The Power of Doing Less Why Time Management

A bright, subversive self-help book that asks a lot of interesting questions about life and work and provides even more interesting answers Remember the good old days of leisure time and guaranteed pension benefits-when working a nine-to-five job meant working from 9:00 AM to 5:00 PM, with an hour lunch break? For those of us old enough to have lived in those halcyon days, the days before work burnout, sixty-plus hour work weeks and chronic fears of having our jobs outsourced, it all seems like a distant dream. What if you could recapture the feeling of control, ease and security of those days, and again become your own man or woman? Well, you can, and this book shows you how. Covers overload and burn out, maintaining work/life balance, the philosophy of action, decision making, work-sharing and the social implications of toiling 'til you drop Makes a powerful case that learning when and how to say no is the life skill you need the most in life Packed with practical tips on how to get more from less, manage your time better and separate the work that works from the work that hurts Full of entertaining quotes, revolutionary ideas, fun illustrations and disturbing statistics that will have you questioning the status quo in new ways

The Sunday Business Post has described Fergus O'Connell as having 'more strings to his bow than a Stradivarius'.
Fergus has a First in Mathematical Physics from University College Cork and is one of the world's leading authorities on project management. His company — ETP (www.etpint.com) - and his project management method — Structured Project Management / The Ten Steps — have influenced a generation of project managers. In 2003 this method was used to plan and execute the Special Olympics World Games, the world's biggest sporting event that year. Fergus's experience covers projects around the world; he has taught project management in Europe, North America, South America and Asia. He holds two patents.
Fergus is the author of twelve business books. The first of these, How to Run Successful Projects: The Silver Bullet, has become both a bestseller and a classic and has been constantly in print for over twenty years. His book on common sense entitled Simply Brilliant — also a bestseller and now in its fourth edition — was runner-up in the W H Smith Book Awards 2002. His books have been translated into twenty languages.

TO THE HESITATING PURCHASER viii

OVERLOADED? I’LL BET YOU ARE x

MAYBE IT’S TIME FOR A CHANGE xiv

1 THIS PROBLEM IS REALLY SERIOUS 1

2 WHY TIME MANAGEMENT COURSES DON’T WORK 13

3 YOU WILL NEVER GET EVERYTHING DONE 25

4 KNOWING WHAT THE “RIGHT STUFF” IS 41

5 FILTER ONE: TO DO OR NOT TO DO 63

6 FILTER TWO: DOING IT ON YOUR TERMS 89

7 DON’T FEEL GUILTY 105

8 IT’S ABOUT GOOD HABITS 121

9 THE HARVEST 133

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The Power of Doing Less Why Time Management Courses Don't Work And How To Spend Your Precious Life On The Things That Really Matter

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