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Bill Tyler CPA
Bill Tyler Quick Facts
Main Areas: Time Management, Personal Productivity, OrganizationBest Sellers: The Bubble Planner, The Left-Handed Planner, The Bubble List, The Mini Bubble Planner, The Project Tracker
Career Focus: Author, Business Owner
Affiliation: The Bubble Planner
Bill developed an interest in time management working 60-80 hour workweeks while attending college. He learned the power of effective time management systems and advanced memory techniques by necessity rather than choice. As a state champion high school debater and a nationally ranked debater at the college level, he knew how to research.
This research led to several major discoveries that helped him maintain the unbelievable pace through college and gave him an incredible edge in the job market. During the last 15+ years, he has examined and studied numerous time management systems and read countless books on the subject. What he discovered was that the available tools lacked the ability to combine the right and left brain activities, which is essential to creating the life you want.
Armed with a desire to help people reach ever-increasing levels of success, Bill started The Bubble Planner. Since it's inception two years ago, the company has continued to grow and now offers many creative time management tools that are helping many people achieve their dreams faster than ever before.
Bill is a proven professional with fifteen years of accounting and finance leadership experience. He has served the last five with Sodexho. In his most recent role of Finance Director for National Accounts, he oversees all major financial processes for a portfolio of accounts with over $260 million in Revenue. Clients include many Fortune 500 companies. His vast experience in the hospitality industry started with Omni Hotels. After spending a couple of years in public accounting, he returned to the hospitality industry with Remington Hotel Corporation, where he started as a Senior Financial Analyst.
His ability to affect positive change on a large scale was maximized when he was promoted to Director of Process Design. Combining his computer skills with his financial acumen, he spent the last two years with Remington as the Director of Information Services. Bill is a C.P.A. and holds an Accounting degree from the University of North Texas where he has served on the Board of Governors for the School of Hospitality. He currently resides in Keller, Texas with his wife, Missy.
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Favorite Quotes & Thoughts from Bill Tyler
"Excellent Concept! I am enjoying the planner and have been much more productive. Before the Bubble Planner, my important phone calls and action items were buried somewhere in the middle of my 'To Do' list. Now, they are all mapped out right in front of me."
- CPA in Texas
"Wow, this is much cooler than I expected! I haven't been this excited about using a planner in years! Also, the hand-written note included was a great plus. It makes me feel like I'm dealing with people rather than a faceless corporation."
- Blogger in Virginia
"I wanted to congratulate you on the idea. It's amazing! It's something I was looking for and couldn't exactly formulate myself."
- Biochemistry Professor in Canada
Getting Started With Bill Tyler
We often get asked about why Bubble Maps are so effective as a time management tool. Here is some of the science behind the art.
- Improves Communication with the Brain. The Mind Communicates in Images. Bubble Maps use the language of the mind, which is pictures that are converted into words. The organizing ability of the Bubble Map allows a more natural conversation with the brain than a list.
- Engages Memory. Memory is naturally associative, not linear. Bubble Maps allow associations and links to be recorded and reinforced due to the location of the bubbles on the page. The method of loci technique, which was taught by Aristotle, uses the associative properties of your memory to connect new information to locations (or loci) that you already know.
- Converts Energy into Action. Thoughts are energy. However, to be useful, this energy must be directed. Writing things down takes this energy and makes it tangible. In the process, what you want is clarified, thus, actionable. It’s similar to what a windmill does with wind. It takes the invisible and makes it visible.
- Offloads Mental Processes. Through a process known as Distributed Cognition, Bubble Maps take the burden off of the brain for certain tasks. Often people experience mental exhaustion because they are constantly thinking about what needs to be done. Bubble Maps provide a trustworthy system; thereby, enabling your mind to respond rather than react to the present moment.
- Creates Focus and Concentration. By identifying the actions that are most important for you to complete on a given day, week, month, or year; you bring together the full power of your attention and efforts.
- Sparks Creativity. Since pictures are the language of the mind, Bubble Maps capture more of what’s in your mind. The connection between your subconscious and conscious mind is like a muscle—the more it is used, the stronger it becomes. Thus, the accessibility of paper and the visual appeal of the page layout combine to pull the creativity into existence.
- Establishes Boundaries. The boundaries of the bubble allow your thoughts to be discreet and manageable, in this way they are hedges of protection. Also, the limited number of bubbles on a page release the power of accomplishment by making the number of tasks in your day achievable.
- Supports Visual-Spatial Learners. Over 60% of the student population in a recent study preferred Visual-Spatial learning to Auditory-Sequential. This is why many people are unable to use a PDA effectively. The linear nature of task management software is contradictory to the genetic make-up of most people. Bubble Maps engage the Visual-Spatial learner and opens new gateways for productivity.
