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151 Quick Ideas to Manage Your Time
Too many of us live our lives trying to shoehorn our many activities and responsibilities into too few time slots available. Increasingly for business people, fathers and mothers, even kids, (ineffectively) managing the myriad of activities has become an all-consuming chore. And we're so stressed that our relationships and job performance suffer. Why? Because we organize our time and our lives We spend five years of our lives waiting in lines, three years in meetings, and two years playing telephone tag! We get interrupted 73 times per day, interfering with our productivity, and take an hour of work home every night, interfering with our family time.But we can solve these problems.
This book presents 151 quick and easy ways to meet these challenges in our daily lives. Each idea comes from the real world experiences of people like you--people who are experimenting with, examining, and discovering unique solutions to the time problems all of us face every day. These tried and tested ideas work! And now they are available to you. Select those that fit your particular circumstance and try them out! Here are a Do more in less time, take control of your schedule, and create a new balance between your work and your family life. You'll be surprised at how easy it is to take charge of your time and increase your quality of life--day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute.
This book presents 151 quick and easy ways to meet these challenges in our daily lives. Each idea comes from the real world experiences of people like you--people who are experimenting with, examining, and discovering unique solutions to the time problems all of us face every day. These tried and tested ideas work! And now they are available to you. Select those that fit your particular circumstance and try them out! Here are a Do more in less time, take control of your schedule, and create a new balance between your work and your family life. You'll be surprised at how easy it is to take charge of your time and increase your quality of life--day by day, hour by hour, minute by minute.
- GenresSelf Help
192 pages, Paperback
First published September 1, 2006
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May 22, 2015
many of us live their live with many responsibilities that must done in few time , it's a major problems ,this book present 151 easy ways to can find the solution to the time problem, that all of
use face every day.
use face every day.
November 2, 2011
What I liked:
1) the numerous tips and tricks I got from reading this book
What I didn't like:
1) many of the ideas that he presented, I've been applying long before I've read the book. What I was applying before I read this book is actually a more improved version of what the author was suggesting.
2) The discussion for each idea was short and somewhat lacking especially for the ideas that I think was among the best that the author proposed
1) the numerous tips and tricks I got from reading this book
What I didn't like:
1) many of the ideas that he presented, I've been applying long before I've read the book. What I was applying before I read this book is actually a more improved version of what the author was suggesting.
2) The discussion for each idea was short and somewhat lacking especially for the ideas that I think was among the best that the author proposed
July 25, 2018
simple messages but powerful
July 28, 2021
Keep a log book of your activities over a period of time.
Prepare your day the night before. Make your preparations the night before so you’re ready to start in the morning.
Don’t procrastinate. Putting things off is terribly costly.
80/20 principal. Place high on your priorities that which is going to yield the most fruit (organizationally or personally).
ABC Priorities. What must be done now, be done soon, or should wait until later?
Write down the tasks as you receive them. Some tasks that you receive are verbal, but however they come you should write them down to place on your to-do list.
Set deadlines for each of your tasks.
Under-commit and over-deliver. You can’t accept everything, at least not at this moment.
Create a to do list and update it daily. It will help you both prioritize your work and keep it in front of you.
Organize your desk. Being organized will help you be more efficient, so start with your desk. Organization saves time, and time is what we need more of.
Label your folders (whether digital or paper folders) so that you can easily find what you’re looking for.
Group tasks together to get more done.
Block out your most productive time of the day to do and what really needs to be done.
Use electronic reminders.
You will minimize distractions if you set office hours.
Control your email by having set time do you will look at it. If you check it every time you receive a notification, you will be distracted far too often.
Cell phones are needed, but you don’t have to look at them as much as you do. You do not have to let it stop your conversation or concentration.
Have an agenda for a meeting. One of the greatest time wasters in a meeting is not having a specific agenda.
Attend only the meetings that are needed. You cannot attend every meeting if you are going to maximize your time.
Discover your boss’s work style and adjust yours to that.
Find a mentor or coach to help you learn more and be more efficient.
Don’t be rude or unaccommodating, but do protect your time.
Learn to say “no” when things are not aligned with your goals and projects.
Realize that your procrastination is costing you a lot of time.
Never fear what you don’t know, just learn how to do it so you will become better at your job.
Interest is not needed to get the job done, determination is. So if you are not interested, then become interested and get the job done.
Use travel time to catch up on work or to be prepared for when you land. Whether in the airport, on the plane, on a shuttle, or taxi, it’s possible times that you can take advantage and get work done.
