The best 100 Time Management books

The Power of Less introduces Leo Babauta’s ideal of productive minimalism. His approach focuses mainly on the development of good habits as the key to long-term changes.

• Anyone interested in learning how to achieve more by working less
• Anyone who wants to learn what productive minimalism could be like
• Anyone who feels overwhelmed by their life

The ONE Thing (2013) helps you to discover your most important goal, and gives you tools to ensure you can use your time productively to get there. The book reveals that many of the maxims we accept as good practice are actually myths that only hinder our progress. It also provides advice on how to live your life with priority, purpose and productivity without sending other aspects of life out of balance, because this is the way to perform the kind of focused work that leads to great success.

• Anyone looking to improve their productivity
• Anyone who has trouble finding time to commit to their goal
• Anyone looking for greater clarity and purpose in their daily life

The 80/20 Principle (1997) was named one of GQ's Top 25 Business Books of the Twentieth Century. It's about the 80/20 principle, which says that 80 percent of results are generated by just 20 percent of effort. This phenomenon has huge implications for every area of life, as it helps single out the most important factors in any situation.

• Anyone who wants to get better results without expending more time
• Anyone who wants to free up more of their time and lead a happier life
• Anyone who wants to increase the profitability of their business

This title provides you with valuable insights and guidelines that will help you focus your life on the things that are truly the most meaningful. You’ll learn how to set your priorities, make the best decisions, and develop a keen vision for the future. If you’re looking to create positive change in your life, this book is a great place to start!

• Anyone who feels a lack of inner peace, balance or meaning in life
• Anyone who wants to use his or her time more effectively
• Anyone who has a hard time making big decisions
• Anyone who wants to improve the quality of his or her life

Manage Your Day-To-Day is a collection of ideas, wisdom and tips from well-known creative people. It offers readers valuable insights on how to develop effective work routines, stay focused and unleash their creativity.

• Anyone who needs to be creative every day
• Anyone who is interested in how to be more productive at work
• Anyone who wants to get more enjoyment out of their creative work

Eat That Frog! is all about overcoming procrastination and learning to manage your time. It’s normal to feel drowned in work, but when you learn to “eat your frogs” – meaning do your most important tasks first – you’ll work more efficiently and be happier too.

• Procrastinators anonymous
• Anyone with a goal to achieve
• Those overwhelmed by all the work they have to do

18 Minutes (2011) is a helpful guide to getting things done by focusing on meaningful work, reaching goals and preventing distractions. These blinks will show how to identify the kind of work that is right for you and how to stay on track and hit your targets.

• People who want to get things done
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed with work
• Anyone searching for happiness and meaning in their lives

The Productivity Project (2016) is a practical guide to how to live a life that’s both productive and meaningful. With easy-to-understand techniques and reliable advice, you’ll find out how to work smarter and accomplish the work that really matters. Stop wasting time and procrastinating, and pick up some new tools to take control of your life!

• Students looking for new ways to be productive
• Overworked employees
• Busy or stressed-out entrepreneurs and business owners

What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast (2013) is a guide to the early hours. Packed with useful tips drawn from the lives of today’s highfliers, it lays out an actionable plan that’ll help you design and implement your perfect morning routine. Do that, and you’ll find time for the things that matter most to you. Even better – once you’ve mastered a few time-management skills and revolutionized your mornings, you’ll be set to boost your work performance and get the most out of your weekends.

• Managers
• Parents
• Entrepreneurs
• Busy bees

Make Time (2018) promises the seemingly impossible, then actually delivers the goods. These blinks will help you do exactly what the title suggests: make more time. Of course, there are only so many hours in the day, and you can’t generate more of them. What they do provide, though, is an insightful diagnosis of how and why you lose your time to busyness and distractions along with a highly personalizable strategy and a generous buffet of practical tactics for reclaiming it, allowing you to do the things you really want to do in life.

• Professionals who feel frazzled by the busyness of modern life
• Social media and smartphone users who feel like their devices and apps own them, rather than the other way around
• Quarter, mid and late-life crisis sufferers who sense their lives are slipping by in a busy, distracted blur

Off the Clock (2018) gives practical advice on how to get more out of your time, from freeing up your busy schedule to achieving more work in shorter intervals. Using personal anecdotes as well as scientific insights, Vanderkam explores why some of us feel like we have all the time in the world, while others feel as though time is slipping through their fingers.

