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18 Minutes

Find Your Focus, Master Distraction and Get the Right Things Done

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 How often do you get to the end of another long and frantic day and wonder why so many important things didn't get finished? We've never worked so hard and felt so unproductive and unfulfilled.

18 MINUTES takes this challenge and turns it on its head. Peter Bregman, top HARVARD BUSINESS REVIEW columnist and global management consultant, shatters the myth of getting it all done by offering a clear and simple plan for getting the right things done.

He shows how the best way to fight distracting interruptions is to create productive ones ourselves, a practice that can be easily implemented in 18 minutes a day. The result is a simple yet comprehensive approach to managing your life a year, a day, and a moment at a time so that your life moves forward the way you want and at the pace you want.

Written and read by Peter Bregman

(p) 2011 Hachette Audio©2011 Peter Bregman Career Success Personal Development Personal Success Time Management Time Management & Productivity Career Business

Critic reviews

Pick this book up and read it. Bregman's wisdom, humility, and ability to tell a great story run through every page of this gem. 18 MINUTES is the best blend of a business book and a self-help book I have ever read (Robert Sutton, author of Good Boss, Bad Boss)
Everybody is busy. With work, social commitments and family life, it's sometimes hard to see how you'll get everything done. But Peter Bregman claims to have the solution in time management. Rather than trying to get everything done, he advises you say no to distractions and get the important stuff done. A fascinating read with gems of advice
The book provides a valuable, practical guide to time and life management
18 MINUTES is an intensely smart, insanely readable, and eminently practical guide to boosting our effectiveness and deepening our satisfaction. I've already benefited from the ideas in is book in my own work. So will you (Daniel Pink, author of Drive and A Whole New Mind)
Feeling in control of your time is a key element of happiness. In the thoughtful, practical, and often funny 18 MINUTES, Peter Bregman explains how to make sure we have plenty of time to do the things that matter most to us - so that our lives reflect our true values and priorities (Gretchen Rubin, bestselling author of The Happiness Project)
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This is a pretty good book on time management and productivity, but nothing particularly groundbreaking here are you can get from other books. I also felt like the first half of the book was quite heavily padded out and could've been more concise. Much of the practical advice comes in the second half and these were my takeaway chapters:

28, 30, 32, 47, 49, 51 & 53

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Refreshing insights on managing your life and making effective use of your time by making simple choices.

Acknowledges the variety and depth of challenges we all face in this fast paced, technological age where expectations are unsustainably high both of ourselves and others.

Encourages you to think what your actual priorities are, to focus on those and learn to let other less important things go - it is tougher than you think!!

It is quick and easy to follow and you can take from it what you want, there is no underlying 'pressure' to complete exhausting and extensive self analysis often found in books of this genre.

It does offer valuable experience that can be applied in your own personal and professional life, to help improve the performance of your business and encourage you to have a more fulfilling and enjoyable personal life.

Well done Mr Bergman and thank you for persisting and maintaining your focus!

My one thing - I choose to reduce the influence of my mobile phone and focus on being present with my family, my business etc so I am not wasting that valuable time messing with my mobile phone!

Excellent

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Simple and powerful ideas. He cites good researchs often. Very actual and useful in modern days problems of productivity and success.

Best book I've read/heard in 2020.

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Simple practical advice told in Memorable narrative. I've explored many books about this subject. Peter gets it right with wisdom.

Simplicity

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