Best Time Management Books
1. The 4-Hour Workweek: Escape 9-5, Live Anywhere, and Join the New Rich
4 hour work week is one of those books which motivated me to blog. It is one of the best books for time and resource management. Tim Ferris shares all his tips and tricks which he has learnt from his own experience and which he has tried and tested himself.
Do not read the book if you are happy with your 9 to 5 job. This book is how Timothy Ferris went from $40000 per year and 80 hours per week to $40000 per month and 4 hours per week. Also Blogging is one of the only few professions where you can practice 4 hour work week to great extent.
2. Eat That Frog!: 21 Great Ways to Stop Procrastinating and Get More Done in Less Time
- Set the table: Decide exactly what you want. Clarity is essential. Write out your goals and objectives before you begin.
2. Plan every day in advance: Think on paper. Every minute you spend in planning can save you five or ten minutes in execution.
3. Apply the 80/20 Rule to everything: Twenty percent of your activities will account for eighty percent of your results. Always concentrate your efforts on that top twenty percent.
4. Consider the consequences: Your most important tasks and priorities are those that can have the most serious consequences,positive or negative, on your life or work. Focus on these above all else.
5. Practice creative procrastination: Since you can’t do everything, you must learn to deliberately put off those tasks that are of low value so that you have enough time to do the few things that really count.
6. Use the ABCDE Method continually: Before you begin work on a list of tasks, take a few moments to organize them by value and priority so you can be sure of working on your most important activities.
7. Focus on key result areas: Identify and determine those results that you absolutely, positively have to get to do your job well, and work on them all day long.
8. The Law of Three: Identify the three things you do in your work that account for 90% of your contribution and focus on getting them done before anything else. You will then have more time for your family and personal life.
9. Prepare thoroughly before you begin: have everything you need at hand before you start. Assemble all papers, information, tools, work materials and numbers so that you can get started and keep going.
10. Take it one oil barrel at a time: You can accomplish the biggest and most complicated job if you just complete it one step at a time.
11. Upgrade your key skills: The more knowledgeable and skilled you become at your key tasks, the faster you start them and the sooner you get them done.
12. Leverage your special talents: Determine exactly what it is that you are very good at doing, or could be very good at, and throw your whole heart into doing those specific things very, very well.
13. Identify your key constraints: Determine the bottlenecks or chokepoints, internally or externally, that set the speed at which you achieve your most important goals and focus on alleviating them.
14. Put the pressure on yourself: Imagine that you have to leave town for a month and work as if you had to get all your major tasks completed before you left.
15. Maximize your personal powers: Identify your periods of highest mental and physical energy each day and structure your most important and demanding tasks around these times. Get lots of rest so you can perform at your best.
16. Motivate yourself into action: Be your own cheerleader. Look for the good in every situation. Focus on the solution rather than the problem. Always be optimistic and constructive.
17. Get Out of The Technological Time Sinks: Use technology to improve the quality of your communications, but do not allow yourself to become a slave to. Learn to occasionally turn things off, and leave them off.
18. Slice and dice the task: Break large, complex tasks down into bite sized pieces and then just do one small part of the task to get started.
19. Create large chunks of time: Organize your days around large blocks of time where you can concentrate for extended periods on your most important tasks.
20. Develop a sense of urgency: Make a habit of moving fast on your key tasks. Become known as a person who does things quickly and well.
21. Single handle every task: Set clear priorities, start immediately on your most important task and then work without stopping until the job is 100% complete. This is the real key to high performance and maximum personal productivity.
3. Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
“Deep Work — Professional activities performed in a state of distraction-free concentration that push your cognitive capabilities to their limit. These efforts create new value, improve your skill, and are hard to replicate.”
4. The one thing gary keller
The One Thing (The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results) by Gary Keller
The Book Explain Following things
Jack of All Trades, Master of None.
- No one who was average ever truly succeeded at creating extraordinary results.
- You need to forget about achieving balance.
- All successful people have that “one thing” that they’re great at.
You can’t be extraordinary and live a balanced life.
Multi-tasking is a lie; you cannot do it. Forget it. There’s no need to achieve all of these things. Accept the chaos.
5. Getting Things Done-by David Allen
Getting Things Done by David Allen is one of the instant classics of the self-help book range. With millions sold and countless success stories out there, is it still relevant? And who’s the book best for?
6. The 12 week year
The 12 Week Year is an execution system designed by consultants Brian Moran and Michael Lennington that has taken the world by storm. It challenges the common practice of annualised thinking, claiming that the psychology of this ubiquitous concept, and how it governs our lives, holds us back from achieving our goals.
7. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
Make Time includes more than 80 tactics for finding focus and building energy, plus a four-step daily framework for choosing the ones that work best for you.
8. Time Managament
The book is very good with simple english and practical idea of saving time, organising ourselves and improvement in efficiency and effectiveness. Books also talk about balanced life.
9. The 5 AM Club: Own Your Morning, Elevate Your Life
The story begins with the entrepreneur character who lost most of her shares and she is so close to the situation where she is going to be fired by the company she started. Begin in such a situation she goes to depression and will try to commit suicide.
That’s when she finds the entry pass for the life-changing event by Spellbinder as the entry pass placed on the table by entrepreneur mother. She feels to give it a try.
In the Spellbinder seminar hall, she meets the Artist who love to paint but miss his focus multiple times in his life. While Spellbinder was giving the speech on how to get control of your life, he will falls down.
Entrepreneur and Artist feel bad about Spellbinder, While they about to leave the seminar hall, they will meet Mr. Riley (Billionaire). Three of them will start discussing Spellbinder speech. While leaving the seminar hall, Mr. Riley offers both Entrepreneur and Artist to join him at the same place the next day at 5:00 AM. So he will teach on how to own the early morning and elevate our lives.
From the next day, the main story begins.
The main story is all about how the Entrepreneur and Artist followed the tactics explained by Billionaire and how their life changed afterward.
Finally, the book ends with, what happened to these main four characters after five years (been in 5 AM club).