Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, and Technology

by Jan Jasper

For every successful person in a perpetual-crisis mode--swimming in papers, overrun with complicated new technology, hamstrung by details, and starving for time--here are simple, practical strategies for getting back your desk, your peace of mind, and most of all your time.

288 pages, Paperback

First published November 5, 1999

Reviews

[Emma Sea · Rating 2 out of 5]

At some point in the last 5 years someone rec'd this to me as the 'best time management book ever.' welp, it's not. It's just another book. At least I feel some kind of achievement for reading it and getting it off my physical tbr pile, and now I can release it into the world.

[Josiah Paintsil · Rating 4 out of 5]

I like this book a lot. It has good yet slightly outdated advice about time management. More importantly, I believe that it has good advice about how to properly organize yourself as an adult for the least amount of stress. It seems to be more of a life advice book rather than a time-management book, but I think that is what makes it work well. My favorite sections are "Powerful Planning" and "The Added Challenges of the Home Office". The former teaches you the importance of prioritization, which is something that I would like to use in my day-to-day. And the latter teaches you how to comfortably work from home, which I believe is important in the post-Covid world.

[Zoe · Rating 4 out of 5]

I generally detest self-help books because they are so poorly written, but this one is actually well-written AND very informative!

[Olivia Taloma · Rating 5 out of 5]

Excellent book. If you want to reach your goals at work and in life, I recommend the chapter on Powerful Planning. Worked wonders for me.