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Overview of Take Back Your Time by Jan Jasper
Few people plan their time. We make decisions based upon habit, other people's expectations, advertisements, and indecision caused by having too many choices. We squander our time because we don't make deliberate decisions about how to live our lives.
The secret of effective time management is to clarify what matters most, so we can decide what to stop doing. By eliminating fuzzy priorities, and by learning to say "no", we can reduce stress and accomplish a lot more with our lives.
Software developers and Jan Jasper's Take Back Your Time
Neatness is not the same as organization. We can neatly save paper we don't need. We can be very orderly about visiting marginally useful Usenet groups every day. But true organization involves setting priorities and making conscious choices.
You have to determine how you want to spend your time, and create a plan that ensures that you're doing the right things.
The book has chapters on managing your desktop, creating folders, and managing a to-do list. You can identify and use your peak times to do the challenging parts of software development, and use your laid-back time to work on routine matters that have to get done, too.
There are tips on managing your time at work, eliminating procrastination, dealing with the clutter associated with having too much stuff, and surviving information overload. For example, reading back-issues of this newsletter might be a better use of your time than monitoring newsgroups with marginal payback.
The chapter on taming technology is one that software developers can skip with no danger of missing anything vital. But there are a lot of good insights in the chapters on managing a corporate office, a home office, travel time, and personal time.
Should mISVs and developers read Take Back Your Time?
I found the book to be very useful. I needed to be reminded that it's easy to say "no", and that setting priorities is incredibly important. This 250-page book is an easy read, and reading it is a good use of your time. You'll find additional time that you can spend on your software marketing.
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