Product Description

The quest to win back your time is a noble pursuit, but it's a fast-paced and frenzied existence you're enduring. With all that competes for your time and attention, how do you alter the pace of your career and life so you are in control of your time? How can you enjoy what your career and life have to offer, and once again have time to reflect, to ponder, to muse?

This book is about winning back and managing your time. The chances are astronomical-to-nearly-100% that you lost it the last decade. In this book, we'll stay with the tried and true. Some of the tips may seem quite innovative but they work and work well.

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #171314 in Books
• Published on: 2001-12-28
• Number of items: 1
• Binding: Paperback
• 360 pages

Download Description
"The quest to win back your time is a noble pursuit, but it's a fast-paced and frenzied existence you're enduring. With all that competes for your time and attention, how do you alter the pace of your career and life so you are in control of your time? How can you enjoy what your career and life have to offer, and once again have time to reflect, to ponder, to muse? This book is about winning back and managing your time. The chances are astronomical-to-nearly-100% that you lost it the last decade. In this book, we'll stay with the tried and true. Some of the tips may seem quite innovative but they work and work well. "

Book Info
Offers a way to take back what you've got. This friendly, comforting guide is filled with invaluable insight and advice that puts perspective on time and teaches in a stepwise fashion how to regain control over this valuable commodity. Softcover.

About the Author

Jeff Davidson is a popular speaker at annual conventions and private company conferences, speaking on topics vital to success in today's ultra-competitive marketplace. Jeff's forte is helping people manage information and communication overload. His most requested topics include: Managing the Pace with Grace Relaxing at High Speed Managing Multiple Priorities Creating More Space and Time in Your Life

Jeff has addressed almost every industry, from aviation to zoology, and has spoken to individuals in administration, law, banking, education, finance, government, health care, manufacturing, retailing, and wholesaling. He has also addressed charitable organizations, executive round tables, and partner's programs.

His client list includes many companies among the Fortune 500, and national and international associations and organizations including AOL Online, Bank of America, Swissotel, Allied Signal, IBM, American Express, Westinghouse, Dollar Rent-a-Car, and Wells Fargo as well the IRS, National Association of Realtors, and American Congress of Health Care Executives.

Companies who have retained Jeff as a consultant or speaker have reported impressive results. His consulting and speaking career has taken him to six countries and 44 states (he stands ready to speak in Washington State, Idaho and Utah as well as Arkansas, Alabama, and Mississippi!).

Jeff also is the author of 31 books. Besides The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time, he has written five other books in the series including: The Complete Idiot's Guide to Change Management, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reinventing Yourself, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Stress, The Complete Idiot's Guide to Reaching Your Goals, and The Complete Idiot's Guide to Assertiveness.

Jeff is a frequent television and radio talk show guest appearing on CNBC, Late Night with Charlie Rose, America in the Morning, Money Radio, Sun Radio, and the Australian Broadcasting Company. He's been interviewed/cited countless times in the Washington Post, USA Today, Chicago Tribune, and Los Angeles Times. The hallmark of Jeff Davidson's books, keynote presentations, and media appearances is an insatiable quest to find an easier way to accomplish goals, a versatile intellect, an empathetic perspective, and an extraordinary capability to focus on the current issues and obstacles blocking the path of today's career professionals. These qualities are all brought to bear as Jeff actively engages, stimulates, and inspires both his readers and his audiences. The result is an enjoyable, educational, uplifting experience. For more information on Jeff's presentation visit BreathingSpace, send him an email: Jeff@BreathingSpace.com or call 919-932-1996

Customer Reviews

Have Energy, Can Manage.
I was browsing at the library when this book caught my eye. For several months I had felt Tired, to the point I was starting to get depressed about it. It was beginning to interfere with everything I did.
This book lists symptoms of not enough sleep and dehydration- now I'm sure I was suffering from both. Also listed were lots of good tips for getting more sleep. (I figured out how to drink more water by myself.) :) This is pretty basic, but so helpful! After all, a perfectly prioritized schedule is worthless if you don't have the energy to do your tasks.
Once you get your engine started, the author helps you feel a sense of accomplishment everyday by striking a dynamic bargain with yourself-
"What would it take for me to feel good about ending work on time today?"
He helps you determine long-term goals and break them down into plans with built in rewards and vacations. This is a good thing to know how to do. In the book, Get Hired Now! A 28-Day Program for Landing the Job You Want, a study is mentioned involving the 1979 Harvard MBA program. Students were asked, "Have you set clear, written goals for your future and made plans to accomplish them?"
3% had written goals and plans
13% had goals, but not in writing
84% had no specific goals at all
10 years later...
the 13% who had goals were earning TWICE as much as the 84% who had no goals. The 3% who had clear, written goals were earning TEN times as much as the other 97% put together.
The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time outlines how to do what the 3% were doing.
I only give this 4 stars because I was perfectly happy to take 2 pages of notes and return it to the library- not something I'll reference frequently enough to buy, but still, a helpful book.

