What To Do When There's Too Much To Do: Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day
Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day
Published on 2. July 2012
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192 pages
978-1-60994-539-8 (ISBN)
Description
Employees know they are lucky enough to have a job in this economy and are working longer hours just to stay employed. Yet studies have repeatedly shown that long workweeks result in a decrease in productivity.
For over 20 years, Laura Stack has been teaching professionals how to transform their ever-expanding to-do lists into a functional, workable system. What To Do When There's Too Much To Do teaches you how to actually do less and achieve more; Stack describes her comprehensive approach that organises life around the tasks that really matter, and shows it's okay to let go of the ones that don't.
Stack details her step-by-step strategy that has transformed the lives of her clients by saving them 90 minutes a day, including how to:
- Determine what to do and schedule time to do it
- Track down time wasters
- Learn to say no and make it stick
- Rescue your time from meetings
- Handle external and internal distractions
- Reduce inefficiencies and break bottlenecks
- Manage your personal energy and make yourself happier
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Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 a Minutes Day
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What To Do When There's Too Much To Do
Reduce Tasks, Increase Results, and Save 90 Minutes a Day
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Content
Introduction: The Case for Reduction
Saving Our Own Lives
Harsh Realities
The Solution
Brand-New Model: The Productivity Workflow Formula
Step One: Determine What To Do
Why Do You Have So Much to Do?
What Is Your Productive Value?
Tracking Down Time-Wasters
Where Does Your Time Go?
To-Do Lists: Tracking What's Left
Triage: Wartime Prioritization
Summary: PWF Step 1 Checkup
Step Two: Schedule Time to Do It
About that 4-Hour Workweek Idea
Scheduling 101
Further Reducing Your Commitments
Learn to Say No--And Make it Stick
Rescuing Your Time from Meetings
In the Decision Comes the Dilemma
Summary: PWF Step 2 Checkup
Step Three: Focus Your Attention
Driven to Distraction
Handling External Distractions
Heading Off Internal Distractions
Slipping the Electronic Leash
Focus Aids
The Zen of Avoiding Distraction
Summary: PWF Step 3 Checkup
Step Four: Process New Information
Taming the Information Glut
Filing Precepts
Your Personal Time Management System
Basic Information Handling
The 6-D Information Management System
The E-mail Decision Tree
Summary: PWF Step 4 Checkup
Step Five: Close the Loop
Organized Implementation
The People Problem
Handling Micromanagers
Reducing Inefficiencies and Breaking Bottlenecks
The Quest for Constant Improvement
Continued Progress Requires Constant Reevaluation
Summary: PWF Step 4 Checkup
Step Six: Manage Your Capacity
Personal Energy
Get Some Sleep
Watch Your Diet
Exercise Your Body
Make Yourself Happier
Maintaining Your Energetic Edge
Summary: PWF Step 6 Checkup
A Final Note: An Extra Hour--Or More
The Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) Self-Assessment
Notes
Index
About the Author
Saving Our Own Lives
Harsh Realities
The Solution
Brand-New Model: The Productivity Workflow Formula
Step One: Determine What To Do
Why Do You Have So Much to Do?
What Is Your Productive Value?
Tracking Down Time-Wasters
Where Does Your Time Go?
To-Do Lists: Tracking What's Left
Triage: Wartime Prioritization
Summary: PWF Step 1 Checkup
Step Two: Schedule Time to Do It
About that 4-Hour Workweek Idea
Scheduling 101
Further Reducing Your Commitments
Learn to Say No--And Make it Stick
Rescuing Your Time from Meetings
In the Decision Comes the Dilemma
Summary: PWF Step 2 Checkup
Step Three: Focus Your Attention
Driven to Distraction
Handling External Distractions
Heading Off Internal Distractions
Slipping the Electronic Leash
Focus Aids
The Zen of Avoiding Distraction
Summary: PWF Step 3 Checkup
Step Four: Process New Information
Taming the Information Glut
Filing Precepts
Your Personal Time Management System
Basic Information Handling
The 6-D Information Management System
The E-mail Decision Tree
Summary: PWF Step 4 Checkup
Step Five: Close the Loop
Organized Implementation
The People Problem
Handling Micromanagers
Reducing Inefficiencies and Breaking Bottlenecks
The Quest for Constant Improvement
Continued Progress Requires Constant Reevaluation
Summary: PWF Step 4 Checkup
Step Six: Manage Your Capacity
Personal Energy
Get Some Sleep
Watch Your Diet
Exercise Your Body
Make Yourself Happier
Maintaining Your Energetic Edge
Summary: PWF Step 6 Checkup
A Final Note: An Extra Hour--Or More
The Productivity Workflow Formula (PWF) Self-Assessment
Notes
Index
About the Author