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First Things First, sub-titled To Live, to Love, to Learn, to Leave a Legacy, [2] [3] (1994) is a self-help book written by Stephen Covey, A. Roger Merrill, and Rebecca R. Merrill. It offers a time management approach that, if established as a habit, is intended to help readers achieve "effectiveness" by aligning themselves to "First Things".
Four Thousand Weeks: Time Management for Mortals is a 2021 non-fiction book written by British author Oliver Burkeman. The title draws from the premise that "the average human lifespan is absurdly, terrifyingly, insultingly short... Assuming you live to be eighty, you’ll have had about four thousand weeks."
Time management is the process of planning and exercising conscious control of time spent on specific activities—especially to increase effectiveness, efficiency and productivity. [ 1 ] Time management involves demands relating to work , social life , family , hobbies , personal interests and commitments.
The Franklin Planner is a paper-based time management system created by Hyrum W. Smith first sold in 1984 by Franklin International Institute, Inc. [1] The planner itself is the paper component of the time management system developed by Smith. Hyrum Smith in turn based many of his ideas from the teachings of Charles Hobbs who utilized a similar ...
Getting Things Done (GTD) is a personal productivity system developed by David Allen and published in a book of the same name. [1] GTD is described as a time management system. [2] Allen states "there is an inverse relationship between things on your mind and those things getting done". [3] [a]
Vanderkam became interested in time management while working as a journalist, when she interviewed accomplished people who juggled busy schedules. [3] In October 2016, she presented a TED talk called "How to gain control of your free time". [4] She has written for Fortune, [5] USA Today, Redbook, The Wall Street Journal, [6] and The New York Times.
The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9–5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich (2007) is a self-help book by Timothy Ferriss, an American writer, educational activist, and entrepreneur. [1] It deals with what Ferriss refers to as "lifestyle design", and repudiates the traditional "deferred" life plan in which people work grueling hours and take few ...
In their book The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques, Pamela Dodd and Doug Sundheim rank Leave the Office Earlier third on their list of "The Best Time Management Books". [9] while The New York Times deemed “the best book of the bunch" of time management books it reviewed in June 2004. [10]