To help you with time management concepts, here is some excellent further reading, from David Berman's personal recommendation list:
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Books
Allen, David, Getting Things Done: The Art of Stress-Free Productivity, Penguin Books, 2003, (ISBN 0142000280)
Blanchard, Kenneth and Spencer Johnson. The One Minute Manager: The Quickest Way To Increase Your Own Prosperity, Berkley Books, 1983 (ISBN 0425098478)
Covey, Stephen R., First Things First, Free Press, 1996 (ISBN 0684802031)
Griessman, B. Eugene, Time Tactics of Very Successful People, McGraw-Hill, 1994 (ISBN 0070246440): practical hints on how to be more efficient - not about scheduling, but how to get more done by being more efficient, and making best use of time.
Mackenzie, R. Alec. The Time Trap: How to Get More Done in Less Time, McGraw-Hill Book Company, 1972 (ISBN 081447926X)
Morgenstern, Julie. Organizing
From the Inside Out, Owl Books,
1998
(ISBN 0805056491): practical
hints on how to organize your space and stuff,
with a solid philosophy to go with it.
Web Sites
www.timeday.org
Site dedicate to Take Back Your Time Day (October 24), "an
initiative to challenge the epidemic of overwork, overscheduling, and time
famine that now threatens our health, our families, our communities, and
our environment.
www.timemanagementforums.com A great site dedicated to user forums about time management.
www.lifehack.org Daily digest and pointer on productivity, getting things done and lifehacks
www.deathclock.com A reality check on how much time you likely have.
www.authentichappiness.org Take
a free test to identify your signature strengths.
Articles
What To Do While On Hold by Chuck Martin
Seminars
Effective Time Management for
Professionals: Designing Your Life. For more
information on our course on time management, please
visit our course page .
Tools
Get a voice recorder (or a PDA that runs a voice recorder program): In
order to never miss an idea or commitment, buy a small digital voice recorder
and carry it with you always. Get one with at least two folders. Whenever
you have an idea or need to record information when you TimeTo™
is not available, store it in the voice recorder. Then, make it part of
your daily regimen to transfer the messages to your TimeTo™ once
a day. If you are pressed for time on a give day, it will suffice to listen
to the messages to make sure nothing is urgent (and clear up at least
a minute of time on the recorder so that you have space for more messages).
To cut the amount of time required for this daily check, record messages
with a deadline in one folder on the voice recorder and messages without
a deadline in another folder: then if you are in a hurry during your daily
check you only need check the deadline folder's messages. The Sony
recorders historically have the best ergonomics
for the kind of activity mentioned. If you want to
get fancier, get a unit that is bundled with voice recognition software.
Quotes
"Time is a pretty exact measure of alienation. In France's Revolution, people across Paris began to shoot at public clocks." -John Zernan
"The child's days escape adult time: their time is swollen by subjectivity, passion, dreams haunted by reality. Outside, the educators look on, waiting, watch in hand, till the child joins and fits the cycle of the hours." -Raoul Vaneigem
"Our idea of time seems to be a natural attribute of the human mind. But that is a delusion. Such an idea scarcely exists where primitive mentality is concerned." -Lucien Levy-Bruhl
"Only a man who lives not in time but in the present is happy." -Ludwig Wittgenstein
"Being rich is having money; being wealthy is having time." - Stephen Swid
"Life is what happens while you are busy making other plans." - John Lennon
"If you win the rat race, you're still a rat. - Anna Quindlen's father
"No one ever said on their deathbed I wish I'd spent more time in the office." - unknown
"Man plans and God laughs." - Yiddish proverb
"I don't need time. I need a deadline." - Duke Ellington
"Pausing is the in-between step. It lies in between our old ways and our new ways." - Laura Divine & Joanne Hunt
"Finding a way to live the simple life is one of life's supreme complications." - T.S. Elliot
"I've missed over 9,000 shots in my career, I've lost over 300 games, 26 times I've been trusted to take the game-winning shot and missed. I've failed over and over again in my life -- and that is why I succeed." - Michael Jordan
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