No B.S. Time Management Book Review

Recently I finished reading Dan Kennedy's "No B.S. Time Management for Entrepreneurs, the Ultimate No Holds Barred Kick Butt, Take No Prisoners, Guide to Time Productivy and Sanity".  The title is quite a mouthful, and a bit flashy, but the author's content is worth the read.

Since many of my clients and friends are not business owners, I wanted to extract the bits most relevant to both leaders, employees, and business owners. 

• Kennedy takes you through a series of steps on how to value your time in dollars.  The punchline...your time is worth a lot more than you think, treat it as your most valuable resource.
• Increase your productivy by "getting lost".  Kennedy provides an example of a businessman who rented a small office neither at his home office or onsite work office.  In this example, the man was not productive in either of the typical settings because of frequent interruptions.  His third office provided him with the opportunity to harnesh his producitvty zone.  Find your "third office", whether this be home, a closed door office, conference room, library or coffee shop.
• Link everything you do to your goals - multiple times per day.  He recommends frequently asking yourself, "Is what I am doing, this minute, moving me measurably closer to my goals"?  A >50% "Yes" rate is your benchmark, strive to constantly push this percentage higher.
• Delegate and then keep yourself out of the way. Kennedy has a little saying when delegating, "Good enough is often good enough", meaning often the delegator will have a better way of doing things or at least believe he does.  By stepping out of the way, and letting the results materialize, you will often find the results are indeed good enough.
• Reasons why a year passes and no meaningful progress is made.  This final chapter is the most poignent.  Write down the 3-5 most important, highest value, daily tasks that will return big dividends.  Make yourself do at least one of these tasks every day without fail.  This may require some serious self-discipline, tossing out old ideas and re-arranging your daily routine, but Kennedy points this single disiplice out as the number one factor of personal and career success.

For more material on Dan Kennedy see www.dankennedy.com