In an exclusive blink, Laura Vanderkam explains what you can do today to feel less busy and get more done.

• Anyone struggling with time management
• Workaholics looking for productivity tips
• Psychology enthusiasts looking for new insights

Indistractable (2019) addresses one of modern life’s most common problems – distraction, often blamed on contemporary technology. Nir Eyal, however, claims that while smartphones and apps might get in the way of more meaningful work, they are not the root cause of the issue. So what is? In these blinks, Eyal provides an actionable four-part framework that breaks down how distraction really works and what you can do to overcome it. 

• Anyone who has ever given-in to procrastination and distraction at one time or another
• Self-starters set on cultivating better habits 
• Parents worried about their kids’ relationship with tech

The 3 Secrets to Effective Time Investment (2013) is a practical guide to living a life by design instead of impulse. It provides step-by-step strategies for planning your days around the commitments that really matter to you, setting up effective routines, and finding people to help you stay on track. It also reveals the importance of dealing with emotional baggage like guilt and shame, which can derail even the best-laid plans.

• Freelancers desperate for more structure in their days
• Workaholics who need help learning to switch off
• Over-optimistic schedulers who try to cram too much in

#Upcycle Your Job (2019) presents a six-step approach to finding the perfect work-life balance. Although geared toward working mothers, this method can be used by anyone looking to get more out of life without making career sacrifices in the process.

• Working parents looking to rearrange their work-life balance
• Employers seeking to optimize workplace efficiency and output
• Professional women striving to maximize their career prospects

The Joy of Missing Out (2019) focuses on how we can eliminate stress from our lives and improve our productivity. It contains actionable strategies for simplifying our lives and identifying our priorities.

• Those who struggle to manage their time effectively
• Individuals who have a hard time saying no
• Women of all ages and all stages of life

168 Hours (2010) provides a revolutionary strategy to manage your time. Author Laura Vanderkam has discovered that successful people have a unique mindset, one that helps them fit everything they value into their week. By learning to time-manage like they do, you can free yourself from the daily grind and focus on what really matters. 

• Employees trapped in demanding and unfulfilling jobs
• Parents who want more quality time with their kids
• Creatives struggling to pursue their dreams

The Bullet Journal Method (2018) by Ryder Carroll breaks down bullet journaling: the planning and productivity system your most organized friend is definitely already using. Use bullet journaling to clarify, prioritize, schedule, and reflect on your tasks and goals. You’ll never miss an appointment or lose track of a great idea again. 

• People who write to-do lists but never seem to finish them
• Productivity pros keen to try the system that’s revolutionized personal planning
• Dreamers who want to turn vague plans into a reality

The First 2 Hours (2019) is a must-read design guide for learning how to rethink and optimize your working day. While we’re all overloaded with emails and event invites, all this bustle doesn’t equate to productivity. The First 2 Hours combines both scientific research and an understanding of the body’s rhythms to help you redesign the structure of your work life.

• Productivity and efficiency nerds looking for an extra edge
• Managers interested in helping their employees up their impact
• Anyone struggling to meet all of their responsibilities

The Science of Living (2020) explores the science behind things you do every day and debunks some of the common myths that shape your habits. By doing this, it seeks to help you plan your days better, so that you can live a healthier, happier, and more productive life.

• Anyone interested in living a healthier, happier life
• Those looking to squeeze as much out their days as possible
• Workaholics, insomniacs, and oversleepers

Employee to Entrepreneur (2018) demonstrates how to transition from the mentality of an employee to that of an entrepreneur. It shows how you can pursue purpose in your work while avoiding the pitfalls that most first-time entrepreneurs encounter. With practical strategies for launching and testing your ideas, this exploration of the entrepreneurial mindset proves that anyone can find fulfillment in work and in life when equipped with the right tools and attitude.

• Unsatisfied employees who want to quit their day job and start a business
• New entrepreneurs seeking practical advice on how to launch a startup
• Anyone who wishes to find more fulfillment in their work

Do What Matters Most (2021) is a guide to managing your time more efficiently. It will help you boost performance and stay focused on what matters most. This pack offers a whole bag of tricks, such as developing a personal vision, setting annual goals, and following a weekly list of priorities.

