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What do Gloria Steinem and I.B.M. have in common?
Both have sought the advice of Alan Lakein, famous time management expert, in order to minimize the time they waste and to maximize their productive capabilities. Now his practical widwom and amazingly effective simple rules are available to you:

  • How to build your willpower
  • How to waste time for pleasure and profit
  • How to work smarter, not harder
  • And much, much more

Reading this book can be the wisest investment of your time that ...

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Overview

What do Gloria Steinem and I.B.M. have in common?
Both have sought the advice of Alan Lakein, famous time management expert, in order to minimize the time they waste and to maximize their productive capabilities. Now his practical widwom and amazingly effective simple rules are available to you:

  • How to build your willpower
  • How to waste time for pleasure and profit
  • How to work smarter, not harder
  • And much, much more

Reading this book can be the wisest investment of your time that you have ever made!

Product Details

  • ISBN-13: 9780451167729
  • Publisher: Penguin Group (USA) Incorporated
  • Publication date: 2/28/1989
  • Format: Mass Market Paperback
  • Edition description: Reissue
  • Pages: 160
  • Product dimensions: 4.36 (w) x 6.90 (h) x 0.44 (d)

Table of Contents

How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life 1. Why You Should Care About Your Time
Time is Life / Work smarter, not harder / Enjoy life more / Thousands have benefited and so can you

2. Your Payoff: Control of Your Life
What I mean by control / Beware the "time nut" / Watch out for the overorganizer / Avoid the overdoer / Make this book work for you / Your payoff: Control of your time—and your life

3. Drift, Drown Or Decide
Understanding the choice-making process / How to avoid time conflicts / You are The Decision Maker / Why deciding is so difficult / Long term goals versus short term benefits / How you really make decisions

4. Control Starts With Planning
Bring the future into the present / How often should you plan / You can't do too much planning / Learn from professionals / How to set priorities for now / Using the ABC Priority System

5. What Do You Really Want From Life?
How to discover what you really want to do—and do it / 15,000 people can't be wrong / What are your lifetime goals / How would you like to spend the next three years / What if you knew you'd be struck dead by lightning in six months / What to do with your answers / How to resolve goal conflicts / Selecting your three A-goals / When to revise your lifetime goals statement

6. Get Started Right Now
List activities toward your A-goals / Try for quantity and speed / Don't confuse goals and activities / Eliminate low-priority tasks / Pick a priority for now

7. How Scheduling Helps
Don't be overwhelmed by routine tasks / Everybody has time for planning / When you should plan / How to block out A-Time / Internal and external Prime Time / For effective scheduling—stay loose

8. How To Find Time You Never Knew You Had
Avoid the executive treadmil / Get more done by doing nothing / Practice "wasting" your time / The homemaker's special problem / Make the most of "transition time" / How to use commuting time / The true price of lunch / How to use waiting time / Make your sleep work for you / How to repeal Parkinson's Law / Special Emphasis Goals

9. Making The Most Of Priorities
The To Do List—a fundamental time planning tool / Put it on paper / What belongs on your list / Set priorities, set priorities, set priorities / "Grouping"—and how to use it / Don't worry about completing your list / How to do more things that matter

10. Tasks Better Left Undone
Skip those C's / Why A's are harder / Remember the 80/20 rule / When not to do C's / When a "C" becomes a crisis / Why you need a C-drawer / Why every housewife deserves a desk / Next stop: The wastebasket / How to keep on top of paperwork / Handle each piece of paper only once / Coping with information overload / How to read a book like a newspaper / Should you try speed reading

11. Accommodating Yourself And OtherPeople
You can't satisfy everyone all the time / How to say "No" / Compromises that work / Agreeing on priorities / Respect other peoples time —they'll respect yours

12. How To Create Quiet Time For Yourself
Unmask the interrupters / Tips for the executive / When the interrupter is a four-year old / Contact time versus thinking time / Set up availability hours / Making quiet time work

13. Ask Lakein's Queation
"What is the best use of my time right now?" / When to ask Lakein's Question / A fast pace pays off / When perfectionism helps—and when it doesn't

14. Using The Swiss Cheese Method
How to know when you're procrastinating / How to overwhelm the overwhelming A-1 / How to put holes into Swiss cheese / What five minutes can do / The value of instant tasks / Make a last-ditch try

15. How To Find Instant Tasks For Instant Involvement
"The Magic If" / Get more information to get involved / Try a leading task / Take advantage of your current mood / Give yourself a pep talk / Make a commitment to someone

16. Try Stimulus Change To Keep Involved
Always have a next step ready / How not to become bored / Rest breaks and work breaks / Find fresh bait for fresh involvement / Not enough information—or too much? / The cushion that never got made

17. Sometimes It Pays To Slow Down
Don't run away from that distateful A-1 / What to do at "Decision Time" / How to take control of the decision-making process / Slow down that final decision

18. Don't Let Fear Get In Your Way
How fear leads to avoidance / Bypass your fear / How to exinguish fear / How to contain fear / How to "judo" fear / Ballooning your fears / No fear, no procrastination

19. The Real Price of Delay
How delay escalates problems / The consequences of delay / Consider the risks / The drawbacks of working under pressure / How to avoid deadline-mania

20. Learn To Stress The Benefits
How to muster enthusiasm at decision time / The plus and minus test / How to reward yourself / Adding extra benefits

21. How To Get Back After You've Escaped
What's your favorite Escape / Seven common Escapes / Admit you're wasting time / How to cut off your Escape routes / You can procrastinate positively

22. How To Do Better Next Time
Increase your willpower in seven crucial situations / Try these exercises to build your willpower / How to wean yourself away from TV / A little more willpower now is a lot more later

23. Do Your Best And Consider It A Success
Mistakes can save time / Not trial and error, but trial and success / "If a thing is worth doing, it's worth doing badly!" / Case history of a "failure"

Appendix: How I Save Time

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  • Anonymous

    Posted May 7, 2006

    Brief with no sacrafice of content or power

    This book, if it was not the first book on time management was one of the first books on time management. Almost every other book on time management I have seen has rehashed what was written in this book over 35 years ago. Though some of the examples sound quaint I think they are still relevant to the needs of contemporary life. In my opinion this book still stands head and shoulders above other books of the genre because it says it all and it says it briefly without sacrificing content.

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  • Posted July 18, 2009

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    Excellent, concise, classic

    First read this book back in the seventies. Many good, practical ideas for being more productive and making better use of your time.

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  • Posted February 12, 2009

    Best book I've ever read on time management

    I must have read this ten years ago and it still drives my life. Terrific, practical advice. Glad I found it.

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  • Posted November 9, 2011

    Highly recommended for anyone who needs to get their lives and business under control.

    I bought the book at a seminar I attended on this subject in 1975 or so. The author was presenting the seminar on film and I embraced his plan and still follow his concepts today. I recently reread the book and was reminded of how many of his brilliant ideas I am still using. His methods just made so much sense to me and were very easy to work into my life. The book is now old and yellowed, so I am ordering it for my Nook and ordering two more copies of the book to pass on to my sons. It is still a life changing book today.

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