How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet)
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet)
A famous expert reveals his professional secrets. Learn how to build your willpower, how to waste time for pleasure and profit, and how to work smarter, not harder. A practical nononsense guide to managing your personal and business time. Paper.
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5 Stars Buy This And Give It to Teachers For Xmas!
What do you want it to say on your tombstone? A,B,C priorities. Get more accomplished by compartmentalizing your tasks. Write a letter to someone far away like a diary entry over several days! That is what I learned to do after reading this book. Leant out first copy, never got it back! Thanks Carmenza! Anyone wanting to increase their potential needs this book as a primer. Remember if I bought it here it was because it was a standout in my life!
5 Stars Learn how to get the most out of your 24 hour day.
The one thing that we all have but use differently is the 24 hour day. No one gets more than 24 hours in a day. The people in control are the people that know how to effectively manage the 24 hours in a day. No one can save time. We can only use time. The ones that use time wisely get more done and are more successful.
5 Stars Old School GTD
How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Signet) is the spiritual ancestor of Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity. This book discusses how to prioritize and process all the stuff that is keeping you bogged down and it keeps it fairly simple. I read it before GTD and it really jump started my thinking. Many of the ideas in this book are centered on how you might manage your time in the 80s, but regardless of the technology used, the concepts are still sound. Following this book up with GTD is a powerful 1-2 punch for anyone looking to improve their ability to determine the important things and accomplish them.
5 Stars All other time management books are footnotes to this one
This book is the best time management book ever written. All subsequent books are more or less ripoffs of this one. It sounds harsh, but this book is THAT good.
5 Stars Much Better than Getting Things Done
I have read a number of books on Time Management. This is one of the earliest but I still think it’s the best. Get your long term priorities straight, prioritize your daily To Do list and work it–simple and effective. I tried the Getting Things Done method and it was terribly cumbersome so I was surprised by the GTD recommendation in the 2 star reviews.
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