If you could save just 24 minutes a day you’d gain an extra 6 days
a year. Some say the world was created in 6 days. What could you
achieve?
You don’t have to work harder or spend hours defining your life
goals in order to manage your time. The Time Master approach is
full of quick painkilling solutions and long-term ‚know-how‘.
This is more than time management, this is time
mastery.
Forget about complicated planning techniques and endless charts
– with over 400 practical tips and tricks at your fingertips,
you’ll be able to tackle your main problem areas and take back
control of your time and your life, quickly. As a Time Master, you
will learn how to slow down and enjoy doing the things you really
want to do.
Master ways to:
* Work out what really needs to be done and when
* Manage emails, your screen time and the telephone
* Run brilliant meetings
* Deal with interruptions
* Stop others stealing your time
* Say no when necessary and manage our boss
* Make time for your health
* And many more …
‚A common sense approach to time management … in an easy to
read format.‘ –Clare Evans, Time Management Coach and author of
Time Management For Dummies
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Introduction 1
What Type of Time Master Are You? 5
Take the Time Master test
The Time Master Truths: 11
Learn to think like a Time Master
What Are Your Time Problems? 30
Identify the aspects of your life where lack of time control is
the cause of most difficulty and pain
1 Master Your Planning 33
2 Master Your Priorities 54
3 Master Your Stuff 60
4 Master Your Procrastination 82
5 Master Your Time Estimates 90
6 Master Your Telephone 94
7 Master Your Email 104
8 Master Your Screen Time 113
9 Master Your Meetings 121
10 Master Your Interruptions 130
11 Master Your Time ieves 139
12 Master the Ability to Say No! 146
13 Master Your Boss 152
14 Master Your Delegation Skills 159
15 Master Your Time-Charging 163
16 Master Your Decision-Making 169
17 Master Your Health 175
18 Don’t Be Time Bored! 179
Time Master Travel Tips 184
Time Master Shopping Tips 189
Time Master Eating Out Tips 192
Time Master Business Tips 194
The Time Master Commandments 198
Index 203
Über den Autor
A former Managing Director of a PR company, Ian Cooper has been a business and personal development consultant and skills presenter in the professional services sector for over 30 years. During this time he has given approximately 5, 000 professional speaking engagements and advised over 800 organisations on communications and personal and business development topics.
Ian is the author of 12 books, the latest being Just Ask for Pearson published in 2007. He is a regular presenter at business seminars, conferences, corporate training events and other general seminars. Ian plans to create a course based around the ‚How to Be a Time Lord‘ concept. At the moment, he runs an Internet web seminar business, which provides live web seminar broadcasts with a database of over 12, 000 professionals and it often attracts audiences of over 500. He has just begun a joint venture to market a programme of seminars to over 4, 000 HR/Personnel departments.