MAIN IDEA
"Most people are not overworked ... they are under-organized. I believe the average person can do 50 percent more than they are doing now, including all the right things, if they have an effective system for keeping their lives under control."
– Lee Cockerell
Time management matters today more than ever. If you have how you use your time under control, you not only have your career under control but also your life. A good time management system is a genuine must-have.
While there is lots of technology which can help with time management, the best systems tend to be simple and easy to use. To manage your time more effectively, you really just need two components:
The classic day-timer style planning journal.
Your smartphone – for storing contact details.
Using just these basic components, you can put together a robust working system for planning your goals and achieving them. You can do a better job of applying time and life management in your daily life. When it comes to time management, the magic lies in what you do, not merely in what you know.
"The bottom line is, we can all do a better job of implementing time and life management in our daily lives. This system is like any other system. You can learn to do it just as you can learn other things. Remember that everything is hard before it is easy, but when you master the hard things, life gets easier."
– Lee Cockerell
LEE COCKERELL is the founder of his own management and customer service consulting company. He is former executive vice president of operations for Walt Disney World. While working for Disney, he led a team of 40,000 employees and was responsible for the operation of 20 resort hotels, four theme parks, two water parks and a shopping and entertainment village. Before working for Disney, Lee Cockerell held various executive positions with Hilton Hotels and the Marriott Corporation. He is the author of Creating Magic and The Customer Rules He is a graduate of Oklahoma State University.
The Web site for this book is at www.LeeCockerell.com.
This is a summary and not a critique or a review of the book. It does not offer judgment or opinion on the content of the book. This summary may not be organized chapter-wise but is an overview of the main ideas, view points and arguments from the book as a whole. This means that the organization of this summary is not a representation of the book.
The quality of your life, both personal and professional, is directly affected by how and where you spend your time. This is something you should think about and more importantly do something about on a regular basis. Learn how to be better organized and you will get more done – it really is that simple.
Everyone has at one point or another thought: "I don't have enough time!" The stark reality is there's not one person on the planet who can fit more than 24 hours into a day. Successful people manage to achieve what they do by being better organized than the average person.
When you start thinking about time management, it quickly becomes clear there are two dimensions:
