151 Quick Ideas to Manage Your Time

All too many of us live our lives trying to shoehorn our many activities and responsibilities into the time slots available to accomplish them. Increasingly, for businesspeople, fathers and mothers and even children, ineffectively managing that myriad of activities has become an all-consuming chore. Many of us are so stressed trying to accomplish all the tasks life throws at us that our relationships, job performance and even school performance are negatively affected. Why? Because we organise our times and life poorly: we spend five years of our life just waiting in queues, three years in meetings and two years playing telephone tag! We get interrupted 73 times per day, interfering with our productivity, and take an hour of work home every night, interfering with our family time. But we can solve these problems. This book presents 151 quick and easy ways to meet these challenges in our daily lives. Each idea comes from a real world experience; each is based on the work of people experimenting, examining, exploring and discovering unique solutions to the time problems all of us face every day. These ideas work! They have been tried and tested by others and found successful. Now they are available to you. While all might not be pertinent to your particular circumstances, many will. Select those that fit and try them. Do more in less time, take control of your schedule and create a new balance between your work and family life. You’ll be surprised at how easy it is to take charge of your time and increase the quality of your life: day by day, hour by hour and minute by minute.