Work Less, Do More

Work Less, Do More
Author: Jan Yager
Publisher: Sterling Publishing Company, Inc.
Total Pages: 228
Release: 2008
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781402748370

"I don’t have enough time.” This common complaint resounds in companies big and small, affecting employees at every level. As businesses across the board downsize, and become global operations thanks to the Internet, fewer employees struggle to accomplish more in ever-longer workdays. In this essential guide to getting things done intelligently and efficiently, renowned time-management expert Dr. Jan Yager presents her revolutionary program for taking back control of your life. Filled with worksheets, quizzes, and tips on everything from managing e-mail to dealing with a disorganized boss to enjoying precious family time, this unique system will help you boost your productivity and realize your professional and personal goals.

Work Less and Play More

Work Less and Play More
Author: Steven A. Catlin
Publisher: Kimberlite Publishing
Total Pages: 0
Release: 1997
Genre: Finance, Personal
ISBN: 9780965418805

Work Like Your Dog

Work Like Your Dog
Author: Luke Barber
Publisher: Villard
Total Pages: 273
Release: 2009-07-29
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0307568563

Having more fun at work isn't a fantasy. It's a smart and savvy strategy to becoming a more creative, productive, and dynamic employee. Work Like Your Dog is an inspiring call to "come out and play" at work. Dogs seem to have endless energy and tackle tasks with enviable enthusiasm, and Matt Weinstein and Luke Barber believe that most people could take a course from their ca-nines. By learning to play more at their jobs, workers can "lick" difficult challenges, take pleasure from tasks previously dreaded, reduce their levels of stress, and recharge their creative side. People spend more time working, thinking about work, and traveling to and from work than all other waking activities combined. Employees are asked to do more for less--making their work lives more exhausting and less satisfying. More hours are far from the answer; honing a sense of frolic and fun is. This book is a launching pad for fifty fun lessons about frolicking your way to success: Don't be afraid of being the fool. Be prepared to take risks; your new experiences may well lead to new contacts or new accounts and, if nothing else, will make you feel wonderful. Celebrate every success, not just your own but your coworker's new account, brilliant idea, or anniversary. You'll help release tension, underscore positives, and keep people aware of challenges conquered. Use humor to solve problems. Create a swearing room, where you and coworkers vent frustrations. Use a joke to diffuse verbal abuse from a customer. Humor can help you stay focused on the most important aspects of your job and prevent the worst aspects from getting the upper hand. Why choose stress? Almost every situation can provoke either stress or laughter. If you choose the highway of humor, your job will be more enjoyable and you'll work more effectively. And many more suggestions, stories, and ideas to unleash your playful professional and keep you from barking up the wrong tree. Weinstein and Barber's advice comes from seminar attendees and hundreds of corporate clients, such as American Express, IBM, Federal Express, and AT&T. This book shares the wisdom from these employees and from twenty-plus years of helping people enjoy their way to success.

Work Less, Finish More

Work Less, Finish More
Author: Megan Holstein
Publisher:
Total Pages: 152
Release: 2020-11-08
Genre:
ISBN:

Do you feel too busy? Do you feel like you are always working and never relaxing? Do you wish you had more free time? If so, this is the book you need. If you're anything like most people, you work more than you want to. You constantly have to turn down invitations for lunch, drinks, or vacations because you have too much to do. You're busy and overworked, and you're tired of it. You want to stop living this way. You want to finally get some time to just sit down and relax, to spend time with friends and family, to pursue hobbies you love. You want to live the kind of life you read about on the internet, the kind of life where you can work less, achieve more, and have plenty of time for the people and things you love. Well, you can have that life. That's what Work Less, Finish More is about. In Work Less, Finish More, you'll learn key principles of productivity that allow productive people to take care of all their responsibilities with hours to spare. Once you know these principles of productivity, you will no longer feel overworked - in fact, you may even have so much free time you feel bored. In Work Less, Finish More you will learn: The key principles of productivity that the successful know (and the overworked don't) How to use these key principles to understand your own productivity strategy How to identify activities that don't contribute to your life and painlessly cut them out How to create a distraction-free environment that makes it easy to focus and do deep work If you want to work less and get more done, Work Less, Finish More is for you.

Work Less, Do More

Work Less, Do More
Author: Jan Yager
Publisher: Hannacroix Creek Books
Total Pages: 251
Release: 2016-09-01
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 9781938998478

In this third edition of her international hit time management book, WORK LESS, DO MORE, sociologist/productivity and relationship coach and expert Dr. Jan Yager offers a 7-day plan to get more done in less time. This revised and updated book covers everything from assessing how productive you are right now, goal setting, prioritizing, to getting over procrastination, perfectionism, poor planning, poor pacing, decluttering, work-life balance, and lots more. Well-written, and filled with anecdotes, examples, self-quizzes and worksheets, Dr. Yager also shares the results of her original time management surveys of more than 250 men and women on their time challenges, strengths, and preferred productivity tools.

Rest

Rest
Author: Alex Soojung-Kim Pang
Publisher: Basic Books
Total Pages: 322
Release: 2016-12-06
Genre: Psychology
ISBN: 046509659X

"Rest is such a valuable book. If work is our national religion, Pang is the philosopher reintegrating our bifurcated selves."---Arianna Huffington, New York Times Book Review Overwork is the new normal. Rest is something to do when the important things are done—but they are never done. Looking at different forms of rest, from sleep to vacation, Silicon Valley futurist and business consultant Alex Soojung-Kim Pang dispels the myth that the harder we work the better the outcome. He combines rigorous scientific research with a rich array of examples of writers, painters, and thinkers—from Darwin to Stephen King—to challenge our tendency to see work and relaxation as antithetical. "Deliberate rest," as Pang calls it, is the true key to productivity, and will give us more energy, sharper ideas, and a better life. Rest offers a roadmap to rediscovering the importance of rest in our lives, and a convincing argument that we need to relax more if we actually want to get more done.

