Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, and Technology

by Jan Jasper

Overview

For every successful person in a perpetual-crisis mode—swimming in papers, overrun with complicated new technology, hamstrung by details, and starving for time—here are simple, practical strategies for getting back your desk, your peace of mind, and most of all your time.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780312243340
Publisher:	St. Martin's Publishing Group
Publication date:	11/05/1999
Edition description:	First Edition
Pages:	288
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x 0.58(d)

About the Author

Jan Jasper is an organizational and personal systems consultant. She trains clients to better manage their time, paper, projects, and lives. Her articles on getting organized have appeared in New Woman and other magazines and she writes a popular column for the ASJA (American Society of Journalists and Authors) newsletter.

Editorial Reviews

Take Back Your Time is a complete and clear compedium of useful organizing tips. I especially appreciated the section on using practical technology to help you get organized. It's a must-have for your organizing library.” —Stephanie Winston, author of Stephanie Winston's Best Organizing Tips and Getting Organized

“Jasper's book has good tips. I'm impressed with how specific she is. A wonderful and useful book.” —Barbara Sher, author of It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Now and Wishcraft

“Jan Jasper 'gets it'. Time management is not about time. It's about how we manage ourselves. She gives us practicle tools and insights to get it right this time and keep it that way.” —Laura Bergman Fortgang, author of Take Yourself to the Top: The Secrets of America's #1 Career Coach

“Jan Jasper is the ideal productivy expert for the new millennium. This is the first time-management book to address technology in detail.” —Mitch Schlimer, chairman of the Let's Talk Business Network and host of the Let's Talk Business radio show

“Jan Jasper's advice can help everyone get more done in less time. She has put everything all of us less-organized folks need to know and do into one easy-to-follow book.” —Don Gabor, author of How to Start a Conversation and Make Friends

“Jan Jasper shows how to plug the drain of wasted time in your business. Entrepreneurs can double their productivity—and boost their profits—with the tips in this book.” —Terri Lonier, author of Working Solo

“Jan Jasper has gleaned the best ideas from the top self-management experts to offer a panoramic view, and an entirely readable book, on how to win back your time.” —Jeff Davidson, author of The Joy of Simple Living and Breathing Space

“Provides specific techniques you can use to change unproductive habits into productive results.” —Barbara Hemphill, author of Taming the Paper Tiger

From the Publisher

Jan Jasper has gleaned the best ideas from the top self-management experts to offer a panoramic view, and an entirely readable book, on how to win back your time.

author of The Joy of Simple Living and Breathing S Jeff Davidson

Jan Jasper's advice can help everyone get more done in less time. She has put everything all of us less-organized folks need to know and do into one easy-to-follow book.

author of How to Start a Conversation and Make Fri Don Gabor

Jan Jasper 'gets it'. Time management is not about time. It's about how we manage ourselves. She gives us practicle tools and insights to get it right this time and keep it that way.

author of Take Yourself to the Top: The Secret Laura Bergman Fortgang

Jasper's book has good tips. I'm impressed with how specific she is. A wonderful and useful book.

author of It's Only Too Late If You Don't Start Barbara Sher

Take Back Your Time is a complete and clear compedium of useful organizing tips. I especially appreciated the section on using practical technology to help you get organized. It's a must-have for your organizing library.

author of Stephanie Winston's Best Organizing Tip Stephanie Winston