• Executives and managers who want to become better leaders
• Employees and professionals who want to boost productivity
• People seeking a step-by-step process for time management

How to Fix Meetings (2021) is a guide for turning long and ineffective meetings into well-designed sessions that encourage collaboration and produce results. From defining a meeting’s purpose to helping people get started on their tasks, How to Fix Meetings outlines the best ways to get the most out of any meeting.

• Leaders who want to change their organizations’ meeting culture 
• Facilitators who want to run better meetings
• Anyone fed up with ineffective meetings

The Procrastination Cure (2017) is an invaluable resource for anyone who's prone to procrastination. Beginning with an accessible guide to the underlying causes that contribute to procrastination, it then offers simple, proven strategies for conquering the urge to procrastinate, boosting productivity, and working optimally to meet personal and professional goals.

• Those who have difficulty starting new tasks or completing tasks on time
• People who want to stop scrolling endlessly through social media sites
• Chronic procrastinators who are ready to kick the habit

Four Thousand Weeks (2021) explores concepts of time and time management, arguing that our modern attempts to optimize our time leave us stressed and unhappy. Drawing upon the work of ancient and contemporary philosophers, psychologists, and spiritual leaders, this book proposes a path to cultivating a fulfilling life through embracing our limitations.

• Time management gurus
• Philosophy students
• Aspiring creatives and entrepreneurs

Find Your Unicorn Space (2021) opens the door to an important conversation about what makes us unique as individuals and offers a guide to discovering, claiming, and growing your creative interests.

• Women who give too much
• Creatives who don’t have time to create
• Recovering workaholics, martyrs, people pleasers, and moms

The Power of Pressure (2021) takes a deep dive into the world of pressure in all its forms, and how high performers deal with it. By noticing the patterns of both single, peak pressure moments and pressure over the long haul, it’ll provide you with a practical set of tools to start using pressure to your advantage.

• Workers feeling overwhelmed by the daily grind
• Productivity hackers looking to boost performance under pressure
• Anyone who has ever been stressed out

Attention Span (2023) examines the connection between the digital age and our capacity for attention. As digital devices have become inextricable from our lives, our attention spans have shortened and our stress levels have risen. Drawing on scientific research, it debunks modern myths about attention and explains how we can reclaim it for better well-being. 

• Anyone worried about their decreasing attention span
• Those who have trouble disconnecting from their phone
• People who feel stressed, exhausted, and burned out

Tranquility by Tuesday (2022) is a practical guide to scheduling and organizing your time, week by week, to have a more peaceful and productive life. Through tips, anecdotes, and guided questions, you can regain control and improve your quality of life.

• Parents juggling family obligations and personal time
• Busy professionals who want to find more tranquility in their days
• Anyone seeking to become more organized and make more time for themselves

In Kurashi at Home (2022), interior organization expert Marie Kondo invites readers to conceptualize their ideal kurashi, or lifestyle. Kondo then shows how, through interacting with and optimizing their living spaces, readers can achieve our idea of kurashi. 

• People who’d like to live more mindfully in their space
• KonMari fans eager for more life-changing advice
• Anyone who wants to live their ideal lifestyle at home

Cluttered Mess to Organized Success (2018) is a powerful organizational guide full of advice and actionable tips to help you better organize your life and home.

• Parents who want to get their families more organized
• People seeking to manage their time better
• Busy professionals craving a cleaner, calmer home

Procrastination (1983) is a deep dive into procrastination – and why people struggle with it. Drawing on personal and professional experience, it offers a tested program and tips on how to conquer procrastination tendencies.

• People seeking to understand why they procrastinate
• Compulsive procrastinators looking for ways to improve
• Friends or family of procrastinators who want to help

Redeeming Your Time (2021) offers practical, faith-based guidance to help you make the most of your precious time and focus on what truly matters. Drawing on inspiring stories and biblical wisdom, this powerful resource equips you to prioritize your tasks, develop meaningful habits, and ultimately live a more purposeful life. 

• Busy professionals seeking work-life balance
• Faith-driven individuals pursuing purposeful living
• Time management enthusiasts seeking fresh insights

Beyond Tidy (2020) provides you with a clear set of eight principles to follow in order to declutter, organize, and tidy your home. With this tried and true method, you’ll save time, money, energy, and space. Along the way, you’ll also develop a positive growth mindset and get your life under control.