A word from the author
Dear Frazzled, Time-Pressed, Never-Have-an-Extra-Second Reader,

If freeing up oodles of time and breaking bad time-use habits is of interest to you, then read on--you have come to the right place. As the commercial goes, "You've got questions, I've got answers!"

Welcome to the third edition of the Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time. Understandably, this book is more useful than the second edition, and much more updated than the first. More than 160,000 of the first two editions are now in print. (I have always relied on the kindness of strangers--book buyers--to do their part: buy dozens and dozens of copies for your immediate family, best friends, and for special occasions such as graduation, weddings, funerals, retirement parties, baby showers, and Groundhog Day.)

Now, well into the 21st century, it's no secret that everywhere you look, for everyone you know, the pace of life has sped up and seemingly is getting faster all the time. Watching people drive SUVs as they speed around crowded intersections with one hand on the steering wheel and the other on the cell phone is not a pretty sight. The juggling and struggling of people seeking to get a lot of things done in a hurry makes for some questionable behaviors, some of them risky, some merely silly. All such behaviors are driven by the same basic notion--there is too much to do and too little time in which to do it.

I don't blame you if you're leery of tackling a large book. After all, this one contains more than 300 pages. Yet, once you start perusing the pages, you'll see that this is an easy read. I'm on your side; I did not create more work for you by making a text that is hard to read and whose advice is hard to apply. Each chapter tackles a particular issue related to the overall theme of managing your time.

The Complete Idiot's Guide to Managing Your Time is loaded with insights and witticisms that ring true and that you'll be able to apply to the everyday issues you face. I don't lay on a ton of rules that you're supposed to memorize and apply around the clock. You don't need that kind of assignment--you're already very busy! Rather, I offer a handful of guiding principles that work in pretty much any situation, any time, for anyone who draws upon them.

My goal in writing this book is to offer you a solid framework for taking charge of your time by offering practical, commonsensical, fresh approaches for seizing control of your day, year, life, and maybe even your afterlife. You won't have to get up at 4:30 a.m., spend a small fortune, surround yourself with high-tech gadgets, or clone yourself.

If you're like most people, you want to finish your day's work and still have a life. You want to reclaim your weekends for leisure and fun-filled activities. You want to embark on invigorating, relaxing vacations. In short, you want to win back your time so that you can have a life!

Within these 27 chapters, there are dozens upon dozens of tips, suggestions, and recommendations. Not all of them will apply to everybody. Some may rub you the wrong way, some may be totally out of reach, and some may represent ideas that don't seem palatable to you. That's okay--what's vital is that there are enough tips and suggestions that do fit your scheme of doing things, that aid you in controlling your time, and that enhance the quality of your day.

When it comes to reading this book, you have lots of options! You can read the whole thing from cover to cover (the way I read books) and you'll do quite well. You will find the text to be witty, though entirely readable and hard-hitting. You have the option of reading a chapter at a time, not necessarily in chronological order. For example, you may have some burning issue that's addressed in one of the middle chapters of the book. In that case, plunge in right there! You can always go back to the earlier chapters. Take action where and when it makes the most sense.

You also have the option of dabbling. Open the book to any single page or paragraph at random and simply begin reading. I promise that you'll benefit no matter where you start because every page and passage is packed with high-octane insights and suggestions.

As you begin to master managing your time, subtly, almost imperceptibly, you'll experience positive, significant differences in your life. Indeed, the world takes on a totally different hue when you build some slack into your days and stay in control.

All the best to you on your personal and exciting journey to reclaiming your life, year, month, week, day, and now as you become a master at managing your time.

Finally managing my time wisely!
I was pleasantly surprised. At first I thought this was going to be a too light treatment to a topic that's important to me. Even though the author does take a humorous approach, I guess the whole series of idiot's guides takes a humorous approach, nevertheless, I found the tips to be hard hitting and practical. If I had this earlier in my career I might have saved a whole lot of time on stuff that for all practical purposes was a waste of time.
I don't know why the previous reader gave such a bad review, I think they were talking about another book!