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Every Busy Person Can Use—Now!
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ISBN-13: 978-1-59869-765-0
ISBN-10: 1-59869-765-X
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• Distinguish between the 
important and the urgent
• Say “No” and avoid time-
wasting tasks
• Delegate for greater productivity
• Communicate more effectively
• Understand the many time-
management software programs 
available
• Cope with stress
Critical
Skills for 
Your
Business
Richard Walsh
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 Set Priorities
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 Schedule for Maximum Productivity
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 Avoid Time-Wasters 
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Proven Techniques for  
Making Every Minute Count

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Document Outline

• Book Title
• Copyright
• Contents
• Introduction
• Chapter 1: Is Time Out Of Control?
  • Riding the Adrenaline High
  • Simple Symptoms and Scary Consequences of Hurry Sickness
  • Reports of the “Death of Work” Premature
  • We Have Seen the Enemy, and It Is Us
  • Just What Is Time, Anyway?
• Chapter 2: Are You Really As Busy As You Think?
  • How We’re Really Spending Our Time
  • Super-Size My Day
  • Logging Your Time
• Chapter 3: Busy Or Productive?
  • The Need for Busywork
  • Are You Guilty?
  • Avoiding Busywork
• Chapter 4: Can You Really Manage Time?
  • Can You Change?
  • Just What Can You Do about the Time Crunch?
  • Limits to the Traditional Time Management Approach
  • So That’s Where the Time Really Goes!
  • Some Initial Changes to Get Control of Your Time
• Chapter 5: Use The To-Do List Effectively
  • The To-Do List from Hell
  • The Day as You Really Live It
  • Suggestions for Creating a Healthy To-Do List
• Chapter 6: Get Started
  • Jump-Start Each Work Session
  • Eight Ways to Get a Fast Start
• Chapter 7: Is Your Life A Constant Come-From-Behind Rally?
  • Call a Time Out
  • Taking Mini-Vacations Every Day
  • Seven Ways to Go on Vacation Without Leaving Your Desk
  • Why the Two-Minute Break Works
  • Free 21-Day Satisfaction-Guaranteed Tension Trial
• Chapter 8: Get Organized
  • Recognize the Reality
  • Capture the Tasks
  • Define
  • Prioritize
  • Schedule
  • Evaluation
• Chapter 9: Is It Really Important—or Merely Urgent?
  • The Dilemma of the Ringing Telephone
  • Is It Important or Merely Urgent?
  • The Secret of Time Management Revealed: Why We Waste Time on Trivia and Don’t Spend Enough Time on Essentials
  • Asking the “Want To/Have To” Question
  • Knowing When Time Isn’t Really the Problem
  • Why You’ll Never Be Able to “find” Time
• Chapter 10: Ways To Avoid Time Traps
  • The One-on-One Meeting
  • What’s Wrong with “Buzz Off”?
  • What about That Old Standby, “No”?
  • The Golden Rule Applied to Three Little Words
  • The Group Meeting
  • Maximize Your Meeting Productivity
• Chapter 11: Seven Time Management Tips For Managers
  • 1. Never Waste Their Time
  • 2. Make Sure the Time Savers Are Really Saving Time
  • 3. Separate the Important from the Merely Urgent for Your Staff
  • 4. Tell Them Why
  • 5. Allow Them Enough Time for the Task
  • 6. Encourage Them to Do One Thing Well—at a Time
  • 7. Have Productive Staff Meetings
• Chapter 12: Learning To Say “No”
  • Why We May Have Trouble Saying “No”
  • Why All That “Yes” Sneaks Up on You
  • How Many Jobs Do You Have?
  • A Qualitative Method for Computing the Cost of Your Commitments
  • Another Subjective Method for Trimming the Activity List
  • The “Something’s Got to Give” Theory
  • Heartless or Practical?
  • How to Say “No”
• Chapter 13: Communications
  • Tips for Writing It Right—and Fast—the First Time
  • A Cautionary Note About Editing
  • A Few Cautions About Instant Writing
• Chapter 14: How To Control Paper Flow
  • 10 Ways to Reduce, Control, and Eliminate Paper
• Chapter 15: Turn Downtime Into Productive Time
  • Why Don’t Adults Get Bored?
  • The Wrong Way to Do Away with Waiting
  • One Way to Eliminate Some of the Waiting
  • Make The Wait Matter Less
  • You’ll Always Have to Wait
  • How to Use the Wait Time: Three Steps That Will Make You More Productive and Less Stressed
  • Results of Turning the Wait into a Rest
• Chapter 16: Procrastination
  • Six Reasons Why We Procrastinate and Six Strategies to Put Off Putting Off
  • The Magic Bullet for Procrastination
• Chapter 17: Time Management For Students
  • Principles of Time Management for Students
• Chapter 18: Time Management For Project Management
  • Where to Start
  • Building a Project Framework
  • Task Allocation
  • Time Estimating
  • Managing the Project
  • Quality Control
  • Summary
• Chapter 19: Time Management Software
  • The Future Is Here
  • Project Management Software
  • Information Capture, Sharing, and Development Software
  • Collaboration Software
  • Personal Organization Software and To-Do List Managers
• Chapter 20: Just Don’t Do It!
  • How to Eliminate Unnecessary Steps
  • Two More Forms of Unnecessary Work—Busy Work and Work Avoidance Work
  • The “Not-To-Do” List and the “Let Others Do It” List
  • Delegating, Swapping, and Letting Go
  • Do It Now, Do It Later, or Do It Never
  • Peeling Off the Layers of Perfection: The “Good Enough” Tenet of Time Management
• Chapter 21: Whose Drum Do You March To?
  • Learn to Keep Time to Your Own Rhythms
  • What Would You Do if You Could Do Whatever You Wanted To?
  • So, What Can You Do about It?
  • How To Find Your Rhythm
• Chapter 22: Are You Getting Enough Sleep?
  • How Much Sleep Is Enough, Anyway?
  • The “Normal” Sleep Cycle
  • So, What Should You Do about Sleeping?
  • Six Steps for Getting a Good Night’s Sleep
  • If Sleeplessness Persists
  • Is It a Problem or Just a Pattern?
• Chapter 23: The War On Stress
  • The Parable of the Mice in the Refrigerator
  • The Fun Stuff Is Also Stressful
  • The Bozo Factor
  • Stress Happens
  • Being Blessedly Stressed
  • Three Great Lies of Our Age
  • The Fundamental Truth about Stress
  • How You Can Reduce Your Stress Levels
• Chapter 24: Don’t Let Worry Rob You Of Time And Energy
  • Three Ways to Worry
  • Measuring the Worth of Worry
  • Ten Ways to Get Rid of Your Worries
  • The Five Faces of Worry
  • What to Do When It’s More Than Worry
• Chapter 25: Make Time To Think
  • Why You Shut Yourself Off From Your Good Ideas
  • Welcoming the Ah-Ha!
  • Creating the Ah-Ha on Demand
  • New Age? Nonsense
• Chapter 26: Create A Values-Based Time Management Plan
  • Does the Way You Spend Your Time Truly Reflect Your Values?
  • Are You Mistaken about Your Priorities?
  • Why Aren’t You Spending Time on the Important Stuff?
  • Live a Values-Centered Life
• Index