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How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life (Paperback)
by Alan Lakein
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Time management, Self help, Original books |
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A super life-changer: in this book Alan Lakein gives you the gift of a lifetime - he shows you, step by step, how to use your time to live your dream. Seize the day and, grab this book! |
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Author: Alan Lakein
Publisher: Signet
Pub. in: February, 1989
ISBN: 0451167724
Pages: 160
Measurements: 7.1 x 4.2 x 0.4 inches
Origin of product: USA
Order code: BA00978
Other information: Reissue edition
ISBN-13: 978-0451167729
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It is the representative work of "the father of time management" Alan Lakein, with over 3 million books sold. |
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How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life is, perhaps, the best book on time management ever written. It does not waste your time but gets right to the point. You must establish SMART (specific, measurable, achieveable, related/relevant, and time framed) goals for yourself and then prioritize them using Lakein's A/C system. "A" goals are the most important to you and you must plan on spending 80% of your time to achieve them. "C" goals (TV, lawn care, shopping, etc.) are the place where most people "waste" their lives and spend 80% of their time. This ratio must be reversed, according to Lakein.
He would agree with E.E. Cummings that "To be nobody but yourself in a world that is night and day trying to make you just like everybody else means to fight the hardest fight any human being can fight, and never stop fighting." Once we have set goals that utilize our unique talents and abilities, we will have the will power and determination to do the work necessary to achieve them.
To accomplish our goals Lakein recommends that we make a daily "to do" list and always start with "A's," not "C's." Most of our time is spent working harder on things that don't matter. We may be efficient, but Lakein suggests that our goal is to do what matters most and become effective. "Work smarter, not harder" is the mantra he wants us to repeat and couple that saying with his last piece of advice -"Do it now."
Stick your finger into this small book and any page you hit will have wise words to put into action. Learning comes from daily practice and developing habits that "put first things first," taken from Stephen Covey's best seller, The Seven Habits of Highly Effective People - also recommended is Covey's fine book on effective living appropriately titled First Things First.
Rarely has a book that costs so little paid such rich dividends. You won't be disappointed.
- From quoting Russell Fanelli
Target readers:
General readers
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Alan Lakein, the father of time management, is a worldleading expert on personal time management. A Harvard MBA, his management films have won eight festivals and are best-selling training films. His time management book called How to get control of your time and your life sold in over 3 millions copies, and young Bill Clinton was one of the readers. Lately he has been teaching time management course at Rushmore, since 2004.
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A famous expert reveals his professional secrets. Learn how to build your willpower, how to waste time for pleasure and profit, and how to work smarter, not harder. A practical nononsense guide to managing your personal and business time.
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A reader (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-09 00:00>
When I got the book, I was somewhat sceptical that a book could teach me what I already knew. (Make lists of to-do items etc) But this book is really amazing. It will tell you how you end up wasting time and what to do about it in a positive way. I would like to mention a couple of ideas that I found in this book: a) No matter how silly, do something related to work with a high pay-off. b)Effectiveness (doing the important things) should be preferred over efficiency (Doing something of not much importance very well)...
I read this book every week and have got an additional copy to carry in my bag always to get these excellent ideas entrenched in my head. |
A reader (MSL), Taiwan
<2007-05-09 00:00>
I believe that it is very hard to find a book which is more important than this book. This book is a must for anyone in any field who wants to achieve much more than s/he did before reading it. It may be not but is very close to the bible of time and life management. Being too far away from ideas inside this book, you will be very hard to achieve anything in your life. The time you read it will be paid off several times. Its ideas are worth reviewing several times. |
Simon (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-09 00:00>
When Alan Laiken wrote this book in 1973 he created a mechanism for defining your goals that I still use today. The method of asking "Laikens questions" has been a critical part of my personal success. I have given away perhaps 50 copies of the book over the last 25 years. It is timeless classic on career and time management.
I recently reread the book with my daughter who is just getting her career going and found the techniques Laikin created 33 years ago still work for me in retirement. |
D. Gapkalov (MSL quote), USA
<2007-05-09 00:00>
Changed my life tremendously... I wish I have read it fifteen years ago. I will not be too far fetched if I recommend this book to be used as a "must read" in colleges. Very easy to understand and right to the point, gives you simple tools to increase your productivity ten-fold, focus on the right goals and kill procrastination.
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