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..... a better way to manage! Time Management Resources And Links Essential Reading First Things First By Stephen Covey, Roger Merrill and Rebecca MerrillWhat are the most important things in your life? Do they get as much care, emphasis, and time as you'd like to give them? The book aims to focus on the real human needs: "to live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy" This is not a traditional "be-more-efficient" time-management book with shortcut techniques, First Things First shows you how to look at your use of time totally differently. It seeks to help you create balance between your personal and professional responsibilities by putting first things first and acting on them. Whilst not being a book of checklists it does have practical processes you can use to help put first things first. the important/urgent framework is a useful tool to organise and make sense of your time. It addresses the "why" as well as the "how" of using you time.  The 80/20 Principle. The Secret of Achieving More With Less. By Richard Koch.This book is included here because it offers a chapter which aims to set a very different and radical view to time management. In the third section of his book Richard Koch outlines ways in which we all could " work less, earn and enjoy more". Of particular note is the chapter entitled "Time Revolution" where Koch argues: " It is not that we are short of time....It is the way that we treat time, even the way that we think about it. A time revolution..is the fastest way to make a giant leap in both happiness and effectiveness."The 80/20 Principle offers a very different take to the usual time management resources.  Getting Things Done. By David Allen.This book is not explictly about time management, but in its whole life approach to getting organised provides essential ideas and a proven approach to organising and getting things done. In fact David Allen suggests that we don't really need more time management resources, what we need is thought management. Allen argues that one of the problems we all suffer from is that we feel we have to much to do and not enough time to do it. "Why do people complain that there's no time to get their work done? because there is more work to do than the work they think they have to do." Based on this conclusion Allen's process is to first get everything you currently are involved with and thinking about down on paper. He argues persuasively that you need to unclutter your mind of uncertainty of what is unresolved. Only by doing this can you see what you are committed to, and then act.The book is supported by some excellent resources from dDvid Allen's web site, with some well designed flow charts to summarise the process. Allen provocatively states "There are only two problems in life.... Problem #1 You know what you want, and you don't know how to get it. Problem #2 You don't know what you want. The solutions? To problem #1 you need to make it happen (determine how you get from here to there) and to problem #2 you need to make it up, (decide what outcome you are after) Suggested Further Reading Manage you Time Essential Manager). By Tim HindleLearn all you need to know about allocating your time wisely, from assessing the reasons that time problems arise to distributing your time realistically and effectively. "Manage Your Time" not only shows you how to prioritize your workload and cope with other people's demands, but also provides practical techniques for you to use when organizing your time. Tips aim to help you to handle real-life situations and develop your time-management skills. Return to Happy Manager Resources from Time Management Resources And Links
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