From your morning commute to your late-afternoon coffee break, your daily travel through time may be filled with costly detours and countless obstacles. Are your days typically disrupted by disorganization and delays? Do you spin your wheels on the dirt paths of life? Fortunately, Brian Tracy offers a concise map around the daily roadblocks. His text provides a toolbox of effective time-management techniques, ranging from New Age-style visualizations ("mental rehearsals") to concrete 15-minute planning blocks. Tracy provides solutions for reprogramming a self-defeating subconscious and for retooling aimless corporate meetings. He suggests useful exercises and summaries, including action steps at the end of each chapter. Tracy apparently designed the book in a way that enables you to digest individual chapters as self-contained units. For this reason, it has redundancies, but this weakness is also a strength. Through repetition, Tracy really drives home important time-saving concepts. We recommend this highly useful, highly applicable anti-time-theft device to road weary executives and staff members who are lost in space and time. This book is a keeper for ongoing renewal.
TimePower by Charles Hobbs is s SYSTEM rather than a lot of abstract suggestions. Brian does have a habit of using other people's titles (Thinking Big was Schwartz's). And my experience of Tracy's books are that you just need one - the material is then repeated ad nauseum in a different order in all the others. One is good, once is enough. But this isn't the one. If you want to manage time, go for Hobbs' version or First Things First by Stephen Covey.
Regular readers of Brian Tracy will know his ideas are repeated in his new books; I would argue they are such good ideas they are worth repeating.
Much ground is covered here in this 250+ page book; from setting goals, following your true desires, making plans, prioritising and using affirmations to basic stuff like getting up early in the morning!
Even though some of these ideas are obvious, they are also very practical and they do work.
