Do you always feel burnt up ? Does your family complain that they never see you. Do you ever wonder when you will really find time for yourself. Are you seeing life passing in front of your eyes but you are not in control of it. Then ‘Getting a Grip on Tim’e is for you. Robyn Pearce’s practical and sound approach to time management focuses on restoring quality, balance and enjoyment in life.
This book is divided in two parts. Part I is about Common-sense time management for all the areas of your life and Part II deals with becoming efficient after you have become effective. It stresses on thinking life as a ladder. It will make you climb the rungs of our ladder of life, checking each rung as we go.
This book also specifies the principles for effective living. Here you will not just find the time saving techniques but also some spiritual advice. Like, we reap what we sow. It asks you to look around and see lives of people. Selfish people live a small-minded, closed existence, physically and mentally blocking the free flow of love and generosity. If we spend time understanding about these fundamental universal principles, and learn to base our lives and the use of time around them, we soon start to feel a sense of power and control in our lives.
It asks you to be proactive. People who take control of their circumstances, who attend to the important activities instead of allowing the urgent items to control them, are proactive. On the other side, a reactive person passively accepts what comes, even when they don’t like it. They tend to feel controlled by the urgencies of everyday life. It also gives list of time-wasters and how to deal with them. According to it, major time wasters are telephone, visitors, lack of planning, socializing, indecision, perfectionism and TV. It cautions you not be soft hearted when dealing with this. You can always show the door to the visitor who is there for a pointless chit-chat. It is also important to understand what drives you.
Try to make your values congruent to your goals. That is the only way to gain the personal satisfaction. You will find lots of examples about it in the book. It will direct you to the utmost details on how to keep you organized. Even explains you how many drawers your table should have and where to put which papers. It also provides you with monthly and weekly planning charts to mark your day-to-day progress. Lots of key points are there which will sum-up the topic in one line.
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