• Untidy people looking for some order in their lives
• Anyone looking to save time, money, energy, and space
• People who want to change their mindset to become organized

Buy Back Your Time (2023) teaches entrepreneurs how to hire the right people for the right tasks, so they can free up the time they need to build their empire. Practical advice and success stories guide those who feel stuck in their busy lives out of the tedium of small chores and into the limitless field of pure production.

• Entrepreneurs who are looking to scale their business
• Anyone who feels stuck in the daily grind of work
• Managers trying to find ways to inspire employees

The Clutter Connection (2019) explains the root cause behind your cluttered space. It delves into the four different organizing personality styles and offers easy-to-follow, tailored suggestions for organizing your home based on your distinct style.

• Messy people wanting to organize their spaces
• Moms looking to declutter their homes
• Anyone drowning in clutter

The Greatness Mindset (2023) is a powerful guide to unlocking your full potential and living your best life. With personal stories, transformational strategies, and step-by-step guidance, you'll learn how to define your purpose, conquer self-doubt, and start your journey toward a rich, abundant future.

• Self-reinventors
• Ambitious millennials
• Goal-oriented achievers

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective Teens (2011) invites teenagers to begin taking charge of their lives by teaching them seven habits that help them thrive and will set them up for a successful future. 

• Parents and guardians of teens
• Teachers and other role models
• Leadership coaches

Saving Time (2023) takes a deep dive into the complicated concepts surrounding time and the multitude of ways it can be experienced. Combining historical research, philosophical ideas, and social commentary, it offers new approaches to perceiving time that can help us learn to truly live in the present while looking toward a more hopeful future.

• Anyone curious about the concept of time
• People suffering from a lack of time or burnout
• Fans of history, science, and philosophy

Successful Time Management (2003) is a practical guide containing tools and techniques to improve workflow productivity. It offers time-saving and actionable advice that will help you organize projects, delegate tasks, and select priorities in the workplace.

• Office workers looking to get ahead
• Managers who want to increase employee productivity
• Those struggling with their own time management

Strategic Project Management Made Simple (2009) is a guide outlining how to develop clear and impactful strategies for projects of all sizes. It offers a practical framework for managing stakeholders, reducing risk, and building in learning cycles so you can adapt plans amid changing conditions.

• Executives and strategic planners
• Project managers
• Business owners and entrepreneurs

Smart Brevity (2022) offers a guide to effective communication in an age of information overload. It emphasizes the importance of conveying ideas succinctly and clearly and provides practical strategies to streamline communication across various platforms, from emails and meetings to presentations and social media.

• Professionals seeking effective communication skills
• Entrepreneurs in digital media and journalism
• Anyone interested in concise writing techniques

Level Up (2023) is a practical guide to help you move from inaction to taking focused steps to achieve your goals and dreams. It reveals the reasons behind inaction and offers strategies to stop spinning your wheels and start taking meaningful action.  

• Individuals seeking practical strategies to overcome inaction.
• People aspiring to improve focus and productivity.
• Anyone interested in personal development and self-improvement.

How to Manage Your Home Without Losing Your Mind (2016) offers practical, reality-based strategies to take control of household chaos without relying on perfection. It will guide you through small, consistent habits that reduce clutter and make cleaning manageable, helping you to create a functional and peaceful home. With humor and honesty, it emphasizes actionable steps to transform overwhelming mess into order.

• Busy parents balancing endless tasks and household chaos
• Overwhelmed individuals feeling paralyzed by clutter and perfectionism
• Time-strapped professionals seeking functional home routines

How to Stop Procrastinating (2017) offers practical strategies to overcome the habit of delaying tasks. It provides insights into the psychological triggers behind procrastination and outlines actionable steps to foster better productivity and time management skills. The guide is designed to help you implement these techniques to achieve immediate and lasting results.

• Students struggling with time management
• Professionals facing deadline and project pressures
• Writers and creatives battling with blocks

Feel-Good Productivity (2023) presents an unconventional approach to getting more done: prioritizing enjoyment and well-being. Through the dual lens of science and philosophy, it explains why we struggle with low energy, procrastination, and burnout, then offers a series of fun mini-experiments to help you boost your mood, output, and ultimately, success.

