Publisher: Althea Press
Publication Date: June 18, 2019
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Goodreads Synopsis:
No-nonsense time management in no time.
Learning to manage your time doesn’t have to take a lot time. Filled with practical advice for everybody, Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day makes increasing your productivity and getting the most out of every day a snap.
Sprinkled with bite-sized lessons and personal anecdotes, Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day introduces strategic changes geared to help you improve your daily life. From obsessing over emails to hunting through clutter to mismanaging meetings—learn how to stop doing all the little things you didn’t even realize were wasting so much of your time.
Time Management in 20 Minutes a Day includes:
Learn time management, fast—Straightforward suggestions focus on simple and proven strategies that you can do in 20 minutes or less. Advice for home and office—It doesn’t matter if you’re a busy CEO or a stay-at-home parent—discover dozens of ways to do more with your day. Modern techniques for current times—Learn to take advantage of all the time saving potential of tech—productivity apps, digital planners, and more.
Discover how fast and simple mastering time management can be.
Review:
When I first started to read this book I was a bit concerned... I recently went to a conference and the keynote speaker was a woman who has made her living writing books about a very similar topic, and this book was getting too close for comfort as I began reading. I had literally just gotten back from hearing a woman talk about a majority of these key steps and I was afraid that this book might be a replications. It is not. I can assure you, and that being said... this book did offer other very valid steps for productivity and resources to help one achieve time management. The author does cite the speaker's book as a reference as well in case you are interested in her too.
This book manages to give pointers and starting points for organization that are simple and to the point, they are unassuming and make this process less stressful than one might think when first diving in. Some tips that I found useful were:long term goals versus a to do list, yea long term goals can be on your to do list but they aren't always pressing and the author explained the importance of prioritization of those goals versus tasks. The organization section was also nicely succinct and it seems to take some of the Marie Kondo ideas ans simplifies them.
Some things that I felt did not hit home: The author works from home and there is a lot of flexibility in that that a person working out of the home might now have, I don't think she truly accounts for that, but all of the processes are somewhat helpful. I also found some of the information too vague. I also would have liked more detail about how to do things and more information about the resources she mentions would also be very nice. For those resources she sometimes gave options - great, but what worked and what didn't in them for her to have various examples?
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