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Summary: down to earth practical. plenty of ideas
Review: a little something for everybody. management, homemaker, student, spouse. start maneging your time and be productive. get stuff done. pretty ingenius system. you'll enjoy the book or the tape.
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Summary: Organization that Lasts
Review: As someone with life-long organizational problems, due in part to attention deficit disorder, I have read almost every organizational book out there. This is the first book that gave me hope that my life could really be better. Rather than taking the approach that most books take of giving you a list of the same old tips, this book gets to the heart of your organizational problems. It works with each person, helping you organize in a way that best fits your individual personality and needs, and then gives you step-by-step instructions on how to get and stay organized.
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Summary: The author has taken the mystery out of time management
Review: From the onset, Time Management from the Inside Out identifies time as a tangible thing with boundaries and borders. Readers are introduced to the errors and psychological obstacles of time management, and then provided with the tools for effectively managing the hours in their day. Defining time as an a mathematical equation, Ms. Morgenstern states the problem and then provides the solution using her 5-step SPACE system of organizing. As she explains in her introduction, "each day is simply a container, a storage unit that has a definite capacity you can reach". The author has taken the mystery out of time management, giving us the tools we need to effectively overcome our procrastination, perfectionism, and the inability to delegate. Don't put off getting organized another day!
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Summary: Excellent Book ...
Review: I am only half-way through and yet I can tell you, it's an execellent book. It's directly to the point and practical ...
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Summary: Worthwhile but not life changing
Review: I bought the CD audiobook edition. It has the same info as the print edition to the best of my knowledge. I read her book, Organizing From the Inside Out, first. I am still reaping the benefits of a much better organized workspace several months later. The same ideas are retrofitted to deal with time management. I found the book worthwhile because it gives a fresh perspective on time management by borrowing ideas from organizing principles. But they are separate challenges. Some ideas from the book are likely to have a positive impact, but not the transformational impact that can be achieved from the other book. So, expect about as much from this as the other decent books on time management, no more, no less.
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Summary: Worthwhile but not life changing
Review: I bought this CD audiobook edition. I read her book, Organizing From the Inside Out, first. I am still reaping the benefits of a much better organized workspace several months later. The same ideas are retrofitted to deal with time management. I found the book worthwhile because it gives a fresh perspective on time management by borrowing ideas from organizing principles. But they are separate challenges. Some ideas from the book are likely to have a positive impact, but not the transformational impact that can be achieved from the other book. So, expect about as much from this as the other decent books on time management, no more, no less.
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Summary: Make Sense of Your Schedule, Achieve Your Goals
Review: I found Julie Morgenstern's first book, Organizing from the Inside Out, so helpful, that I was happy to buy this one (and this from someone who rarely buys books when I can just check them out of the library--I never actually bought the first book!). It uses the exact same principals as the first book, only geared towards time management. The principals are organized and logical, and really help you make sense of your schedule. And it will help you create a schedule that will help you achieve your goals and achieve balance in your life. She covers time management briefly in the first book. (In fact, she highly recommended using a planner and so I bought one and have found it extremely helpful). Here she gets into more detail, and I found the extra detail on how to create a time map especially helpful. I am working on my own time map now. It's too early to say that I have mastered time management (it does take time, after all). But I am starting to feel a sense of control over my time and space and that is more valuable than I had previously realized. She recommends reading the first book first, because working with the space in your home is more tangible than working with time. I agree.
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Summary: Repetitive sections, not very instructive
Review: I found this book a lot less helpful than her first book- Organizing from the Inside Out. That was a great book.
This book, however, was not that helpful to me. I read the whole thing in about one hour because I could skim most of the sections which repeated or paraphrased previous ideas. I think there were some excellent ideas in the book- maybe 8 key points that could have been summarized in an article or very short piece. She provided some questions that were helpful (such as "do you like to work on a tight deadline?"; "do you like to work with music on?"; do you prefer to work by yourself," but she left the reader hanging-did not help to use the answers to determine time management preferenecs. What are ways that one should manage time if you prefer working alone as opposed to working with others? Lots of questions went unanswered and information provided was mostly common sense. The book fell into the category of descriptive (providing the usual mantra) rather than instructive.
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Summary: An excellent resouce
Review: I found this book far more helpful and more practical than I ever expected it to be. We all know organization can make all the difference and this woman is an organizing wonder. This is on my most recommended list for 2001 along with Barry Maher's "Filling the Glass," Stephen Covey's "Seven Habits of Highly Effective People" (still worth reading after all these years) and the wonderful "Shakelton's Way," the "Into Thin Air" (another great book) of business books.
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Summary: Confusing Book
Review: I had high hopes for gaining some clear techniques on time management from this book. However, I found it extremely confusing once I got to the Time Mapping section. The segments (activities, goals) melded into each other and I found Morgenstern's explanations less than clear as to what exactly to do. I consider myself fairly intelligent but she lost me. I did find value in identifying major life categories and big picture goal - but again - that entire section of the book that explained how to utilize that information was confusing. I went to her website to try to gain some insight and found going through message boards that it seemed as though many people who logged in were also still struggling. I have to say I'm disappointed as well as out $15.00.
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