• High-achievers seeking a more balanced approach to work and life
• Entrepreneurially-minded students and professionals
• Anyone interested in holistic lifestyle design

The Art of Laziness (2024) is a transformative guide to improving your productivity, offering practical strategies for personal and professional growth. Through the dual focus of mindset and action, it teaches you how to overcome procrastination, harness your best work, and realize your full potential. 

• Anyone who wants to kick the lazy habit 
• Those who seem to work hard but go nowhere
• People looking for their first self-help book

The 3.3 Rule (2020) offers a unique perspective on productivity and work-life balance. It presents the “3.3 Rule” – which advocates for working a maximum of three hours at a time, succeeded by breaks amounting to 30% of the work duration. This groundbreaking approach aims to rebuild conventional work patterns, fostering productivity and employee satisfaction.

• Corporate leaders 
• Productivity enthusiasts 
• Work-life balance seekers

Slow Productivity (2024) offers a transformative philosophy for achieving meaningful accomplishment while avoiding overload. It critiques the broken definition of productivity that leads to overwhelming task lists and burnout, proposing a more sustainable alternative inspired by history's creative thinkers. Drawing on examples from Galileo to Jane Austen, it presents the principles of "slow productivity", offering practical advice for escaping overload and pursuing long-term quality in work.

• Stressed knowledge workers overwhelmed by pointless admin
• Burnt-out professionals who’ve lost their creative spark
• Managers who want to see real results from their teams

SYSTEMology (2020) explores the critical importance of creating and implementing efficient systems in businesses to improve productivity and ensure consistency. It provides a step-by-step guide for business owners and managers to design processes that automate and streamline operations to reduce reliance on individual team members and enhance overall performance.

• Entrepreneurs looking to reduce hands-on involvement
• Small business owners seeking to scale or sell
• Business consultants specializing in systems improvement

Uptime (2024) is your roadmap to mastering productivity and achieving a harmonious work-life balance. It guides you through establishing a system for managing priorities, whether in a work environment or your personal life, so you’ll never again feel overwhelmed by your to-do list. Find more time for yourself, make technology work for you, and experience a sense of calm accomplishment in all facets of your existence.

• Busy professionals seeking work-life balance
• Entrepreneurs looking to align their actions with their goals
• Overwhelmed individuals craving intentional living

Speed Reading (2018) reveals how to dramatically increase your reading speed without sacrificing comprehension or retention. It delves into your brain’s and eyes’ natural capabilities to process more words in less time and offers practical strategies and exercises beyond mere skimming and scanning. Through innovative techniques, it promises to enhance your reading speed and improve your focus, memory, and understanding.

• Curious minds eager to devour more books
• Busy professionals aiming to boost their productivity
• Students looking for a way to improve comprehension and retention

Remote Work Revolution (2021) unveils a roadmap for thriving in an era of virtual organizations, addressing the most pressing challenges facing remote teams and their managers. Drawing on evidence-based insights and practical strategies, this guide empowers leaders and employees to foster trust, productivity, and innovation in the digital workplace.

• Business leaders seeking to optimize their remote work strategies
• Managers of virtual teams striving to maintain productivity and collaboration
• Employees transitioning to remote work environments looking to thrive in their roles

Life Leverage (2016) provides a model for taking full control of your time, energy, and priorities to balance work and free time effectively. By applying leverage principles like outsourcing, automation, and fusing your passion with your profession, you can maximize income while minimizing wasted effort and unhappiness. 

• Nine-to-five workers ready to break free from the grind
• Freelancers keen to flex their skills and scale their businesses
• Founders and entrepreneurs who want to leverage their time and assets

The Power of When (2016) presents a groundbreaking program that demonstrates how aligning with your body’s natural rhythm can optimize your productivity, health, and well-being. With engaging quizzes, practical advice, and fascinating facts, it allows you to discover your own chronotype and unlock your hidden potential by identifying the best times for daily activities.

