“Nothing
is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs.”
Robert W. Bly is director of The Center for Technical Communication
(CTC), a consulting fi rm. He is the author of more than 40 books, including
The Six-Figure Consultant, Selling Your
Services, The Lead Generation Handbook and The Encyclopedia of Business
Letters. His articles have appeared in many national publications, and he is
editor of the magazine Bits & Pieces
for Salespeople, published monthly by Economics Press
Summary
Robert
W. Bly's helpful, have comprise the tips and hack is jam-packed with wisdom and
plenty of tips to help you organize, manage your time better, cure
procrastination and increase your productivity. While some of his tips are
plain old common-sense information that you've probably already heard, it may
well bear repeating. Just one look around your office may show you how many
people have heard some of this counsel before but are still hopelessly
disorganized time wasters. Bly includes pertinent data from surveys of leaders
and working stiffs who feel overwhelmed by information, too many demands on
their time and the constant struggle to fit 25 hours of work and real life into
a 24-hour day. He also sprinkles witty and instructive quotes throughout the
book.
“If you don’t think
it’s necessary to be organized
in order to use time efficiently, think again. The average adult
spends 16 hours a year searching for misplaced keys.”
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Make to-do lists: daily, by project, and long-term, and chose
your priorities.
·
Manage meetings by starting and stopping at pre-arranged
times.
·
Overcome procrastination by breaking down projects into less
overwhelming bites,
·
giving yourself incentives for completing things, overcoming
your need to be perfect
·
and delegating or outsourcing parts of projects you fi nd
boring or awful.
·
Eliminate bad habits that waste time and learn to avoid
distractions.
·
Use the 80/20 rule that states that “80% of your
accomplishments come from only
·
20% of your efforts.” Figure out what makes that 20% so
productive.
·
Make and use standard operating procedures, including
designing a productive work space.
·
Adjust your schedule to your energy levels
How can we connect this book
to IB schedule – Time
management is one of the biggest key in studies, as we know it already, This
book tells us about more in time management in a business manner. You need to
try to connect the point from a student of IB board. This book have ample
amount of tips for students to manage their time and doing their all work in
quite efficiently with ease. Some of the tips are really good that you might
like them to apply in your daily schedule of being in IB broad students. If,
you really want to see a good growth in your academics then definitely this
book would really help you to assist.
My personal experience
(results) - I follow the advice given in this book . I
tried to apply the tip in my daily schedule slowly but staidly, the improvement
had been coming out in 2 weeks. I developed many good habits in my to do list
that helps as an assistance in my academics. Some examples are making a
physical to do list on daily basis, keeping my book shelf, locker, cupboard,
etc. in arranged manner. At first you would feel challenging to do it but if
you maintain then it would be beneficial for you.
Strengths – this book contains 8 chapter. Each
chapter is interesting and have some or types of advice to increase productivity,
waste less time, etc. Easy tips and tricks at end of subtopics which can be
really helpful. Book have provide the real life examples as a support statement
to their facts provided in book. Each chapter plays an important role in
managing time the different ways. It is more trustable because the author of
book have a good amount of experience in his career.
Weakness – as we know that everything thing has
its weakness. So, here we go by weakness of this book. This book was published
15-17 years back. It has provide some advice which people commonly know. There
is practical limitation for applying some of its advice as an IB Student.
Recommendation – As a current IBDP student, I can find
this book is worth for managing the time. If, you follow short tips and trick
of this book then you would see that your stress level with your academics is
reduce and you can do more thing in less time . You can get this from online
ecommerce like amazon, flip kart, etc. second option is that you can get it
from the school library
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