The Time Bandit Solution
Recovering Stolen Time You Never Knew You Had
by Edward G. Brown
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Pub Date Sep 02 2014 | Archive Date Feb 24 2015
Description
You may not realize you are at the mercy of Time Bandits - people who steal your precious time, not with malice or intention, but with crippling effect on your own pursuits. They steal 40-60% of your time. And because your worst Time Bandits are probably your family, colleagues, clients, bosses, and friends, we can't just say no - we would risk offending them, or worse, losing clients or getting fired.
Thus, The Time Bandit Solution is a step-by-step lesson on how to recover stolen time you never knew you had. It is designed to teach you the arts and skills for graciously negotiating with the Time Bandits to prevent interruptions from sapping your productivity and satisfaction. The Time Bandit Solution also explains how the damage they cause lingers well beyond the interruption itself, how the stress of interruptions subtracts joy from your most important endeavors, and how to redeploy the time you recover.
Do you often think or say, ''I have too much to do, and not enough time to do it''? If so, this book is for you. If you find yourself frustrated by too many interruptions and feel powerless to prevent them, you want to read this book.
With The Time Bandit Solution, you will free yourself from the distress of unwanted, unnecessary and unproductive interruptions, and recapture the time to do what you must and what you dream of doing.
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| EDITION | Paperback |
| ISBN | 9780989915113 |
| PRICE | $23.99 (USD) |
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Featured Reviews
Donna P, Reviewer
Time heals all wounds.
Time wounds all heels.
Killing time.
Give it time.
The sands of time.
Time on our hands.
A race against time.
Wasting my time.
All in good time.
Find the time.
Going down to South Park gonna have myself a time.
We sure are obsessed with time. Clocks, calendars, apps, books, movies, poems, idioms...Is it because there never seems to be enough of it? Or because we feel its loss so acutely?
I love my son, but his Asperger’s is a time-stealer, not only from me, but himself which is why when I saw the title of this book, The Time Bandit by Edward G. Brown (Greenleaf Book Group) I was intrigued. I'm sure you know people who steal your time and even if it's unintentional, we can be time bandits as well.
The book itself wasn't all that new or unique, but the ideas were well-presented, articulate and detailed; perfect for organizing your time at work or home. The biggest time stealer of all? Distractions and there are more everyday. It doesn’t matter how organized we think we are, we can all do with ways to use time more effectively.
As for time wounding all heels, that's what The Marx Brothers said and we all know how wise they were.
Next time you say, "Do you have a minute?" or someone says the same to you, remember, there are only 1440 minutes per day, don't steal too many, or have them stolen. I don’t know if time is a friend or enemy or frenemy, all I really know is, you only have the time you have.
"Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana." ~Groucho Marx
Greg A, Reviewer
The Time Bandit Solutions offers a remarkable antidote to time-pressed individuals in any workplace. With its colorful, magazine-like presentation, the book introduces us to the fundamental reason of why we have too much to do and too little time available: interruptions.
Interruption is anything that causes us to put anything we are doing to a halt. These interruptions usually come from our colleagues, family members, clients/customers, and even ourselves. Collectively these individuals are being referred to in this book as: Time Bandits.
Here are some of the good reasons why you should read this book:
1. It offers a practical, step-by-step ways on how to manage time bandits.
2. This book will teach you how to negotiate with time bandits so they will respect your time for your important tasks.
3. It will give you helpful insights on how the steps work.
4. The book is written in a highly personalize perspective of its author Edward Brown, making this work entertaining as well.
5. The advice is very easy to follow but just like any advice it requires the will from the reader to reap the benefits.
6. The book is worth the money you will pay for it. The lessons from this book will guarantee you to make additional time for highly important things. This additional time can be used to learn, earn and enjoy more out of life.
While those are the good things why you should read this book, it is not a perfect one. For one thing, I found some colors on some pages too striking for the eyes especially for e-books. Second, there are some minor spelling errors in some sentences; but hopefully those were already rectified.
Overall, this is a very good work in its field. I would recommend this book to anyone who wants to make the most out of their 24 hours in a day.
Reviewer 182646
Outset ideas and real truths. Great read and needs to be read my everybody now. Let's hope it makes more people think.
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