• Productivity enthusiasts and life hackers
• Health-conscious individuals and wellness advocates
• Anyone struggling with their sleep or daily routines

Sovereign (2024) explores how people can take back their freedom and learn to truly value themselves. It offers science-backed strategies to break free from self-destructive patterns and beliefs, aiming to help readers live more authentic, fulfilling lives. Using real-life examples of people who hold an inner sovereignty, it addresses how readers, too, can reclaim sovereignty over their work, family, body, and mind.

• Self-improvement aficionados looking for growth strategies
• Burned-out professionals needing guidance
• People battling with self-doubt and low self-esteem

MicroSkills (2024) offers a deep dive into how small, specific skills can significantly enhance your personal and professional growth. Learn to break down complex goals into manageable actions, from building professional resilience through self-care to transforming workplace conflicts into opportunities for success.

• Aspiring moguls seeking corporate finesse
• Self-improvement fans craving everyday success
• Career climbers championing small changes

The Science of Getting Started (2019) delves into the psychological and biological underpinnings of procrastination, offering a comprehensive analysis of why we delay tasks. It provides practical, science-based solutions to overcome these tendencies, helping you enhance your productivity and achieve your goals by understanding and defeating your inner procrastination triggers.

• Chronic procrastinators struggling to find solutions
• Self-improvement enthusiasts seeking better habits
• Busy professionals seeking productivity tips

Anatomy of a Breakthrough (2024) uncovers the secrets to overcoming obstacles and creative blocks by looking at human nature and the habits of successful performers, thinkers, and creatives. It offers practical strategies that will break through barriers and transform your own habits by mastering the balance between experimentation and action.

• Anyone suffering from a creative block
• Individuals seeking practical strategies to overcome career obstacles
• Those interested in developing resilience and finding innovative solutions to life's greatest challenges

Focal Point (2022) delves into the secrets of high achievers, revealing how they identify their focal point to achieve optimal results in various aspects of their lives. It offers a comprehensive guide to personal management, helping you analyze your life, set focused goals, and create plans for success, ultimately achieving both professional success and personal satisfaction.

• Time management and productivity enthusiasts
• Career-driven individuals seeking work-life balance
• Business leaders, entrepreneurs, and potential high achievers

The Busy Brain Cure (2024) unveils a groundbreaking approach to addressing the interconnected symptoms of insomnia, anxiety, and adult ADD/ADHD. With an eight-week protocol designed to heal chronic stress and burnout, it’s a guide for high performers looking to improve focus, sleep quality, and overall well-being without relying on conventional stimulants or diets.

• High-performing professionals experiencing burnout or chronic stress
• Individuals struggling with anxiety, insomnia, or adult ADD/ADHD symptoms
• People seeking natural, non-pharmaceutical approaches to mental health

Start Now. Get Perfect Later. (2018) offers a kick in the butt to anyone coping with procrastination and perfectionism. With actionable advice on decision-making, time management, and leveraging intuition, it empowers readers to start taking steps toward their goals today, rather than waiting for an ideal moment that may never come.

• Anyone in need of motivation
• People struggling with a fear of failure
• Entrepreneurs with a good idea but little confidence

One Second Ahead (2016) explores how mindfulness can enhance productivity, focus, and well-being in the modern workplace. It provides practical tools and techniques for training your brain to manage distractions and pressures more effectively, leading to better time-management, communication, and overall job satisfaction.

• Corporate leaders seeking to improve team productivity
• Professionals struggling with stress and multitasking
• Individuals aiming to enhance their work-life balance

Hyperefficient (2024) explores the challenge facing knowledge workers expected to deliver high outputs reminiscent of industrial-era efficiency in the modern, technology-driven workplace. It argues that the key tasks of idea generation, complex problem-solving, and learning require a new approach to productivity. It suggests tailoring work patterns to natural cognitive rhythms, thereby creating a more sustainable and effective way of working that aligns with how our brains naturally function.

• Knowledge workers seeking sustainable productivity methods
• Leaders aiming to enhance team efficiency
• Anyone interested in neuroscience-based performance improvement

The 80/20 CEO (2024) presents a comprehensive operating system for business leadership. It offers a strategic framework designed to help executives guide their organizations toward profitable growth, emphasizing efficiency in achieving business objectives.