Time Management Tips To Work Less And Play More

Time Management Tips To Work Less And Play More
Author: Claris Alampi
Publisher: Independently Published
Total Pages: 100
Release: 2021-06-04
Genre:
ISBN:

Using time to think and plan is time well-spent. In fact, if you fail to take time for planning, you are, in effect, planning to fail. Organize in a way that makes sense to you. If you need color and pictures, use a lot on your calendar or planning book. Some people need to have papers filed away; others get their creative energy from their piles. So forget the "shoulds" and organize your way.Her second book, It's Called 24, shares practical & proven time management guidance that is non-forgiving. Whether for daily living, one's career, parenting, achieving goals, sportsmanship, or other means of social acumen, there are only twenty-four hours in each day. We all get the same twenty-four hours each day! Here are the best ways to make the most of your time. Life is short and we must live on purpose, by purpose. Utilize this guidance towards embracing your time more wisely and proficiently than ever before. Habitually manifest the abundance & success you have been hoping for.

Hyperfocus

Hyperfocus
Author: Chris Bailey
Publisher: Macmillan
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2018-09-11
Genre: Self-Help
ISBN: 1760782327

Our attention has never been as overwhelmed or in demand as it is today; we've never been so busy while accomplishing so little, and we've grown uncomfortable with boredom and a lack of stimulation and distraction. In Hyperfocus, Chris Bailey – described by TED.com as 'the most productive man you could ever hope to meet' – provides profound insights into how we can best manage our attention. He reveals how the brain switches between two mental modes – hyperfocus, our deep concentration mode, and scatterfocus, our creative, reflective mode – and how the surest path to being our most creative and efficient selves at work is to combine them both. The often counter-intuitive wisdom at play includes: - How working fewer hours increases our productivity - How drinking caffeine strategically instead of habitually gives us more energy - How we get more done by making our work harder, not easier - How we do our best creative work when we're the most tired Merging neuroscience, psychology and mindfulness with practical takeaways for being more focused in our work and wider lives, Hyperfocus will help you think about and manage your attention on a daily basis.

Practice Less, Play More

Practice Less, Play More
Author: Steve Mastroianni
Publisher:
Total Pages: 256
Release: 2019-02
Genre:
ISBN: 9781795162159

*** SPECIAL LAUNCH PRICE GOES AWAY MARCH 1ST *** If you''re a Self-Taught Guitarist wanting to play songs without spending all your time practicing, this may be the most important book you ever read... But first a warning: this book is NOT for everyone... This isn''t one of those "practice until your fingers bleed" or "cram confusing theory into your mind" type of guitar instruction books. There are plenty of those available (i.e. practice scales & exercises for hours per day and feel guilty if you don''t). When I first decided to learn to play guitar, I read all the guitar books for beginners and focused on developing a lot of areas like scales, theory, and exercises that promised me one day I''d be able to play the songs I loved. The problem is, when you approach practice like that, you have a lot of "stuff" to practice, but you usually have no REAL MUSIC to show for it, ending up with what I call Mountain Climber Syndrome. You feel like eventually, your hard work is going to pay off, everything will come together, and you''ll finally be able to play songs. Why not play songs right away instead? The simple, three-step system in this book requires a slight shift in the way you think about practicing, but leaves you with lots of songs, confidence, and a lifelong skill you can use any time you want to learn the songs you love ON DEMAND. With that said, let''s jump right in... Practice Less, Play More! is about getting immediate results from your guitar. This means ONLY focusing on the things that help you play songs (both BEFORE practice & AFTER practice). The idea is to divide your guitar practice into 3 phases: The first phase focuses on priming your mind so you have the right mindsets & techniques to learn songs quickly and all of the right materials to get the most out of your practice sessions. The second phase focuses on practice technique, showing you exactly how to break a song down and quickly program each part into your fingers. Far too few guitar practice books explain this clearly! The final phase focuses on the best mindsets & techniques to use when you switch out of Practice Mode and are actually playing songs, so you can play them as effortlessly as possible and have a blast doing it. It is called "Practice Less, Play More!", because you are constantly building momentum (and your song Playlist) without having to endure hours of mind-numbing practice. It is actually an easier, less-stressful approach to playing guitar. Not only that, this book shows you: How to get songs to performance-quality within days... You should practice guitar parts over & over until you master them, right? WRONG! (find out why in Chp 7) How to create a practice routine you enjoy and can actually stick to (even if you have a super busy schedule) When is the best time to practice for long-lasting results 5 ways to cut your practice time in half and virtually guarantee you make progress each time you pick up your guitar What to think about while you''re playing songs (the answer may surprise you) How to reduce the amount of mistakes you make and exactly what to do when you make one (most Beginners are doing the opposite!) One practice method you should NEVER use if you want rapid results on guitar Say goodbye to guessing what to practice next and finally build a Playlist of songs you''re proud to play on guitar! The book is an easy read and will feel like we''re just chatting, as I tell you my best stories from on & off tour and show you my best strategies for learning songs. Order Now Before The Price Increases ***All proceeds from this book are being used to create new programs for cancer patients and their caregivers. Thank you for your support!