probably Can 73
5 Improvement and the Social Network: Go Far, Go Fast, Go Together 91
6 Improvement and Tracking: What Is in the Way, What Is Along the Way? 109
7 Improvement and Purpose: Clarify and Promote Your Own “So That . . .” 129

Part 3 Make More

 153
8 Improvement and Feedback: Knowing How to Ask for & What to Do with It 155
9 Improvement and Focus: The Resource That Affects All Others 179
10 Improvement and Practice: Practice Makes Comfortable 201
Conclusion 227
Acknowledgments 233
Index 235

 

“Jason Womack teaches you not to settle for your ‘best’ but to keep the
target moving forward. With his help, break through and do better than you ever
thought possible, in every area of your personal and professional life.”

— Keith Ferrazzi
Bestselling author of Never Eat Alone and Who’s Got Your Back

 

“A lot has been written about peak performance—the power of clarity,
focusing on positive outcomes, time management, relationships, and mastering self-talk.
Jason Womack is one of the very few that pulls it all together in a practical, actionable, and meaningful way. Your Best Just Got Better is a blueprint for finding true balance and meaning, and achieving your best in life and business.”

— Matthew Hately
VP Strategy, Macadamian

 

““After working with Jason for the last ten years to help my teams achieve the
next level of success and effectiveness, I was thrilled that his new book offers a unique perspective along with actionable strategies to maximize the impact you can have in your business, your community, and your life.”

— Russ Stalters
Director, Information & Data Management, BP

 

“Jason’s ability to help people focus on the most important things is a
game-changer for personal productivity. His ability to help de-clutter our
thought processes and work with more intensity and intention is invaluable.
Pick up this book. Read it. Digest it. Read it again. It could change your life.”

— Tony Wilson
CEO/Founder, Performance Coach to Australia’s leading athletes and executives