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Wish I had this book earlier.
Review: I was seriously needing the kind of advice offered by this book. I'm usually a skeptic when it comes to self help and "a shoulder to cry on" kind of books but I was so down that I bought the book because it was so cheap. It builds your willpower from the way it's written. But the suggestions it offers can make a difference for those of us who are having major scheduling problems. A good read as well, and small/thin enough to fit in a jacket pocket. A good book. Buy a bunch and distribute to your friends if you care about them. Makes a great stocking stuffer! :)
Later!
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Summary: Live your Dream
Review: Are you doing everything you can to live your dream? In this book Alan Lakein gives you the gift of a lifetime -- he shows you, step by step, how to use your time to live the way you've always wanted.
Before you can do what you want, you have to know what you want to do. If you work through this book faithfully, you will emerge with a clear focus of what you want from life.
With that knowledge, you can then refine your activity, year by year, month by month, day by day, to get what you want.
This book is a super life-changer, one of the few that I plan to reread annually, and one of the few that I will give to my children as a manual for living. Seize the day--and grab this book.
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Summary: The book that changed my life the most...
Review: Changed my life tremendously... I wish I have read it fifteen years ago. I will not be too far fetched if I recommend this book to be used as a "must read" in colleges. Very easy to understand and right to the point, gives you simple tools to increase your productivity ten-fold, focus on the right goals and kill procrastination.
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Summary: oldie but goodie ! ! !
Review: Everybody has a dream of some sort. This book is a road map to making it real. I first read it twenty years ago when I was an unfocused puppy and it absolutely changed my life FOREVER! High schools should make it compulsory and there'd be fewer divorces if newly-weds would read it together. I'm buying my drifty, somewhat fey son a copy and plan to keep after him until he DOES it! WARNING: this is a book you don't just read: you have to suspend your disbelief and do it... DO IT NOW!
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Summary: Thumbs up
Review: Good because Lakein makes accommodation for human nature, and works with it and around it, vs. some such books that assume everyone has the self-discipline of a navy seal. He helps procrastinators and the lazy, as well as those who aren't these things but want to improve.
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Summary: Short, smart, super. Top of its kind.
Review: How hard is it to write short? And to think smart? Lakein manages both in this brilliant, slim volume which goes beyond productivity tips (though great ones abound) by first guiding you to the right path for you - so your new-found efficiency will propel you down the road of most satisfaction. One of my top favorite books of all time, all subjects. I revisit it frequently, after twenty years- and it never disappoints.
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Summary: Small cost, rich reward
Review: How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life is, perhaps, the best book on time management ever written. It does not waste your time but gets right to the point. You must establish SMART (specific, measurable, achieveable, related/relevant, and time framed) goals for yourself and then prioritize them using Lakein's A/C system. "A" goals are the most important to you and you must plan on spending 80% of your time to achieve them. "C" goals (TV, lawn care, shopping, etc.) are the place where most people "waste" their lives and spend 80% of their time. This ratio must be reversed, according to Lakein. He would agree with e.e. cummings that "To be nobody but yourself in a world that is night and day trying to make you just like everybody else means to fight the hardest fight any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." Once we have set goals that utilize our unique talents and abilities, we will have the will power and determination to do the work necessary to achieve them. To accomplish our goals Lakein recommends that we make a daily "to do" list and always start with "A's," not "C's." Most of our time is spent working harder on things that don't matter. We may be efficient, but Lakein suggests that our goal is to do what matters most and become effective. "Work smarter, not harder" is the mantra he wants us to repeat and couple that saying with his last piece of advice --"Do it now." Stick your finger into this small book and any page you hit will have wise words to put into action. Learning comes from daily practice and developing habits that "put first things first," taken from Stephen Covey's best seller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People -- also recommended is Covey's fine book on effective living appropriately titled First Things First. Rarely has a book that costs so little paid such rich dividends. You won't be disappointed.
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Summary: This is the essential book on time management
Review: I at minimum skim every book I see on time management. Virtually every author plagiarizes Lakein; they use his ideas verbatim or close to it without giving him credit. And in the end, he actually has a more balanced perspective to help you avoid being a time freak.
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Summary: Almost the bible of time and life management
Review: I believe that it is very hard to find a book which is more important than this book. This book is a must for anyone in any field who wants to achieve much more than s/he did before reading it. It may be not but is very close to the bible of time and life management. Being too far away from ideas inside this book, you will be very hard to achieve anything in your life. The time you read it will be paid off several times. Its ideas are worth reviewing several times.
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Summary: One of my top 5 all-time most helpful books.
Review: I bought this when I was struggling to hold 18 credit hours, a part-time job and a life together and I credit it with helping me turn things around and graduate from college. One of the most clear-headed, sensible books I've ever read, and possibly the one easiest to apply directly to life activities. Buy it, read it, practice it and you will find more value in the time you spend.
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