Take Back Your Time: How to Regain Control of Work, Information, and Technology

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Summary: Control your life as well as your time!
Review: "Take Back Your Time" is an intelligent, easy-to-read, and helpful book for getting "unstuck". I had been stymied by the number of things on my "to-do" list -- important personal pet projects, desires to change old habits, business development ideas -- and Jasper's book provided the keen insight I needed to begin to dislodge my inertia! Jasper also made me aware that organizational skills do not equal efficient working skills -- a crucial distinction. I had check marks and notations on many of the pages of the book. I plan to lend it to my business partner, whose desk is one giant "In Box"!

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Summary: Work With Technology Instead of Against It
Review: I highly recommend this book because it really helped clarify what I thought was important vs. what I thought I was suppose to do. Ms Jasper has an excellent way of showing you just how to save time and in an easy to understand way. It is as though she is next to you guiding you along the way. This book really helps you organize what's really important and has a way of freeing you from all the other Stuff.... Ms. Jasper, thank you.

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Summary: Definitely a book worth the Time to Read!
Review: I highly recommend this book because it really helped clarify what I thought was important vs. what I thought I was suppose to do. Ms Jasper has an excellent way of showing you just how to save time and in an easy to understand way. It is as though she is next to you guiding you along the way. This book really helps you organize what's really important and has a way of freeing you from all the other Stuff.... Ms. Jasper, thank you.

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Summary: Alex Lubarsky
Review: I think that it is very funny that our lives have become so complicated that we need a book to teach us how to simplify it, but need it we do. Jan Jasper has put together what seemed like a million simple ideas on how to get through all the stuff that screems for our attention. To accomplish more, to enjoy our life more, to do the things that are important to us, we must purge all the time wasters. "Take back your time" gave me a view from a different angle so that I can make a choice on what to keep and what to purge. I am glad I bought it! P.S. For me "Think and grow rich", How to win friends, and influence people", The majic of thinking Big" are five star books. "Take back your time" is a strong four.

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Summary: Alex Lubarsky
Review: I think that it is very funny that our lives have become so complicated that we need a book to teach us how to simplify it, but need it we do. Jan Jasper has put together what seemed like a million simple ideas on how to get through all the stuff that screems for our attention. To accomplish more, to enjoy our life more, to do the things that are important to us, we must purge all the time wasters. "Take back your time" gave me a view from a different angle so that I can make a choice on what to keep and what to purge. I am glad I bought it! P.S. For me "Think and grow rich", How to win friends, and influence people", The majic of thinking Big" are five star books. "Take back your time" is a strong four.

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Summary: Organize your mind as well as your office.
Review: Jan Jasper's excellent book brought me many new and unexpected insights into the way I organize (or fail to organize) my thoughts and decision-making patterns. She led me to realize that my desk is a direct reflection of my mind and that to become more focused and orderly in one will automatically create a similar result in the other. She inspired me to actually WANT to follow her suggestions.

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Summary: A splendid, extremely useful book
Review: Take Back Your Time is the kind of book that everyone on the planet should read. We're all running around like maniacs most of the time, desperate to get an endless amount of mostly useless things accomplished. Jasper tells how to separate the wheat from the chaff and focus on what's really important. Her suggestions are sensible, intelligent, creative. My husband and I have both read the book and are now trying to apply all the helpful ideas to our lives.

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Summary: SUPER BOOK for the 2000's
Review: This book does a great job focusing on today's concerns for people of the 2000's, especially urban-dwelling, business-types, with limited time, limited space, and a desire to prioritize their work and home environments. The practical, incremental solutions Ms. Jasper offers are things a reader can implement immediately. I've read this book twice already and intend to re-read it periodically to check-up on my progress in reducing stress and organizing my business and personal time. In the new e-world filled with 'Self-Help' books (and I've read a lot of them...) this is a fresh approach with current ideas. GREAT BOOK !!

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Summary: The best investment I made this month!
Review: This is a rare treat. The book actually delivers what it promises. For those of us who find ourselves overwhelmed with daily clutter and are fighting an uphill battle to keep ahead of our increasingly formidable schedules, we are finally offered a workable set of solutions. If you follow the suggestions offered by Ms. Jasper there will come a point where you suddenly realize your life is not an accelerating treadmill. There is a real benefit to a publication which offers attainable goals and a real template for success.

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Summary: Terrific synthesis of literature and practical experience
Review: This is a terrific synthesis of the best time-management literature and Ms. Jasper's substantial practical experience working one-on-one with clients. What sets the book apart from others in the field is its emphasis on usefulness. Jasper outlines what works, and what does not work, and explains why. After reading her book, I felt like I was able to make my own, informed decisions about managing my time, papers, and belongings. Also, because Jasper isn't selling a line of time-management products her recommendations and insights are not colored by any hidden agenda. The book is well researched, well organized, and well written, and includes a substantial bibliography and a useable index. If you are looking for the one time-management book to buy, for home or office, this is the one.