Who Stole My Time: 12 Super Easy Time Management Tips

By Gene Beasley

Ever feel as though the time is constantly slipping through your fingers, but you suspect the cause is not so much a mystery of supernatural proportions but perhaps... somewhat within your control?

The truth is, there are four major suspects when it comes to the crime of stealing your time; escapism, needless waiting, pretend progress, and half-justified excuses. But, unlike most crime cases, we are not here looking for the one suspect that truly committed the crime. In fact, we know that each and every one of those suspects commit the crime of wasting your time every day. Yet, if you really want to point the finger, if you really want to be specific about who to blame... you need only look to yourself.

That's the bad news; you are responsible for time mis-management. The good news, however, is that you are an unwilling felon. How do we know this, you ask? Because you are reading this blurb in preparation of buying this book. If you did not consider buying this book and hence reading this blurb, it might be that you truly do enjoy letting time slip away while productivity, goals, and dreams pour down the drain along with it. But, that's just not you.

So, since you are the unwilling evildoer and are plotting to manage your time, save your time, and create a more bountiful life with the time you gain... then you have at last found your secret weapon. Within this book are many clever strategies, mind tricks, and fox-like contrivances to cheating the clockwork time gods of the time they day-to-day gnaw away, and even outsmart your own natural time-wasting rhythms – making them serve you rather than run amok all over your life. Read this book and you won't have the luxury of mindlessly wasting your time again, nor will you be willing to accept the excuses you invent to procrastinate and waste your time. Take your life back by taking your time back, learn how in Who Stole My Time.

• Language: English
• Publisher: justhappyforever.com
• Release date: Dec 17, 2017
• ISBN: 9781386754657

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Who Stole My Time: 12 Super Easy Time Management Tips

Gene Beasley

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Gene Beasley

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Table of Contents

Chapter One:  The Main Suspects

Chapter Two: Self Evaluation

Chapter Three: Learning Where To Put Your Time

Set Goals That Work

How to Prioritize Effectively

Build Domino Reactions

Chapter Four: Taking Time Back From Your Environment

Declutter Your Life

Manage Your Environment

Minimize Distractions

Chapter Five: Taking Time Back From Your Job

Create a Workspace Oasis (of time)

Have Better Meetings

Recognize the Time Leeches

Chapter Six: Taking Time Back From Yourself

Learn Your Rhythms

Consolidate Routines

Tame Your Technology

Chapter Seven: Bring It All Together

Chapter One:  The Main Suspects

Escapism

Generally speaking, there is nothing wrong with escapism. For many people, the desire to melt away from reality for a duration of time – whether that be in a book, or a movie, or general TV browsing and other activities – is a great way of relaxing, passing time, and having fun. It is not escapism as a concept that we chastise here but rather when it grows into becoming a needless time waster. It was once said that 'The time you enjoy wasting is not time wasted at all". That is certainly the case, you can't always be running about busy and occupied – you have to have time for time wasting. But, that's just the thing. We are trying to conquer true time wastage. The time you don't enjoy wasting but end up wasting anyway. The time wasting that gets in the way of success, further wealth, and the pursuit of happiness.

One of the most famous ways that escapism becomes a time waster is when we opt to browse TV or the internet aimlessly for hours at a time. What is achieved at the end of it? Nothing, or very little. So, why do we do it? Because it gives our mind a sense of purpose and a feeling of being occupied even without actually serving us with something productive. Manage to limit your escapism to when you want to escape and not when you are running from your responsibilities and higher calling and you will have not only gained precious time with which you can grow and become more successful, but you will also slowly gear your mind toward