101 Ways to Make Every Second Count: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success with Less Stress PDF
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101 Ways to Make Every Second Count : title: Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success With Less Stress author: Bly, Robert W. publisher: The Career Press isbn10 | asin: 1564144062 print isbn13: 9781564144065 ebook isbn13: 9780585201399 language: English subject Time management. publication date: 1999 lcc: HD69.T4B57 1999eb ddc: 650.1 subject: Time management. Page 3 101 Ways To Make Every Second Count Time Management Tips and Techniques for More Success with Less Stress By Robert W. Bly CAREER PRESS Franklin Lakes, NJ Page 4 Copyright © 1999 by Robert W. Bly All rights reserved under the Pan-American and International Copyright Conventions. This book may not be reproduced, in whole or in part, in any form or by any means electronic or mechanical, including photocopying, recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system now known or hereafter invented, without written permission from the publisher, The Career Press. 101 WAYS TO MAKE EVERY SECOND COUNT Cover design by Barry Littmann Printed in the U.S.A. by Book-mart Press To order this title, please call toll-free 1-800-CAREER-1 (NJ and Canada: 201-848-0310) to order using VISA or MasterCard, or for further information on books from Career Press. The Career Press, Inc., 3 Tice Road, PO Box 687, Franklin Lakes, NJ 07417 Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Bly, Robert W. 101 ways to make every second count: time management tips and techniques for more success with less stress / by Robert W. Bly. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 1-56414-406-2 (pbk.) 1. Time management. I. Title. II. Title: One hundred one ways to make every second count. III. Title: One hundred and one ways to make every second count. HD69.T4B57 1999 650.1dc21 99-25026 CIP Page 5 Dedication To Eleanor Brangan, who taught me how to write Acknowledgments Thanks to the staff at Career Press for having faith in me and in this book . . .and then helping me to make the manuscript much better than it was when it first crossed their desks. Page 7 Contents Introduction 9 Chapter 1 15 Quick Tips to Speed You Up Chapter 2 35 Do you Really Want to Be Productive? Chapter 3 55 The 10% Solution for Increased Personal Efficiency Chapter 4 73 Mastering the Time Management See-Saw Chapter 5 87 Using Technology to Save Time Chapter 6 105 Delegation and Outsourcing Chapter 7 125 Getting Organized Chapter 8 141 Maximizing Your Personal Energy Page 8 Chapter 9 155 Managing Information Overload Chapter 10 171 Off-loading and Priority Management Appendix 183 Sources and Resources About the Author 187 Index 189 Page 9 Introduction "You may delay, but Time will not." Benjamin Franklin, American statesman and philosopher I'm looking at my watch. It's 8:38 on a Friday morning. By my calculations, I have only approximately 204,400 waking hours of life left. And I intend to make the most of the time still available to me. How about you? Today, the demands on our time are tremendous. Everyone has too much to do and not enough time to do it. According to an article in Men's Health magazine (March, 1997), 42 percent of American workers believe they are overloaded with work. We live in the Age of Now. Customers are more demanding than ever. They want everything yesterday. As Miami Herald columnist Leonard Pitts comments, "We move faster than ever, but never quite fast enough." (The Record, October 27, 1997) "When our society travels at electronic speed, we fall under the sway of a new force . . .the power of now," says Stephen Bertman, a professor at the University of Windsor, in the article Page 10 "Stephen Bertman on Hyperculture." (Future Times, Fall, 1998). "It replaces duration with immediacy, permanence with transcience, memory with sensation, insight with impulse." He argues that this acceleration of change contributes to "a growing sense of stress, disorientation, and loss." On the other hand, if you master strategies for coping with today's accelerated pace, you can meet the demands placed upon you while still having time for yourself. According to an article in American Demographics (January, 1999), consumers have come to view time as their most precious commodity: "To satisfy today's consumer, you need to do business in a real-time worldone in which time and distance collapse, action and response are simultaneous, and customers demand instant gratification." "We've learned to live by the Rule of 6," notes Gary Springer in an article in the Business-to-Business Marketer (February, 1998). "What used to take six months, now takes six weeks; what used to take six weeks now is wanted in six days; what normally took six days is needed in six hours; and what used to be done in six hours is now expected in six minutes." Technology, says Springer, is responsible for much of this change. Downsizing has left organizations leaner and meaner. Thousands of workers have been fired, and those who remain must take up the slack and are working harder than ever. According to a Harris poll, the average work week increased from 41 to 50 hours between 1973 and 1993. A radio commercial for Bigelow Herbal Tea observes, "We seem to live our lives in perpetual motion." In fact, we're so busy, we don't even have time to eat! For instance, the "lunch hour" is disappearing from the American business world. Workers more frequently eat lunch at their desks. The article "Shrinking Lunch Hours" (The Futurist, August/September, 1998) tells us that 40 percent take no lunch break at all and the typical lunch break is 36 minutes, although many people use that time to take care of personal business rather than eat. Recently I read that cereal sales are declining because cereal and milk can't be eaten in the car while driving; breakfast bars meet that need better.
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