The 10 natural laws of successful time and life management: proven strategies for increased productivity and inner peace

Hyrum Smith is the inventor of the Franklin Day Planner!  His book is an outgrowth of time management training seminars that he has taught all over the world.  I know a few people that definitely NEED to read this book just for those aspects (goes along with my gripes on execution; see Bossidy).  Time management turns out to be a small part of this book.  Hyrum’s thesis is you will never be happy with managing your time unless your use of time is in sync with your personal values.  He elaborates a model of our behavior to show this.  Have you ever discovered a belief or prejudice that you had to unlearn the hard way?  And once you did, relationships with your significant other, coworkers, and/or friends got better?  Hyrum’s model attempts to explain these “aha”s and epiphanies.  I found my reading of this book very timely for myself; others who are not so introspective may find it profound, while I would expect some to find it boring.

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