Review: Well Worth my Time and Money!
Rating: 5 out of 5
Date: 07 5, 2013
Okay, so I picked this up because my time management skills are a mess (maybe I should spent less time reading, lol)! I only managed to get through Grad School by making a daily list and then doing my best to get everything done before I collapsed from exhaustion at the end of the day. I rarely succeeded. So it was in the spirit of ″Help Me!″ that I downloaded this ebook. And I'm really glad I did! It was obvious just by how the book is structured that Michael is a very organized person. The book starts out with quotations about time management from a variety of sources, from Stephen Covey to Hugh Jackman. Michael then offers incisive analysis from his own experience before moving to the meat of showing you how to get a better handle on your time.While the entire book was full of excellent insight and tips for time management, I found chapter 11 (Time Saving Tips) especially helpful. The first tip, ″listen to what is being said″ seems obvious, but it's actually easy to forget, especially when you are feeling stressed out. For example, I was seeing a movie with a friend and because I was stressing about getting the appointment into my calendar, I ended up hearing and writing in the wrong time, making myself a half hour late for our meeting. Thankfully we live in a time of cell-phones, but I was still late, and that meant that we missed the first five minutes of the movie. Worse, the stress of being late, making my friend late, and having to rush really put a pallor on the whole experience. Now I'm taking the time to listen carefully, so as to save myself time and stress in the long run. The rest of the chapter also is really helping me streamline my life.In short, this book is well organized, clearly written, and offers a ton of useful information about how to manage your time. Well worth my time and money :)