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The Skinny on Time Management by Jim Randel: Another Must Read Skinny Book

As I’ve said before on Self Help Daily and Out of Bounds, I’m hooked on The Skinny On books by Jim Randel. They’re extremely fun to read, they look colorful and wickedly handsome on your desk and shelves, the illustrations leave you smiling inside-out, and they’re absolutely packed with great information, advice and tips.

The most recent Skinny book I’ve read is The Skinny on Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift.

“Time Management.”

The phrase, alone, conjures up a host of reactions, doesn’t it? From “Time Management? Is there really such a beast?” to “Time management? Where do I get me some of that?!” - and every reaction in between, one thing’s for sure, you hardly ever hear anyone say,”I’m an expert at time management. In fact, I think there are too many hours in the day…”

If anyone ever did say that, I’d be tempted to kick them in the shin. The warning has been issued.

The Skinny on Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift by Jim Randel is presented in a way that can actually be read in one hour. There’s little doubt in my mind that this is true. I, however, am not a good example. I enjoyed my advance copy (sent to review on Self Help Daily) in the front yard one evening – between a bird feeding station and flower garden. I kept taking time to reflect on what I’d read by staring at butterflies, hummingbirds, golden finches, and the like.

When I read, I like to mentally digest each nugget of information and each Jim Randel book is packed with golden nuggets. I also keep a notebook and pen nearby to jot down notes or ideas as they come to me. A few times I was so furiously taking notes that the butterflies and birds were watching me.

The hurrier I go, the more I fall behind. – Anonymous

As I always state in my book reviews, it’s especially hard to give a book review for a book (or series of books) that blow me straight away. If I”m lukewarm on a book or simply like it, it’s easy – I just say so. I give the link, I pull out a quote or two and that’s that. If I don’t like the book, it’s even easier – I pretend the whole thing never happened and forget that the book and I ever met…. as in zero review. Zero mention.

Well, you can’t mention something that never happened.

However, when it’s a book that I’d dearly love to see all of you read, it’s a bit of a dilemma. How can I stress upon you the magnificence of a book without giving away key points, ideas, and advice from the book? I’ve read some book reviews that pretty much give away the entire heart of a book – to me, as a book lover extraordinaire, that’s almost a criminal act. The true beauty of a book lies in the nuggets that are experienced, first-hand, by the reader.

Someone once suggested that I pluck out one key element and present it. While I use this approach most of the time, I do so with hesitation – after all, what if every book reviewer plucked out a different element? Then the precious book would be all but given away online!

Nothing worse than a worry-wart-book-worm.

Time is the coin of life. Only you can determine how it will be spent. – Carl Sandburg

If time management is a concern for you, your solution is one click away. In The Skinny on Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift, Jim Randel has done all of the work for us. He has researched the topic at great length – reading the giants in the field of time management. He then brilliantly presents what he has uncovered in an entertaining yet highly informative presentation.

You’ll find tips, advice, quotes, recommendations, and simple ideas to help you get the most from your 24 hours.

I was delighted to read that Jim Randel is an advocate of to do lists – I live by my to do lists! However, the author takes to do lists to a whole new level of productivity with a few simple tactics that make all the difference. I’ve already implemented a few of the tips I picked up from The Skinny on Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift and I’ve been extremely impressed.

I have, as you may know, many blogs and websites. With all the other hats I wear offline (mother, wife, avid cook, bird watcher, baseball fanatic… come on Cardinals…. movie addict, gardener…), this leaves me without a lot of leeway in the amount of time I have to work with each day. Time management has always been a huge issue with me.

In fact, when the e-mail came through, asking if I’d be interested in an advance copy of this book to review, I was having one of “those” days and couldn’t help laughing at the irony. A lot of us laugh when we’re about to completely crack.

I have been using the tactics and ideas from The Skinny on Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift for nearly a week and am blown away with the impact it has had.

I have found myself able to accomplish more – and one of the main reasons can be attributed to what Jim Randel advises to do with one’s to do list…. a little classification tweak that has made a world of difference for me.

And I believe it will for you as well.

For less than what you’d pay to eat out, you can buy a book that can lead you to being able to afford more meals out.

The Skinny on Time Management:

Learn how to improve your memory with 10 outstanding tips.
Learn how improving your memory will improve your time management.
Learn the importance of To Do lists.
Learn how to make your To Do list work for you like never before.
Using your hours to maximum effectiveness.
What INERTIA is and the evil role it plays.
Organization tips and strategies.
A link to a fun, online self-assessment test to determine how well you manage your time.
How to determine how you are budgeting your time currently.
Habits, quadrants, and sequences… oh my!
Techniques for time management.
So much more!

You simply will not find more delightful books than those written by Jim Randel in The Skinny On series. Come on, you know me! I’m the person book worms look up to. I read a great deal of books and am familiar with what’s out there. The Skinny On books can’t be topped.

I strongly urge you to grab a copy of The Skinny On Time Management today. Then, I further urge you to grab copies of the rest in the series.

I resolve to live with all my might while I do live. I resolve never to lose one moment of time and to improve my use of time in the most profitable way I possibly can. I resolve never to do anything I wouldn't do, if it were the last hour of my life. – Jonathan Edwards

To order your copy today, go to The Skinny on Time Management: How to Maximize Your 24-Hour Gift – it’ll rank up there with being one of the smartest things you did this year.

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