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A truly excellent book

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Many books have been described as "life changing", but it's seldom true. However, it was true for me with this book. I had recognised that my time management was very poor, and I needed to do something about it, and I choose this book to help me. Like many other people, I was really struggling to keep on top of my emails (I had a backlog of over 1300 in my inbox when I started reading this book), and one of the splendid things about this book is a really sensible and workable system for dealing with emails. I have no email backlog now, and I say this having just returned from a week's holiday. The book is easy to read and full of useful tips for not only email but many of the other things that take up too much time. I don't promise this book will work for you as well as it worked for me, because I guess to some extent time management techniques are personal and maybe some techniques work well for some people and less well for others. All I know is that the techniques described in this book worked spectacularly well for me and have significantly changed my life for the better. If you're reading this, Mark Forster, thank you so much for a brilliant book.

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This is my first ever review for Amazon, which illustrates the way I feel about this book. The approach is simple and effective, however, it will require discipline and commitment to make it work. That said, you will need to forgive yourself when you do not quite make it. This is the best book on time management I have ever read.

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I normally don't leave comments and feedbacks for the books but I had to do it this time. This book is really fantastic position to read. Helped me so much. Methods to manage the time are so simple and very easy to implement. I would recommend this book to everyone.

It works! Give it a go!

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What a great concept. - this book was recommneded to me by a colleague who is having some business coaching. She is on the most highly effective and capable people I know, so when she told me about this book and suggested I read it, I took her advice seriously. I was surprised by the title as it seem to go against most of what I have read before about prioritising and not putting things off. Well all I can say is that I have tried it and it works! I like his closed list concept and some of his "how to fool yourself" concepts too. I never thought I would be recommending a book that says that, but "success breeds success". Therefore create any way to be successful and then you will become more successful. So go for the little things and build up to more. I have found it brings more joy when you do what Mark suggests and then the fun begins. I have had numerous "to do lists" and they are rapidly disappearing!

Disappointing if you do a service-oriented job

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After reading all the amazing praise for this book I bought it immediately, but I have to say that upon reading it I was slightly puzzled as to why everyone had been raving about it. I can only guess that these people are devoted fans since reading his previous work, as I found that the book was lacking for my purposes. I did pick up some good tips, such as the use of a task diary rather than a to-do-list, and the tips on filing systems were good. The book also made me question whether I really wanted to 'commit'to many of the tasks I burden myself with, after which I decided that many of them aren't really that important. However, my major problem with this book is the main concept of doing everything tomorrow. I think this idea would probably work fine if you work from home or by yourself in an office, and find that procrastination is a problem. If you do a more service-oriented job like mine though, I don't think you will find the information is very applicable. He does admit this at one point in the book, but doesn't offer much alternative advice if this is the case. For this reason I found most of the book pretty useless. I also have to admit that I found his writing style pretty boring, he seems to spend most of the first half of the book telling you what he is going to tell you later in the book, then recapping everything at every possible opportuntity. It felt like reading an undergraduate dissertation!