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Find More Time: How to Get Things Done at Home, Organize Your Life, and Feel Great About It
by
Laura Stack (Goodreads Author)
You have a sink full of dishes to wash, three loads of laundry to do, seventeen bills to pay, thirty-six e-mails to answer, a big stack of novels on the nightstand you’d love to read, and zero minutes of free time. You can’t add more hours to the day, but Laura Stack, The Productivity Pro®, will help you make the most of the time you have and get things done.
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Paperback, 326 pages
Published
June 13th 2006
by Broadway
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I'm about halfway done this book, and although I've liked many parts of it, my focus is starting to flag. The problem with many of Ms. Stack's suggestions is that only a very uptight, organized person would ever do them. I guess this is the basic problem with books on organization - they're written by organized people. These people can't imagine what a lazy weekend would even feel like, they are so busy scrubbing the floors. It's like they are look down from on-high on us morally inferior messy ...more
Good reminder of how to get organized. Gives some good advice. No groundbreaking ideas that are going to give you 4 day weekends every week, but definitely reminded me to consciously use time management skills that I don't always think of.
Somehow I find great comfort in that mine is not the only bitchy review of this book on Goodreads. So ... I like organization porn as much as any straight man I know but this book is overwritten, borrows heavily from the far superior Getting Things Done, and has whacked personal confessions like the fact that her family hires her mother-in-law to do her laundry. So it fails in its title objective but is a success in being an odd memoir of a born-again Christian and Republican living in Colorado...more
I can't say that I read every word of this book because I was thrown by her suggestion to do 2 things at once, like sort mail while on the phone, and then to 'be fully present'. This is the age-old problem for women . . we feel guilty if we're not always busy, which usually means doing 2 things at once, then we feel guilty when we're 'scattered' and can't remember every detail of conversations (not to mention not giving our kids/spouses our full attention).
This was okay. Good ideas, some inspiration. However it didn't have for me that necessary Zing. In other words, how the hell am i going to have my crap that together that I do all the things she recommends to make more time in my life to do the things that she recommends to make more time in my life to do....
This was like a self-guided tour on organizing my life. Clear-cut and simple ideas on addressing potential problem areas and how best to make things better.
It's an organizing book - so I read it. It was very long-winded and could have been 1/2 in size.
Gwenhwyfir
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Trying to find the time to read this.
And implement some of the great ideas.
And implement some of the great ideas.
There should have been a note about this being a "christian" book. Her main goal appeared to be micro managing from afar all people in her life so that she could spend more time with "god". In all my religious wanderings i haven't come across a non-devil worshiping religion where you belittled and degraded people to such an extent as the author recommends. Her lists reduce people to robots and remove all enjoyment and free thought from activity. The advice would remove al...more
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Really excellent tips and ideas - highly recommended.
Very good. It was kidda like a text book. Because after every chapter I would try and apply what I just learned. I am going to reread it because I know that there are things that I missed the 1st time though. I feel much more productive now.
I never could get into this book, much of the advice was either something I already knew (make lists!) or something that wasn't really applicable to my life.
Maybe someday I'll find the right organizational book for me :(
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Starting this over. In true Lesley form, I got sidetracked from it.
This arrived today from Amazon. My life is sorely in need of organization and I can't wait to delve into this book!
Maybe someday I'll find the right organizational book for me :(
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Starting this over. In true Lesley form, I got sidetracked from it.
This arrived today from Amazon. My life is sorely in need of organization and I can't wait to delve into this book!
I found a few good ideas on getting organized and not wasting time at the beginning of the book. But then the book quickly devolves into "hire a housekeeper, hire a gardener, hire a personal assistant, hire your mother-in-law to do your laundry, send your kids to daycare". Not at all practical. This woman and I live on different planets.
This book had great ideas for organization. I was already a really organized person, but I still got some great new ideas that I can refer back to when I'm spring cleaning my techniques.
Really a great help to organize your home and life so you have more time for the things that matter most!
Despite Inder's semi-pan, I'm curious.
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Laura Stack, MBA, CSP, is a personal productivity expert, author, and professional speaker who helps busy workers Leave the Office Earlier® with Maximum Results in Minimum Time®. She is the president of The Productivity Pro®, Inc., a time management training firm specializing in productivity improvement in high-stress organizations. Since 1992, Laura has presented keynotes and seminars on improvin...more
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