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Mark Forster is a British author best known for three books on time management. A business coach until he retired on 24 November 2008,^[1] in the past he has also worked for the British Army, Ministry of Defence and the Church of England.

His biggest selling book to date is "Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management," which challenges some traditional practices in time management with four simple tasks and seven principles.

The four tasks of his "quick start guide" are:

1. to assemble all delayed work into "backlog folders" where it cannot be seen,
2. collect all new work into related "batches" for the following day,
3. write down ALL things too urgent to wait until tomorrow before doing them, and then
4. start each day catching up on backlogged work.

The seven principles are:

1. to have a clear vision,
2. do one thing at a time,
3. do small amounts of work often,
4. define realistic limits using...
5. "closed lists" of finite tasks that are not added to,
6. reduction of interruptions, and
7. clarifying solid commitments as opposed to vague "interests."

Together, these form the foundation for what is the "do it tomorrow" (DIT) time management system.

Forster compares time management choices to those made when ordering from a menu in a restaurant. There is only a finite amount of food one can eat and a finite amount of time in a day, so each choice has a logical opportunity cost. The amount of work accomplished is a combination of creativity and efficiency, and can only be increased by (A) improving efficiency, (B) reducing the total number of tasks, or (C) increasing available time. Prioritized task lists only postpone problems of efficiency, which Forster asserts are the major factor in time management. By reducing "busy work," more time is made available for "real work" but many workers have an unrealistic sense of how much is possible. Improved efficiency alone cannot solve fundamental problems of work-life balance. Forster asserts that "goals are as much about what we are not going to do as they are about what we are going to do."^[2] Proper attention to minor tasks prevents emergencies. Same-day or next-day responses are perfectly adequate in many cases, and judicious use of "closed lists" increases efficiency, regardless of the order in which finite tasks are completed. Strategic use of delay and closed lists is what Forster calls "the mañana principle." Incoming tasks are thus "scheduled forward."

Important, non-routine projects are identified as the "current initiative" for some action each and every day. Backlogs may be a current initiative until completed, but the goal is to take breaks and complete a full day's tasks each day with efficient focus.

Since late 2008, Mark has developed several variations of a new time management system called AutoFocus. The system instructs the individual to simply write tasks sequentially in a notebook, and then follow mechanical rules to go through the list choosing tasks to work on. The process is designed to promote intuitive decision making and evaluation of what tasks to work on.^[3]

Books[link]

Forster, Mark (2006-07-20). Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management. Hodder & Stoughton Religious. pp. 224. ISBN 0-340-90912-9. 

Forster, Mark (2001-07-20). Help Yourself Get Everything Done : and Still Have Time to Play (1 ed.). McGraw-Hill. pp. 200. ISBN 0-658-02150-8. 

Forster, Mark (2002-04-18). How to Make Your Dreams Come True. Help Yourself. pp. 205. ISBN 0-340-78629-9. 

Notes[link]

1. ^ Forster, Mark (2008-12-18). "Future Developments". http://www.markforster.net/blog/2008/12/18/future-developments.html. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 
2. ^ Forster, Mark (2006). Do It Tomorrow and Other Secrets of Time Management. London: Hodder and Stoughton. pp. 209. ISBN 978-0-340-90912-6. http://www.markforster.net/do-it-tomorrow/. , Chapter 5, p. 68.
3. ^ Forster, Mark (2009-01-04). "Developing One's Vision". http://www.markforster.net/blog/2009/1/4/developing-ones-vision.html. Retrieved 2009-02-07. 

External links[link]

• Mark Forster's website

Guus Meeuwis
Background information
Born	(1972-03-23) 23 March 1972 (age 40) Mariahout, Netherlands
Genres	Pop
Instruments	Vocals, guitar
Years active	1995-present
Associated acts	Vagant
Website	http://www.guusmeeuwis.com/

Gustaaf Stephanus Modestus "Guus" Meeuwis (born Mariahout, 23 March 1972) is a Dutch singer and songwriter. As part of the band Vagant, he scored several hits in the Netherlands and Flanders during the '90s and first decade of the 2000s.

Biography[link]

Guus Meeuwis was born at a monastery in Mariahout, a small village in the municipality of Laarbeek where his parents were living temporarily. He attended Stella Maris College, and went on to study jurisprudence in Tilburg. It quickly became apparent that Meeuwis was musically talented while at school. Following a romantic weekend in Bruges with his girlfriend Valérie he wrote the song Het is een Nacht ("It is a Night"), with which, in 1994, he won a prize at the AHC-Studentensongfestival in Leiden. He and his backing band were awarded a record contract, under the name "Guus Meeuwis & Vagant", after a café they frequented. Marc Meeuwis, Jan Willem Rozenboom, Hugo van Bilsen, Robin van Beek en Dirk Oerlemans. At the end of 2001 the group decided to split and Meeuwis continued on as a solo artist.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

Live Albums[link]

Compilation albums[link]

Singles[link]

External links[link]

• (Dutch) Guus Meeuwis official website

Xavier Kurt Naidoo (born October 2, 1971) is a German singer-songwriter, record producer and occasional actor. Born and raised in Mannheim, Naidoo worked in several jobs in the gastronomy and the musical industry before relocating to the United States in the early 1990s, where he released his first full-length English language-album Seeing Is Believing under his stage name Kobra in 1994. He currently resides in his native Germany.

