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How to Make the Most of Your Workday
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How to Make the Most of Your Workday

Peg Pickering
Career Press, 2001
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Peg Pickering presents a standard, basic time and self management guide, which is particularly helpful for disorganized people. She teaches you how to organize your work and yourself. Many of the guidelines will be familiar and seem like plain common sense. However, she presents the material in a well-organized brass-tacks way, and her summaries at the end of each chapter are particularly useful highlights of the main points. She also includes a number of charts, forms and quizzes that provide helpful advice for organizing your life and work. Additionally, the book is formatted in a reader-friendly way, with boxes and frequent headlines and type-changes that make it easy to skip ahead to the topics that interest you most. getAbstract.com recommends this good solid guide, particularly for office workers, managers and business professionals.

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Today, many people feel overworked, overwhelmed, over-committed and over-stressed. The problem is having so much to do in too little time and dealing with information overload. To work smarter and more efficiently, use the "Strategic Organizing and Managing Process." It will show you how to set goals and prioritize, how to plan and analyze so you can reach your goals, and what actions to take now.

The key to gaining balance in your life is self-management. A major component of this process is controlling your time in order to control your life. To gain more time, identify any time wasters and personal inefficiencies so you can eliminate them. Rather than trying to put in more hours, find ways to more effectively and efficiently use the hours you have.

To make this self-management process work, make a serious commitment to regaining control over what you do based on your priorities. Eliminate old habits and develop new ones. Major improvements require taking these critical actions:

  • Clearly define your mission and goals. Prioritizing requires a sense of purpose.
  • Establish and communicate your priorities, so you follow them every...

About the Author

Peg Pickering is a trainer and management consultant who offers seminars and workshops throughout the United States on prioritizing and organization.

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