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Good books on time management / "gaining" time?

post #1 of 14
12/14/09 at 6:12pm
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Yo,

So I'm sure if you haven't though it yourself, someone close to you has... "It's December Already?!" or "I just wish I had more time..." or the Pink Floyd song Time, or the similar lyric(s) from Take The Long Road Home (Supertramp), or "Time Flies" etc. etc.

I know there's books out there, many years ago my father had one called How To Have a 48-Hour Day.

What are the gems of this .. uhh... 'genre' that are actually good, and actually get the job done? No speculations please, I want to hear from someone who's Been There Done That and never looked back.

Thanks!!!
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post #2 of 14
12/14/09 at 6:16pm
7 habits of highly effective people

no book can help you if you are inherently lazy, like me
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post #3 of 14
12/14/09 at 6:18pm
Operations management textbook?
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post #4 of 14
12/14/09 at 8:20pm
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Originally Posted by chesebert View Post
7 habits of highly effective people

no book can help you if you are inherently lazy, like me
I always figured this book was a crazy fad or something, like Scientology (ugh). It's not, then?

EDIT: Uh, let's not talk about Scientology at all after this post. The whole No Religion thing yknow :P
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post #5 of 14
12/14/09 at 8:34pm
I liked Leo Babauta's book, The Power of Less. He is also the author of the blog ZenHabits.net
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post #6 of 14
12/14/09 at 9:33pm
Most successful (healthy, financially stable, quality gf, good relationships with family) lazy person I know swears by The 4-Hour Workweek and Timothy Ferriss
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post #7 of 14
12/14/09 at 9:40pm
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Originally Posted by LeftyGorilla View Post
Most successful (healthy, financially stable, quality gf, good relationships with family) lazy person I know swears by The 4-Hour Workweek and Timothy Ferriss
what are you thought on this book?
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post #8 of 14
12/14/09 at 10:53pm
Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
by Brian Tracy = reading list for working at google.
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post #9 of 14
12/15/09 at 2:24am
I don't know of any specific books, but I stopped watching television in December 1999 following a dispute with the cable company. Long story short, I paid them what they wanted then had them turn it off.

I went through about a month of withdrawal, then productivity went way up. I had an incredible amount of free time to do all the things I had meant to "get around to."

The past six years have been mired in my job a lot, but I'll be looking for a new one soon to get back to a 40 hour week.

Still, I haveno plans to start watching again - there's too much else to do.
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post #10 of 14
12/15/09 at 3:26am
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Originally Posted by Uncle Erik View Post
I don't know of any specific books, but I stopped watching television in December 1999 following a dispute with the cable company. Long story short, I paid them what they wanted then had them turn it off.

I went through about a month of withdrawal, then productivity went way up. I had an incredible amount of free time to do all the things I had meant to "get around to."

The past six years have been mired in my job a lot, but I'll be looking for a new one soon to get back to a 40 hour week.

Still, I haveno plans to start watching again - there's too much else to do.
my, where can you find an attorney job working only 40hr week? going solo? part-time?
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post #11 of 14
12/15/09 at 6:19am
Procrastinator's Creed

Just do exactly the opposite of what it says.
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post #12 of 14
12/15/09 at 7:13am
This thread is definitely one I need to follow.
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post #13 of 14
12/15/09 at 9:13am
I just don't buy into all of this self-help book nonsense. Last October, I spent over $300.00 on books about saving money and budgeting while I was searching for the best pair of IEMs in North America and trying to get an authoritative understanding of the effectiveness and comfort-levels of performance wool socks. I tried thirty brands and 53 "models," and, let me tell you, the Dahlgren Alpaca Mens Hiking Socks, double-plied with real Alpaca fur are beauts! But those budgeting books are all a load of baloney, if you ask me. I'm way in the red with my credit cards. I'm considering selling a kidney. But whatever happens, I'll be wearing those Dahlgren Alpaca Mens Hiking Socks--on the trail or on the operating table, they're the SchizzZ!
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post #14 of 14
12/15/09 at 11:59am
if your on the computer alot, trying to get work done; a good tool is a self timer. I use one for google desktop called Simple Timer, you can drag out couple mins and it counts down, upon 0 gives you a message. You always think some task will take certain amount of time and you chart your day/week on that estimation. The timer can help you figure out how long a task really takes for future reference for estimation and also figuring out why it took longer than expected.
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