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This book is the result of twenty or more years interfacing with thousands of students, salespeople, managers and CEOs. I worked with them, visited with them, asked questions, heard their views. Often the subject was time management.
The managers and CEOs wanted me to propose ideas about working harder and producing more.
The students and salespeople wanted help finding more time for “the life part of life.” This recent story from the Associated press captures that idea.
The upshot is that people who value money and image and success are actually less happy,” says Tim Kasser, a psychologist at Knox College in Galesburg, Illinois, who has researched the phenomenon.
He says they often reported being less satisfied with life and are more likely to experience depression, anxiety and such physical symptoms as back aches and headaches.”
This is a Short Book for Folks Who Don’t Have Time To Read A Long Book!
It has been revised several times. It has become a colloquial synthesis of ideas about time management. It extends the idea that time is an illusion. As H.L. Mencken put it, “We are here and it is now. Further than that, all knowledge is moonshine.”
Originally, when I discussed the question of time management in meetings or workshops, I tried to illustrate the concept that you didn’t manage time ... rather you manage URGENCY ... PRIORITIES ... PURPOSE and VALUE. Time is a snapshot. It is “now”! But an academic discussion of time puts people to sleep. They want a fast answer.
I added the illustration of The Moment of Impact ... when you had a trout on the line and you were totally focused on that moment. That woke a few folks up even if they didn’t fish. They caught the idea.
Ken Greenwood