I was first introduced to the Personal Booster Week by Zig Ziglar and have found it to be one of the greatest secrets to improving personal productivity that I've ever found.

A Personal Booster Week is a week of all-out effort focusing only on activities that contribute to reaching your goals. You must plan for a personal booster week in advance to achieve this total focus on highly leveraged activities. Make sure that nothing will distract you during this time. Get your co-workers and family involved to help remove distractions. One effective way to remove distractions is to prepare for it as you would prepare to take vacation. Make all the necessary arrangements to have someone else field any calls and correspondence that are not essential in reaching your goals.

As any example, if you are a sales person, schedule only activities that generate sales during this week. In addition to removing distractions, you will also need to expand your work hours during this week. Come early, stay late, and keep focused. A personal booster week will generate results that you could only imagine before. Once you have completed your first Personal Booster Week, you will want to schedule them quarterly, semiannually, or annually going forward.

Remember, the difference between water that is very hot and boiling is only 1 degree. A Personal Booster Week could be the degree of difference that separates you from your competition.