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Summary: Great read, and down to the point.
Review: This book was my first time management book. I've picked up "The Time Trap" by Alec Mackenzie after this reading, and in comparison, this book is much more thorough. The best part about this book I think is the simple idea of prioritizing your to do list. I have started to do this and found myself to be able to get more important things done. It also helps greatly with your concentration for the current task by stating to yourself that this is the most important task to do at the moment. Anyhow, great time management book for newbies.
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Summary: Wonderful!
Review: This book was sitting around the house for quite some time until I fortunately picked it up to look through it! This book SPOKE TO ME! There are 2 types of perfectionists: those who do everything, and those who do nothing.. I'm the latter. Through the straight-forward, tell-it-how-it-is approach, I felt like somebody else related to me! I've read time management books before, but it's no wonder this is a national best-seller. Honestly, I haven't read it all the way through, since it motivates me to get going, but I enjoy reading it! Also, it doesn't get old like most things do for me! That's because "I" get to decide what my priorities are. These last few weeks since I've found this book have been so sweet. It's not the kind of book that makes you feel you're not doing what's the most important thing (and what you WANT to do! ). Also, the swiss cheese idea really stuck to me. It says to just spend 5 min. on your A-1. There were goals I had, but never recognized them as such or gave them the attention they deserved. Just last week, I was so thrilled and felt so alive to not just worry about a particualar goal I had, but instead, to take action. Um, the BEST part (or one of the best parts! ) about this book is coming up with your A-1, A-2, A-3... goals! I had my mom do it, as I read off from the book how to, and she was so thankful. It was just amazing! This book has changed my life from the moment I picked it up. I used to feel like doing Homework and Projects and such at the very last minute, since I knew it would get done, and I'd be forced to turn it in as is. Now, I see that I've changed in such simple, but helpful ways! I actually started on a project a week before it was due! Simply amazing. My life was a constant running from one crisis to the next (all-nighters common). I'm almost dumbfounded at how NORMALIZED it is. I never knew this bliss..
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Summary: God Created the Garden of Eden - and then everything else...
Review: This is THE time management book. I have tried to buy better books. Afterall, the book is ancient. 27 years old. But, you see, they invented the wheel. It's hard to do again. Don't go down that alley! You know what I'm talking about. Other time management books. I did buy an unusual one. Published originally in German. It was so cool! Until I figured out that all your activities were supposed to be coordinated with your, ahem, biorythms. Those charts that were a fad about two million years ago. Not the medical ones now. I was not terribly delighted. I'm not sure that Edison was the first to discover electricity. It might have been the Arabs. But Lakein got time management into book form. I've read this book four times! And I underlined it in blue. If you want to be an Amazon.com reviewer, buy this book. A-1. You will find out what this means. Good luck.
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Summary: Thumbs up
Review: This little book is an easy read, but is invaluable for the person with many things to do and little time in which to do them. It is essential particularly for the busy executive who wants to work smarter rather than harder. Alan Lakein offers straightforward, no nonsense advice on how to manage time more efficiently.There are many good points in this volume, and to mention all of them would require a lengthy review. A few of the most outstanding nuggets are as follows: Set priorities.
Ask Lakein's question - "what is the best use of my time right now?"
Use the Swiss cheese method to reduce intimidating tasks
Employ "The Magic If."
Cut off your escape route. Since I am a person who savors managing time as wisely as possible, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The small time investment made in reading it will pay dividends many times over in time saved. Get it and see for yourself!
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Summary: Make the Most of Your Time!
Review: This little book is an easy read, but is invaluable for the person with many things to do and little time in which to do them. It is essential particularly for the busy executive who wants to work smarter rather than harder. Alan Lakein offers straightforward, no nonsense advice on how to manage time more efficiently. There are many good points in this volume, and to mention all of them would require a lengthy review. A few of the most outstanding nuggets are as follows: Set priorities.
Ask Lakein's question - "what is the best use of my time right now?"
Use the Swiss cheese method to reduce intimidating tasks
Employ "The Magic If."
Cut off your escape route. Since I am a person who savors managing time as wisely as possible, I thoroughly enjoyed this book. The small time investment made in reading it will pay dividends many times over in time saved. Get it and see for yourself!
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Summary: This book Can Change Your Life
Review: To say that this book can change your life might seem like hyperbole. Yet this book teaches you to make decisions in a way that certainly can change your life. It is so much more than time management, it is a practical approach to psychology, philosophy and business. It is a well written book, to the point and interesting. There is so much in this little book that it is difficult to summarize. The Contents pages shown on this site give you a good idea of what Lakein covers so very well. This book isn't just for professional people or business people, but for everyone who wants to live a rewarding life. I highly recommend it to all my friends and employees.
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Summary: An excellent short book chock full of helpful tips
Review: What do you really want from life? How do you prioritize and mesh your goals? How do you schedule your time each day to reach your long-range goals, to get the necessary routine tasks out of the way and to have some time for leisure activities? How do you say 'no' to demands on your time. How do you avoid procrastination? Want to know? This very short book covers the essentials of time management.
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Summary: This is the most important life planning book I ever read
Review: When Alan Laiken wrote this book in 1973 he built a mechanism for building goals that I still use today. The method of asking Laikens questions has been a critical part of my personnel success. I have given away perhaps 50 copies of the book over the last 25 years. A timeless classic on career and time management.
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Summary: The best time management book.
Review: When I got the book, I was somewhat sceptical that a book could teach me what I already knew. (Make lists of to-do items etc) But this book is really amazing. It will tell you how you end up wasting time and what to do about it in a positive way. I would like to mention a couple of ideas that I found in this book: a) No matter how silly, do something related to work with a high pay-off. b) Effectiveness (doing the important things) should be preferred over efficiency (Doing something of not much importance very well) I read this book every week and have got an additional copy to carry in my bag always to get these excellent ideas entrenched in my head.
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