A great book to set the tone on the importance of managing your own time as it is really the only thing we truly own. I was looking for something a little more aimed at students who are currently enrolled in college courses, however this book is about much more than that. Yes, many of the strategies implemented by entrepreneurs can also be applied to students who need help managing their time, but some are overkill for someone who aims to balance their work, study, and personal life. I believe I found a book that is more oriented towards college students, the book is called The Only Study Guide You'll Ever Need by Jade Bowler. I saw it on a YouTube video and with any luck this book will give me the advice I am looking for.
My biggest takeaway is that a day is just 1,440 minutes. The author says it matters on how you plan, and use this given time. This book reminded me of my dad. He always tells me to wake up early. He wasn't entirely wrong. The book says that morning is when productivity is at its peak. And I was also able to figure out the reasons for procrastination: lack of motivation and underestimating your current ability. As a constant, maybe a 'professional,' procrastinator, I honestly don't find this book's suggestions convincing. That is my problem. I never find a reason to change myself, although I blame myself for everything. I just don't make a plan because I don't wanna feel confined by a plan. But I now see some kind of reason to make a 'plan' because I want to have a day with the night time as the author emphasized. I want to have a shweet movie time.
My most important takeaway from this book is focusing on your MIT every day. What works when it comes to time management, I find, is finding the technique that works for you, rather than trying to apply a multiplicity of techniques, only to find out that nothing is working. And I agree with the author : we cannot manage time. We manage ourselves. We manage our priorities. We manage our focus. And this means understanding what we do with our time. What we choose to pay attention to is what determines our achievements in a day. One step at a time. Always.
Think about how you spend your days; could you spend more time with family or doing things you love? Use your time carefully and get more out of it.
An important task is time-sensitive or something which you need to complete to make progress with a larger task. Learn to say “no” to things you don’t want to do or don’t have the time to do.
It was a bit random. While parts were insightful, it’d drift off into lists of people’s unedited quotes. For 2015, some of the sites mentioned were defunct, and it felt dated.