After working as a backing vocalist for the Rödelheim Hartreim Projekt and 3P label mates Sabrina Setlur and Illmat!c, Naidoo released his first German language album Nicht von dieser Welt in 1998, for which he won an ECHO Award and an MTV Europe Music Award. Selling more than one million copies in total, it produced six singles, including "Seine Straßen." and "Sie sieht mich nicht," the latter of which served as the theme song for Astérix & Obélix Take on Caesar (1999). After his highly publicized departure from 3P, his third studio album Zwischenspiel – Alles für den Herrn was released in 2002. It spawned the top five hit singles "Wo willst du hin?" and "Abschied nehmen" and led to a collaboration with Wu-Tang Clan member and producer RZA, with whom he released his first number-one single "Ich kenne nichts (das so schön ist wie du)" in 2003.

Known for his soulful voice and his Christian lyrics, he has collaborated with several famous artists such as Deborah Cox and Swiss artist Stress. Naidoo was with the Söhne Mannheims (Sons of Mannheim) earlier before he became famous, after his popularity increased he went back to the band and wanted to help them to become famous too, which worked. Nowadays he switches back and forth with doing some Solo music or recording an Album and going on tour with the Söhne Mannheims. He joined groups like Brothers Keepers and the charity project Zeichen der Zeit (Signs of the Times) in the early 2000s.

Personal life[link]

Naidoo is the child of a South African mother and South African father. His mother is from South Africa but is of Tamil heritage

Discography[link]

Filmography[link]

• Tatort - Die kleine Zeugin (TV, 2000)
• Auf Herz und Nieren (2001)

Musical[link]

• Human Pacific (1995)
• People (1998)

Awards[link]

• 1999: MTV Europe Music Award - "Best German Act"
• 2000: ECHO - "Best National Male Artist - Rock/Pop"
• 2002: Goldene Stimmgabel
• 2002: Comet - "Best Act National"
• 2002: MTV Europe Music Award - "Best German Act"
• 2004: Amadeus Award - "Record of The Year" for "Ich kenne nichts (Das so schön ist wie Du)"
• 2006: Goldene Kamera - "Pop National"
• 2006: ECHO - "Best National Male Artist - Rock/Pop"

References[link]

External links[link]

• Official website
• Xavier Naidoo @ MusikNews

Herbert Grönemeyer
Herbert Grönemeyer, 2004
Background information
Birth name	Herbert Arthur Wiglev Clamor Grönemeyer
Born	(1956-04-12) April 12, 1956 (age 56)
Origin	Göttingen, Lower Saxony, Germany
Genres	Rock, pop rock, soft rock, pop
Occupations	Singer, actor, composer
Instruments	Vocals, piano, guitar
Years active	1978–present
Labels	EMI, Grönland
Website	www.groenemeyer.de

Herbert Grönemeyer (born April 12, 1956) is a German musician and actor, popular in Germany, Austria and Switzerland. He starred as war correspondent Lieutenant Werner in Wolfgang Petersen's movie Das Boot, but later concentrated on his musical career. His fifth album 4630 Bochum (1984) and his 20th album Mensch (Human) (2002) are the best-selling German-language records of all time.^{[citation needed]} He is the most successful artist in Germany with album sales of over 13 million albums.^[1]

Early life[link]

Grönemeyer often refers to his personal roots as lying in the German town of Bochum where he spent most of his childhood, youth and early adulthood. Still today, the song Bochum, first released in 1984, is one of his signature songs, especially during live performances. Being born in Göttingen and not in Bochum he has his own explanation: "I was only born in Göttingen because my mother often fainted when she was pregnant with me. She did this every time she turned to her left side, and no one believed her. In Göttingen there was a professor, a specialist, and he didn't believe her either, at which point she lay down, fainted, and brought me into the world. This is why I was born in Göttingen."^[2]

Work[link]