• Entrepreneurs looking to create and scale their businesses
• CEOs and executives of struggling or underperforming companies
• Business consultants specializing in turnarounds and growth strategy

Meditation for Mortals (2024) offers a refreshing approach to navigating life’s messy reality, urging us to stop waiting for perfection and start fully living in the present. Through thought-provoking insights and relatable examples, you’ll see how embracing imperfection can lead to deeper fulfillment, peace, and connection. Now’s the time to let go of endless striving and find joy and meaningful work in the here and now.

• Self-improvement seekers
• Overthinkers looking for ways to embrace imperfection
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed by endless to-do lists

The PLAN (2024) offers a refreshing and compassionate perspective on time management, emphasizing integration and intentionality over mindless optimization and productivity. Using the PLAN – Prepare, Live, Adjust, and Notice – approach, readers are equipped to accomplish what matters most in each season of life. 

• Individuals who have struggled with traditional time management advice 
• Anyone overwhelmed by productivity culture and craving a simpler approach
• Working parents juggling work and home demands 

Team (2024) reveals how to elevate group productivity, streamline collaboration, and reduce stress for everyone involved. Packed with real-world insights from top-performing companies, it equips you with the tools to build a focused, cohesive, and high-performing team. Perfect for today’s evolving workplace, it’s your essential guide to achieving more together.

• Teams seeking better collaboration and productivity gains
• Managers looking to reduce workplace stress and improve efficiency
• Professionals interested in effective, actionable organizational strategies

Work Clean (2016) reveals how the professional kitchen system of mise en place can transform your work and daily life through mindful preparation and purposeful action 

• Freelancers managing their own workflow and client relationships
• Professionals struggling with digital overwhelm or multiple competing deadlines
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed by workplace chaos or seeking more mindful work practices

Toxic Productivity (2024) explores the emotional dynamics behind our relentless drive for achievement, revealing how societal pressures, shame, and perfectionism fuel a cycle of overwork and burnout. It combines research, personal stories, and therapeutic insights to help readers identify and break free from toxic productivity habits. 

• Overworked professionals who need to balance productivity with well-being
• Perfectionists ready to break free from unrealistic standards
• Students who want to manage academic pressure while prioritizing mental health

More Than Pretty Boxes (2024) investigates how professional organizers do far more than just help people tidy up – they reveal fundamental problems with how modern life is structured, especially for women. Through deep examination of the organizing industry, the book shows how struggles with clutter and chaos reflect larger systemic issues, while offering a path forward through both personal and collective change. 

• People who feel overwhelmed by traditional organizing advice
• Curious culture mavens exploring modern work and consumption patterns 
• Anyone interested in minimalism, decluttering, or simple living who wants to understand the deeper psychology behind their relationship with stuff

Make Today Count (2004) presents a comprehensive system for transforming ordinary days into extraordinary achievements by mastering twelve essential elements of daily life. Through practical guidance on attitude, priorities, health, relationships, and values, it shows how good decisions paired with consistent daily actions create lasting positive change. When these elements work together, small steps build into significant and meaningful progress.

• Personal development enthusiasts interested in practical systems for growth
• Busy executives seeking to optimize their daily schedule
• Anyone seeking to create more structured and meaningful days

Why Simple Wins (2017) is for anyone who feels like they’re drowning in endless meetings, redundant processes, and unnecessary complexity at work. It reveals how simplifying your organization can unlock creativity, boost productivity, and bring focus to the work that truly matters. Find out how you can escape the chaos and create a culture of clarity and purpose.

• Corporate leaders and executives
• Managers and team leaders
• Business consultants and entrepreneurs

How to Finish Everything You Start (2019) explores why people struggle to complete tasks and offers practical strategies to help them follow through. It presents a structured approach for overcoming procrastination, perfectionism, and unrealistic expectations. By implementing actionable techniques, readers can improve their productivity and consistently finish what they begin. 

• Overwhelmed professionals seeking to improve task completion
• Ambitious students aiming to manage their workload effectively
• Procrastination-prone goal-setters looking to boost productivity

Work Backwards (2024) explores the common feeling of being overworked and disconnected, suggesting that perhaps we’re all looking at work the wrong way. Instead, it proposes a fresh approach, flipping traditional ideas on their head to help us find a better balance and more fulfillment in our daily work lives. 

