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Developing Individuals and Organizations to Deliver Outstanding Results
Hello and welcome to Make Time Count (MTC) where we help you do well and be well.
I’m Dr Magdalena Bak-Maier, MTC Founder and Chief Architect, neuroscientist, productivity and well-being expert and leading international coach.
I founded Make Time Count to empower people to follow their hearts, trust their inspiration and walk their own path. My work helps people achieve balance, heal, work and lead with greater impact.
Our clients create results in a way that honors the human spirit. I also create powerful productivity and well-being tools.
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The Grid Method
Live your best life with this deceptively simple tool to promote productivity and wellbeing.
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Heart & Mind integration will help you achieve healthy fulfilment and balance.
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THE HEART
Deep emotional and somatic intelligence grounded in profound inner knowing, love and wisdom. What we yearn for and need to feel safe, loved and included.
THE MIND
Conscious mental processes that power inquiry, creativity, problem solving, reflection and ability to conceptualize things.
A better world starts one heart and mind at a time.
At Make Time Count we help people be true to themselves. Our aim is empower you to thrive, shine, and deliver results while feeling good.
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Grid Introduction Training
This 5 modules online course will support your personal and professional success. Gain clarity and confidence to approach and organize your work and life using the Grid method developed by Dr. Magdalena Bak-Maier. Be healthier, happier and achieve more from Day 1 by learning to: Advance results across 4 key areas of your life so…
Grid Weekly Block – 25 Weeks
Creating your own Grid weekly map is the perfect way to stay organised and keep calm. Printed in sharp and full colour, this Grid block will look great on your wall, desk and helps you visually track your progress and healthy balance.
1 Day Grid Retreat Tickets
A one-day small group gathering designed to experientially help delegates explore the way in which we can show up in life, work, and for ourselves to create specific outcomes using our Grid work-life balance and productivity framework.
Body Talk Book: How to tap into your hidden superpower
In her latest book, Dr. Magdalena Bak-Maier teaches you her original approach to connect the most important information processing system – your mind and body. 237 Pages.
14 Day Habit Builder
The 14 Day Habit Builder is an online, self-taught course designed to help you: make a critical positive change learn to create habits that work for you! raise your motivation and confidence. Learn how habits work in practice and how to develop one that gets you closer to the results you're after. Over the 2…
Get Productive Free Sample Chapter
This simple, effective time-management exercise from the book Get Productive is what started the whole project. By tapping into how our brains work out problems and find solutions, I have been able to teach people how to save time and achieve results in an hour instead of a whole day.
Get Productive Book
For anyone who′s felt valuable time frittered away in checking emails or answering wrong phone numbers, or listening to a co-worker giving you a minute–by–minute account of their previous night′s date, help is finally here.
The Get Productive Grid Book
Would you like to live a fuller life? One where you achieve results, have a rewarding personal life whilst nurturing your whole personal and professional being? The Grid is a simple and proven work-life balance system to help you thrive.