A book that offers to help you be more in control of your life and experience inner peace as a result. Smith emphasizes tying your core values to your decisions and actions. His time management suggestions go beyond managing time more efficiently. The key is to deepen your self-awareness of your values and beliefs. He demonstrates through examples that changing basic beliefs results in a change in behavior.

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Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #92572 in Books
• Published on: 1995-01-01
• Original language: English
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 240 pages

From Publishers Weekly
Strongly influenced by Benjamin Franklin, Smith, CEO of a Utah consulting company, offers insightful pronouncements on America's time fragmentation. "Life is getting more and more hectic. The daily treadmill is accelerating, and we have to run faster and faster just to stay in one place." His recommendations for regaining control of time, events and hence life are intriguing, as are his suggestions on goal setting, planning and negative behavior traits. Yet Smith's sharply focused managerial constructs become muddled with material on "life management," aimed at achieving "inner peace--the transcendant feeling of fulfillment and well-being." And his commercial endorsements of his company's seminars and products are irksome . Author tour.
Copyright 1993 Reed Business Information, Inc.

From AudioFile
This in an exceptional audio production of the author's 1993 book on how to get your time and life organized around what matters to you. A lot of the advice is technical--things like goal setting, using a day planner, and making adjustments based on results--but his illustrations are so well crafted that it flows more like a novel than a self-help book. The meat of the audio is in the author's marvelous insights on how to understand belief systems and personal rules, and habits. He emphasizes learning from one's mistakes and staying flexible. Read by George Lee Andrews with gentle intelligence, humility, and moral confidence, this is a must-hear audio for anyone wanting a more integrated and effective life. T.W. © AudioFile 2001, Portland, Maine-- Copyright © AudioFile, Portland, Maine

From Booklist
Smith is CEO of Franklin Quest, a company that conducts time-management seminars for corporations, organizations, and government agencies, reaching as many as 20,000 persons per month. It also sells day-planner scheduling books as an integral part of the time-management system it touts. This highly successful company was founded by Smith a little more than 10 years ago and was modeled on the self-improvement system outlined in Benjamin Franklin's autobiography. Smith argues that there is much more to managing time than getting things done. He preaches that only by understanding one's own value system can one decide what matters most, set priorities, and accomplish one's goals. The result is not only a better-organized life but a more fulfilling one. By focusing on time, Smith has provided a self-improvement book that almost everyone can use--and benefit from. David Rouse

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Customer Reviews

I thought a day planner was such a waste
I thought a day planner was a waste until I read this book. Now I don't laugh when I see someone carrying one.

Hyrum Smith is the inventor of the (Franklin) Day Planner, so naturally he is able to sell it. He developed it is an outgrowth of time management training seminars that he has taught all over the world. In the first few chapters he details how to use your day planner to take notes, set reminders in the future, and keep it all connected.

Time management turns out to be a small part of this book. Hyrum's thesis is you will never be happy with managing your time unless your use of time is in sync with your personal values. Ergo, the title, Time and LIFE management. He elaborates a model of our behavior to show this. Have you ever discovered a belief or prejudice that you had to unlearn the hard way? And once you did, relationships with your significant other, coworkers, and/or friends got better? Hyrum's model attempts to explain these "aha"s and epiphanies.

I found my reading of this book very timely for myself; others who are not so introspective may find it profound, while I would expect some to find it boring.

Excellent Book
Have been waiting 1month to receive this excellent book. It is in great condition and protective packaging. Looks like new.

10 Natural Laws of Successful Time and Life Management
Down to ground language, easy reading, understandable and most important easy and practical to implement.