Grönemeyer’s interest in music was sparked at the age of eight, when he started to take piano classes. These later formed the basis for his work as a pianist and composer at the local theatre Schauspielhaus Bochum. In 1979, at the City of Cologne Theatre (Schauspielhaus Köln), using his musical talent to great effect, he gave an excellent performance as Lorenzo in the The Merchant of Venice. Although never having attended an acting school he soon appeared in several TV productions. During one of the shootings he met his later wife, the actress Anna Henkel. Additionally, Grönemeyer published an album he had recorded with the jazz formation "Ocean Orchestra" in 1978, a year in which he also composed the music for the film Uns reicht das nicht by Jürgen Flimm, together with Jens-Peter Ostendorf. His first solo album Grönemeyer, which was published in 1979, was awarded the Golden Lemon for the ugliest album cover of the year. His second album Zwo was released in 1981. Neither managed to chart. In the same year he starred in Wolfgang Petersen’s successful movie Das Boot as Lieutenant Werner. For the role of composer Robert Schumann in the German-German coproduction Frühlingssinfonie (co-starring Nastassja Kinski and Rolf Hoppe), for which he also composed the film score, Grönemeyer spent six months in the GDR. During the early 1980s Grönemeyer put his main focus on his music; the next two albums Total egal (1982) and Gemischte Gefühle (1983) flopped and most concerts of the planned tour had to be cancelled.

Grönemeyer first met success as a musician in 1984 with the release of Bochum which became the best-sold album in Germany that year, particularly supported by the singles "Männer" ( English lyrics ) and "Flugzeuge im Bauch". A year later Grönemeyer appeared in the TV-movie Väter und Söhne, co-starring Julie Christie, Burt Lancaster and Bruno Ganz. In his next albums Sprünge (1986) and Ö (1988) he increasingly expressed his political opinion, criticising the government under German Chancellor Helmut Kohl. In 1986 Grönemeyer performed at the Anti-WAAhnsinns Festival against nuclear power and he composed the film score for the TV film Sommer in Lesmona, for which he received the Adolf Grimme Award in gold. The release of his first English album What’s all this was followed by a tour through Canada, where it had success in the charts. After the Berlin Wall had fallen Grönemeyer released the album Luxus in which he addressed the feelings in East and West Germany. Having two children together, Felix and Marie, he married his companion Anna Henkel in 1993. In the same year Chaos was released and became a Top 1 hit record in Germany. More than 600,000 people saw the following tour. In 1994, Grönemeyer was the first non-English-speaking artist who was invited by MTV to do an unplugged concert. Four years later Grönemeyer moved to London and released Bleibt alles anders (Everything Remains Different). He also founded his own record label, Grönland Records. In the same year his brother Wilhelm and his wife Anna died of cancer (both dying within 3 days); it took Grönemeyer a year to resume his work. In 2000 he recorded a concert with a philharmonic orchestra and released the DVD Stand der Dinge (State of Affairs). In August 2002 he released his so far most successful album Mensch (Human) which was awarded Platinum even before release due to advance orders. The single "Mensch" became Grönemeyer’s first number one hit in Germany and 1.5 million people saw the 2-year tour. In 2004 and 2006 Grönemeyer recorded songs for the Olympic Games in Athens ("Everlasting") and the 2006 FIFA World Cup in Germany ("Celebrate the Day"), respectively.

In March 2007 he released his 12th studio album 12 which was followed by a stadium tour across German-speaking countries. Smaller concerts took place in September in Amsterdam, Munich, Dresden and London's Royal Albert Hall.

The three re-recorded albums What's all this, Luxus and Chaos for the English-speaking market were met with limited sales success. Grönemeyer was scheduled to make his American debut on September 17, 2007 at the Beacon Theater in New York City, but the performance has since been postponed.

In January 2010, Grönemeyer performed the anthem "Komm zur Ruhr" as part of the opening ceremony of the "RUHR.2010" - The city of Essen being the "European Capital of Culture 2010" on behalf of the entire Ruhr area.

The magazine TIME awarded him the title of "European Hero" in 2005 for his humanitarian work.

Discography[link]

Studio albums[link]

• 1979 Grönemeyer
• 1980 Zwo
• 1982 Total egal
• 1983 Gemischte Gefühle
• 1984 4630 Bochum
• 1986 Sprünge
• 1988 Ö
• 1990 Luxus
• 1993 Chaos
• 1998 Bleibt alles anders
• 2002 Mensch
• 2007 12
• 2011 Schiffsverkehr

Filmography[link]

• 1976 — Die Geisel (directed by Peter Zadek)
• 1978 — Von Tag zu Tag (directed by Ulrich Stein)
• 1978 — Uns reicht das nicht (directed by Juergen Flimm)
• 1979 — Daheim unter Fremden (directed by Peter Keglevic)
• 1981 — Das Boot (directed by Wolfgang Petersen)
• 1982 — Doktor Faustus (directed by Franz Seitz)
• 1982 — Frühlingssinfonie (directed by Peter Schamoni)
• 1984 — Die ewigen Gefühle (directed by Peter Beauvais)
• 1985 — Väter und Söhne (directed by Bernhard Sinkel)
• 2007 — Control (directed by Anton Corbijn)
• 2010 — The American (directed by Anton Corbijn): film score by Herbert Grönemeyer

References[link]

External links[link]

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