High Performance Through Self-Management

This book is targetted primarily at young adults. It provides an excellent introduction to the concept of self management, which is a very important skill to acquire for peak performance & success in school, in work activities & ultimately, in life. Self management, as the book explains, involves the following steps: - taking personal responsibility for all your choices, decisions & actions,; - setting goals in all areas of your life; - prioritising & scheduling all your activites; - checking, monitoring & evaluating your progress toward goal achievment; There are only 64 pages in this book. Hence you can read it very quickly. However, at the end of each chapter (there are seven) the author has systematically posed the reader with some review/reflection questions. These questions have been crafted for the reader to think through the steps prior to personal application. I always enjoy reading books with questions like these. My only complaint about this book is that the photographs used in this book, some of which are in black & white, are very dull indeed. Even the colour photograph on the front cover is visually disappointing. In today's internet age, the publisher could have done a much better job here. Nevertheless, the author has provided a useful resource bibliography at the end of the book. They are worth further reading & /or exploration by the reader. In this context, I would like to add that this book is actually part of a 10-book-The Learning-a-Living Library series. Among the many titles, I particularly enjoy reading & exploring the following: (which I may review separately): - High Performance through Understanding Systems; - High Performance through Leadership; - High Performance through Effective Scheduling; - High Performance through Organising Information;