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Dr. Charles R. Hobbs \ PERENNIAL LtaRARY LLJ Harper & Row, Publishers, New York Grand Rapids, Philadelphia, St. Louis, San Francisco London, Singapore, Sydney, Tokyo, Toronto TIME POWER is a registered trademark of the Charles R. Hobbs Corporation. Grateful acknowledgment is made to Day·Timers, Inc., for permission to reprint the following sample pages from the Day-Timers Junior Desk Reference Edition: monthly filler pages, monthly calendar, and Services Performed Today add·in sheet. A hardcover edition of this book is published by Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc. TIME POWER. Copyright © 1987 by Charles R. Hobbs. All rights reserved. Printed in the United States of America. No part of this book may be used or reproduced in any manner whatsoever without written permission except in the case of brief quotations embodied in critical articles and reviews. For information address Harper & Row, Publishers, Inc., 10 East 53rd Street, New York, N.Y. 10022. Published simultaneously in Canada by Fitzhenry & Whiteside Limited, Toronto. First PERENNIAL LIBRARY edition published 1988 Designed by Sidney Feinberg Library of Congress Cataloging-in·Publication Data Hobbs, Charles R. Time power. "Perennial Library." Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Time management. HD69.T54H62 1988 I. Title. 650.1 ISBN 0·06-091490-4 (pbk.) 95 96 97 RJU) 10 9 86-46072 To my beloved wife, Nola, for more than thirty years my closest link with time Contents Acknowledgments ix 1. Making Choices and Taking Charge 1 2. Looking Beneath the Surface of Time Management 7 Vital versus Urgent 4. Self-Unification in Principle 5. Self-Unification in Practice 6. Continuity in Goal Planning 7. Personal-Life Goals 8. Goals with the Company 9. The Time Power System with Datebook Organizer 10. Within the Organization 14 21 41 58 67 97 11. Know Where Your Time Goes 102 12. Two Time Wasters: Preoccupation and Negativism 113 13. Delegation 121 14. Meetings That Never End, Visitors Who Never Leave, and Telephones That Never Stop Ringing 126 15. Fingertip Management 135 16. How to Procrastinate Effectively 142 17. Summary for Action 148 18. One Hundred One Time Management Goals 154 19. Making Your Plan Work 160 Glossary of Time Power Terms 165 Appendix A: The Unifying Principles of Individuals Appendix B: 167 Unifying Principles and the Corporate Culture 181 Annotated Reading List 185 Index 201 - ,· - Acknowledgments Dr. Mitch Tuchman did much for this book as editor in bringing it to its present polished state. To Mitch and Carol Cohen, my editor at Harper and Row, I am indebted. My wife, Nola, and our three children, Chris, Mark, and Jan, have all been instrumental in development of the Time Power System and the preparation of the book. The research and editing by Chris has been most helpful. Nola has been an exceptional sounding board, counselor, and stabilizing support in this work. Glen Hogan attended my Time Power seminar. He became one of our best students and advocates. I am grateful for his introducing my com­ pleted manuscript to Harper and Row, which led to this publication. Dr. Ernest Eberhard, Gary Gillespie, and Robert C. Dorney offered editorial suggestions in earlier drafts. Our cadre of professional seminar leaders and staff in our company have given helpful backup support: Jeannene Barham has been one of our leading players in marketing and operations for several years; Stanna Daniels and Sharon Brinker did most of the typing of the original manu­ script. To all of the above, I thank you. ix 1 Making Choices and Taking Charge How often do you have the kind of day when you feel you hold the world on a string? It's the kind of feeling you would probably like to enjoy more often. The moment when you feel this way is the moment when you are most in control of the events in your life: most in control of what you are doing, most in control in your relationships with others. As your ability to control events increases, those exalted moments become more frequent. There is no way you can control all the events in your life, everything that is going on around you, but there is one fact you must never overlook: you do have choices and you can Jearn to be in charge. One happy outgrowth of being in charge is high self-esteem. As you come to control more of the events in your life, your self-esteem rises. What you will experience in the following pages is a how-to-do-it approach to achieving high self-esteem through personal productivity. The ideas in this book, when put into practice, will give you the ability to make good choices. While the primary emphasis is on you on thejob, these ideas apply equally to your personal life because the Time Power System deals with you: not on the basis of your 40-hour work week, but on the basis of your full 168-hour-a-week, fifty-two-week-a-year, total life perspective. The purpose of this book is to help ineffective managers of time become more effective and to help already effective managers of time excel and, in some instances, achieve preeminence in their fields. Everyone has attained some level of preeminence in life. I really believe that. But no matter how great you are, you can always do better. To paraphrase the 1 2 • T I M E P O W E R British biologist Thomas Huxley, the Time Power System helps you do the thing that needs to be done when it needs to be done in the way it needs to be done whether you like it or not. The Time Power System increases your awareness of the value of managing your time more effectively. It helps you save hours every week. It gives you a relevant, rational basis for setting goals. It helps you be on time for meetings; eliminate trivialities; instantly retrieve necessary data; more important, it helps you accomplish your most vital priorities. But the most satisfying result of all is higher self-esteem. This does not mean that you will never again have a challenging moment. The world throws a curveball at even the best managers of time once in a while, but effective time managers are better equipped than others to cope because they are in control. The Time Power System is built on three key concepts. First, time management is the act of controlling events. For centuries philosophers have associated events with time. Augustine, Kant, and Leibniz, among others, used events to describe time. Einstein proposed that time has no independent existence apart from the order of events by which we measure it. Therefore time is the occurrence of events one after the other. Management is the act of controlling. If you manage something, you control it. If you don't manage it, you don't control it. If you bring yourself to establish appropriate control over appropriate events, you are managing time well. If you really want to establish control in an appropriate framework, you must come to an understanding of the nature of the events going on around you. The events of your day are like the individual members of a symphony orchestra, with you as the conductor. You stand on the podium before that orchestra, and when you bring your arm down, everybody plays in unison, filling out the composition just as the composer planned. Are things going like that for you? You raise your arm high above your head; you indicate a crescendo, and the players give it all they've got. Does that describe your day? Maybe not quite that way. Finally you signal for a rest, and everybody takes a break. Everybody leaves at once, heading off in different directions. If there's anything that really describes us as employees, as managers, as homemakers, as people living, it is that we are often out of control of events. We are not going to look at time management from an academic point of view. We are going to look at it from the practical standpoint of what

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