Your time on TV sucks life from time with people. Use your time at home for other things, not just disappearing alone to the television.
Prepare your day the night before. Make your preparations the night before so you’re ready to start in the morning.
Don’t procrastinate. Putting things off is terribly costly.
80/20 principal. Place high on your priorities that which is going to yield the most fruit (organizationally or personally).
ABC Priorities. What must be done now, be done soon, or should wait until later?
Write down the tasks as you receive them. Some tasks that you receive are verbal, but however they come you should write them down to place on your to-do list.
Set deadlines for each of your tasks.
Under-commit and over-deliver. You can’t accept everything, at least not at this moment.
Create a to do list and update it daily. It will help you both prioritize your work and keep it in front of you.
Organize your desk. Being organized will help you be more efficient, so start with your desk. Organization saves time, and time is what we need more of.
Label your folders (whether digital or paper folders) so that you can easily find what you’re looking for.
Group tasks together to get more done.
Block out your most productive time of the day to do and what really needs to be done.
Use electronic reminders.
You will minimize distractions if you set office hours.
Control your email by having set time do you will look at it. If you check it every time you receive a notification, you will be distracted far too often.
Cell phones are needed, but you don’t have to look at them as much as you do. You do not have to let it stop your conversation or concentration.
Have an agenda for a meeting. One of the greatest time wasters in a meeting is not having a specific agenda.
Attend only the meetings that are needed. You cannot attend every meeting if you are going to maximize your time.
Discover your boss’s work style and adjust yours to that.
Find a mentor or coach to help you learn more and be more efficient.
Don’t be rude or unaccommodating, but do protect your time.
Learn to say “no” when things are not aligned with your goals and projects.
Realize that your procrastination is costing you a lot of time.
Never fear what you don’t know, just learn how to do it so you will become better at your job.
Interest is not needed to get the job done, determination is. So if you are not interested, then become interested and get the job done.
Use travel time to catch up on work or to be prepared for when you land. Whether in the airport, on the plane, on a shuttle, or taxi, it’s possible times that you can take advantage and get work done.
Your time on TV sucks life from time with people. Use your time at home for other things, not just disappearing alone to the television.
January 30, 2020
A bit dated in 2020, but "Quick Ideas" is what it delivers, so it's easy to skip over anything about faxes and PDAs, etc. I liked the format and the writing style, and took 2 pages of dense notes on ideas to implement. Not every idea is for everyone, and there's a fair amount of contradiction ("write it down, because you'll forget it if you just hear it once" and then "don't send memos, just tell people the info"). But, as with so many things in life, both are true, just in the appropriate situations. Some things were really common sense, but some things were clever.
December 31, 2019
Es básicamente un libro de autoayuda que bien puede ser útil para el público en general. Debe ser leído por los que buscan ideas para abandonar malos hábitos y los deseosos de buenos consejos en el ejercicio de su vida profesional.
July 2, 2020
Not many "new" ideas, basically covering the same tips you can find all over the internet.
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July 18, 2021Many good tools to consider to save time, though I don’t recall any of them now, except for do not Procrastinate, with tips 115-124 to aid to get beyond.
January 15, 2022
It may work for those that work in offices in urban areas, but not so many for those of us who live in smaller, rural areas. Also many seemed repetitive
April 13, 2011
Unless you're very organized to the T I suggest everybody get one of this. I was reading through this for personal use because I feel like i have 10s of things to do in one time and I needed tips. This book actually offered tips, tricks and suggestions on how to manage your busy life. Personally, I like to put this on my Reference shelf so I can just pull and look through anytime I like.
May 18, 2011
repeated points,i think it actually was a waste of time..
it might be good for office workers though..
one point i liked though: make a reading folder where your scraps of reading materials can be stored.. then you'd be able to read those at your leisure time.
it might be good for office workers though..
one point i liked though: make a reading folder where your scraps of reading materials can be stored.. then you'd be able to read those at your leisure time.
February 25, 2012
A lot of the ideas are really just repeats. Also, a person with an ounce of common sense is already employing most of these points. I skimmed through the last half hoping for one nugget of good advice. I was disappointed. Boooo
February 20, 2010
I learned more good ideas to save my time
February 25, 2012
Yet on page 25. But seems really good to continue. Example:''Procrastination is one of the most significant causes of lost time and overtime.''
August 22, 2012
I took this off the shelf at work and I read it between running integration tests. Talk about multitasking.... :D
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