2024: The Year of Mindful Time Management
TLDR: if you’re at a corporate and have time management on your mind, you can book me for a talk early in 2024. I have a pretty busy day job (as CEO of Filtered) so availability is limited. DM me and I'll put you in touch with Penguin Random House to make a booking.
You want to get the most from and do the most for your most critical asset: your people. To help set them up for success through 2024 and beyond. But as the year starts, priorities shift and those major goals so often fall by the wayside.?
You want your people to be healthy — physically and mentally. Yet we all live and work at the beck and call of countless demands, online and offline, at home and work. So many of us are inundated and overwhelmed and aren’t able to find the space and time to look after ourselves properly.
You want your people to shape their own career arcs. You want them to have the freedom to seize on opportunities, including the startling technological developments of our time. But important, life-changing intentions give way to non-stop, urgent requests.??
There is a simple answer for all this. This answer has been inexplicably overlooked in HR practice and self-help literature. This answer reduces stress. It doubles productivity. It enables smarter thinking and states of flow. It helps us to lead the chosen, cherished lives we long for, at home and at work. It provides a flexibility offered by no other method. And we all already do it, to some extent.?
That answer is timeboxing.
Timeboxing is the method and mindset of: selecting what to do, before the day’s distractions arise; specifying each task in a calendar, including when it will start and finish; focusing on one thing at a time; doing each to an acceptable (rather than perfect) standard.
Timeboxing - The Power of Doing One Thing at a Time is the definitive work on this underestimated, overlooked practice. Published by Penguin Random House and launching in January 2024, it has already won over publishers around the globe with translation rights sold in 25 languages. As part of the book launch, I'm offering a talk on mindful time management for corporates. This is an excellent way to start 2024 positively and intentionally, for you and your organisation. The offer includes:
About me, the author
Marc Zao-Sanders is the CEO and co-founder of Filtered Technologies. He writes Filtered’s blog as well as his own weekly newsletter at marczaosanders.com. He has also written for many publications, including Harvard Business Review, Scientific American and Quartz. His 2018 HBR piece on timeboxing, in particular, inspired a TikTok video with over 10 million views. He has adopted and adapted his own method of timeboxing and taught hundreds of others to do so for over a decade.
What bestselling authors have said about the book
Timeboxing can help you get things done, but more importantly, it can help you do more of what you love and less of what you hate. Zao-Sanders will explain to you how timeboxing the stuff you have to do but don’t want to do as well as the things you do want to do will help you get more pleasure and less tedium out of life. As you internalize the lessons of this exceptionally wise book, you’ll begin to feel the presence of a coach who’s there with you every step of the way.’
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— Kim Scott, author of Radical Candor
A masterclass in intentional living. This book on timeboxing is essential for anyone seeking focus in a?distracted world. I’ve long championed the benefits of timeboxing, and Marc’s book brings it to life.
— Nir Eyal, author of Indistractable: How to Control Your Attention and Choose Your Life
For over 30 years, I’ve sought to optimize my work and my life. I thought I had things pretty much figured out. But then I read ‘Timeboxing.’ The impact was immediate and dramatic. My new habit of timeboxing each morning has lifted me to a new level of focus, calm, and productivity.
— BJ Fogg, author of Tiny Habits?
This brilliant book will teach you how to stop trying to do too much, so that you can actually get more done! Bound to become a classic in the productivity literature.
— Dr. Tomas Chamorro-Premuzic, Professor of Business Psychology at UCL & Columbia and author of Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders? (And How to Fix It)
Timeboxing is an eminently practical book that changed my habits almost immediately—and also changed the way I think about time itself. It helped me organize my life around the people and things that matter most.
— Luke Burgis, author of Wanting: The Power of Mimetic Desire, and How to Want What You Need
Constraint = Freedom. In Timeboxing, Marc Zao-Sanders explores the why behind constraining your time as well as the practical details of how to make it happen. The goal isn’t to live a rigid existence but instead a life vibrant with intention and full of what truly matters to you. If you feel like you’re floating through life without a plan, read this book.
— Elizabeth Grace Saunders, author of Divine Time Management
Contact Ella Watkins ([email protected]) from Penguin Random House to make a booking.