Organizing Your Day: Time Management Techniques That Will Work for You

Sandra Felton and Marsha Sims have written a book that can help you reclaim your time, your motivation, your inspiration, and in short, your own best life! This book goes beyond the typical sort-purge-store system by helping the reader discover the personal characteristics and habits that keep many of us in a cycle of harried activity, cluttered spaces, and seriously diminished productivity at work and at home. They include all the strategies and skills necessary to design, create, and maintain an organized life, but for me the best part of their book was the renewed desire I found to invest myself in the key relationships in my life. I want the people who matter most to me to have the lion's share of my time, energy, and focus; this book gave me both the tools and the inspiration to accomplish my real life mission!

This book goes beyond helpful tips and the "how-to" of using a daily planner; the authors hit on the WHY of poor time management. Many chapters are devoted to helping the reader understand what leads him/her to choose how to spend his time. The beginning of the book uses fictitious case files to illustrate different perspectives of poor time choices and really draws an eye-opening comparison between personal goals and priorities and how that reflects in a daily plan. The authors experience shines in such insight as "time management is really SELF management". I think the authors do a superb job of encouraging the reader to create a vision for life and then showing how to begin achieving that dream, in part, by crafting a schedule that will serve the reader, as opposed to the reader feeling that his/her day is out of control. Very helpful and encouraging.

this is a succinct, clear book w/ a layout that makes referring back to it later very easy. as i read the book, i was amazed to find the writers seemed to have an understanding of my problems as if they had done a personal consultation w/ me in my home and office. they obviously are experts on the subject and know how to convey a message of hope and understanding while offering realistic suggestions for change that are not unreasonable nor overwhelming in their execution. this book stays very near to me as i carry out the changes i need to make in the small steps suggested. highly recommended.

Having the problem of chronic lateness (even if only 5-10 mins) inspired me to buy this book. I underestimated how many other aspects of my life this book would positively impact! It is very readable and full of inspiring and practical ideas of how to manage your time to make the most of life. I can see it's value for people in various working roles as well as stay at home mums or part timers. I am recommending it to all my friends, but can't bear to loan them my copy just yet!

This book is me all the way. Too many uncompleted projects, time stretched too far and never enough time in the day. If this is you, I highly recommend this book. Love the little quotes along the way also.