Synopses & Reviews
A bright, subversive self-help book that asks a lot of interesting questions about life and work and provides even more interesting answersRemember 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
Synopsis
Overloaded? I’ll bet you are.
We all lead busy lives. You fall into bed exhausted at the end of the day, feeling that you’ve got a lot done. Perhaps you
are getting lots done.
But is it stuff that really matters? Or is it just stuff?
It’s time to wise up. You will never clear that list.
Get used to the idea that some things will never get done. Not delayed. Not rescheduled. Not re-prioritized. But simply dropped.
And from now on, instead of trying to clear that endless to-do list, you’re going to do a much smarter thing. You’re going to just do the important stuff.
And the brilliant thing is, you already have the power to do this.
That power is to do less.
Soon enough, you’ll have the space to enjoy the moment, be creative, find new or better ways of doing things, get ideas, and spot opportunities you would have missed when you were running around.
In short – you’ll be happier. Much happier.
As soon as you stop doing, the power of doing less will begin to flow.
Table of Contents
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