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Title: Help Yourself Get Everything Done : and Still Have Time to Play by Mark Forster ISBN: 0-658-02150-8 Publisher: McGraw-Hill/Contemporary Books Pub. Date: 20 July, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $10.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.29 (7 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A book written by someone who was a poor time manager
Comment: Many of the books about managing time seem to be written by systematic organized people who share their techniques, and the assumption is that you too can manage time if you follow their methods.
Mark Forster started from the position that he was poor at managing his time. He analyzed what was going on, and recognized that the problem he had was about attention and about poor habits. He also noted that some of the most time-effective people he knew didn't use time management techniques at all. He created a series of training exercises, described in the book, which will help develop more effective habits.
The book is personal, and describes the problems he had in learning his new methods in an interesting form. I'd recommend this book for anyone who wants to be more effective in getting things done.
Rating: 1
Summary: This is how to do things the hard way - says author
Comment: I was fascinated to read the previous, highly enthusiastic, reviews for this book. And here's why (it's a statement from this authors new book - it is framed as a discussion with himself):
"What I wrote about resistance in my [first] book is great for people who are working in what I call Push Mode.
What do you mean by that?
It's the opposite of what I call Pull Mode. Essentially the difference is that in Push Mode you are pushing yourself towards your goals. In Pull Mode you are allowing your goals to pull you towards them. The results may look much the same, but Pull Mode is much less effortful [sic] and relies more on the unconscious activity of the brain rather than conscious linear processing."
Clearly even the author doesn't think there's any point in buying this book, as it will only show you how to do things the hard way.
So maybe you'll want to get the new book instead, so you can be right up to date.
Or better yet, why not hang on for a little while. No doubt there'll be yet another book along soon to show us an even better way of managing our lives?
Alternatively, I suspect many readers will be smart enough to spot the pattern and will choose to invest in an author who doesn't completely change their mind every time the sales figures for their current book start to dip.
Rating: 5
Summary: One of the most unique books on life management
Comment: "The danger is that better time management techniques will lead to bigger and better overwhelm."
Since we cannot add more actual time to the day we must be conscious of what activities consume time. Which ones do we most want to get done and which other activities we can say no to. As Mark says it is Life management rather than time management. Other topics he discusses are: What does someone who seems to be on top of everything all the time do differently than those who seem to always be one step behind? What is the need to manage our lives better? Common time management techniques their good and bad points. Overcomming resistances, focusing our attention, and breaking bad habits. There are many more topics and many exercises.
This book was an entertaining and motivating look at managing ones life. I am now reading it through for the second time.
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Title: The 12 Bad Habits That Hold Good People Back : Overcoming the Behavior Patterns That Keep You From Getting Ahead by Ph.D. Timothy Butler, Ph.D. James Waldroop ISBN: 0385498500 Publisher: Currency Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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Title: Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Work and Life by David Allen ISBN: 0670032506 Publisher: Viking Press Pub. Date: 11 September, 2003 List Price(USD): $19.95 |
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Title: Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity by David Allen ISBN: 0142000280 Publisher: Penguin USA (Paper) Pub. Date: January, 2003 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Overcoming Procrastination; Or How to Think and Act Rationally in Spite of Life's Inevitable Hassles by William J. Knaus, William J. Krause ISBN: 0451159314 Publisher: New American Library Pub. Date: October, 1983 List Price(USD): $5.99 |
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Title: 10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management by Hyrum W. Smith ISBN: 0446670642 Publisher: Warner Books Pub. Date: 01 January, 1995 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
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