• Professionals seeking a better work-life balance
• Entrepreneurs wanting innovative workplace strategies
• Readers interested in modern work culture insights

The 5 AM Miracle (2015) is your guide to maximizing your productivity, focus, and personal growth by designing intentional daily routines. It emphasizes the power of structured mornings but extends beyond wake-up times, offering strategies for setting clear goals, building sustainable habits, and maintaining momentum through systematic tracking. It will help you take control of your time, optimize energy levels, and make consistent progress toward your greatest ambitions.

• Professionals and entrepreneurs looking to maximize their productivity
• Students and lifelong learners building effective habits
• Anyone transitioning to an early morning routine

Tiny Experiments (2025) challenges traditional goal-setting by advocating for a playful, experimental approach to your personal growth. It encourages you to embrace uncertainty through small, low-risk experiments that promote self-discovery and adaptability. By shifting away from rigid objectives, it will help you cultivate a more fulfilling and dynamic way of living.

• Curious experimenters seeking a flexible approach to growth
• Creative thinkers interested in exploring new possibilities
• Open-minded people willing to embrace uncertainty and change

Pig Wrestling (2019) offers a memorable story showing how to approach seemingly impossible problems. Follow a stressed manager guided by an unusual barista through a process for reframing difficulties. The process reveals methods drawn from top performers, helping you handle messy situations with greater clarity.

• Managers seeking fresh ways to handle stubborn team difficulties smoothly
• Anyone feeling blocked by recurring problems in work or life
• People facing complex environments who need clearer thinking tools now

Flip It (2009) introduces a simple but powerful approach to thinking and acting that helps you get the best from any situation. It encourages you to challenge automatic reactions, shift unhelpful habits, and respond with greater clarity, confidence, and control. Whether you’re feeling stuck, stressed, or short on time, it shows how a change in perspective can lead to better outcomes – at work, at home, and in everyday life.

• Professionals aiming to handle challenges with more clarity
• Habit-builders looking to shift mindset and follow through
• Confidence-seekers ready to upgrade their daily thinking

The Productivity Diet (2025) reframes productivity as a sustainable practice built on aligning your time, energy, and attention instead of merely getting more done. Using the three critical ingredients of a productivity diet, it offers a flexible daily rhythm, attention‑management tactics, and reflection rituals that help you work smarter and live more intentionally at work and at home. 

• Anyone wanting to optimize their time, energy, and attention
• Busy professionals seeking better work‑life balance
• Managers aiming to refine team productivity practices

Know Decide Act (2024) is an empowered take on AI’s potential to transform the workplace. It offers practical walkthroughs to move from workflow drudgery to AI enhanced workflows that boost work quality and productivity, along with practical strategies for implementing AI tools across every kind of workplace. 

Want to free up 5 to 20 more hours during the work week? This is the book. You'll learn how to use 20 ai tools that the author uses every week.

• Managers who want to use AI to drive performance and innovation
• Workers keen to retain their edge in an increasingly automated workplace
• Freelancers ready to scale their offering with smart AI tools

AI for Educators (2023) explores how artificial intelligence will fundamentally transform teaching and learning. It serves as a practical handbook to help teachers understand and use AI, while offering classroom strategies and time-saving techniques. It also prepares educators to help students navigate the AI-driven future they will inherit.

• School administrators crafting policies for the era of ChatGPT
• Professors tired of playing detective with student essays
• Teachers drowning in grading who want their evenings back

The Not To Do List (2025) flips productivity advice on its head. Rather than dishing out specific advice for executives or entrepreneurs, it presents a list of things that everyone should avoid – no matter their profession. If you’re ready to clear out mental clutter, reclaim your time, and focus on what really matters, this book will show you the smarter, calmer path forward. 

• Overwhelmed professionals
• Productivity enthusiasts
• Students and lifelong learners

Today Was Fun (2025) is a straight-talking guide for anyone who’s had enough of joyless, grind-it-out workdays. It calls time on the old idea that professionalism means being buttoned-up, overbooked, and running on fumes. Instead, it offers smart, doable ways to make work feel good again – more creative, more human, and a lot more fun.

• ​​People tired of performative busyness
• Leaders looking to create healthier workplaces
• Anyone who wants more joy in their work life

Data (2025) offers a practical framework to move your business from a source of constant anxiety to a predictable and manageable enterprise. You’ll learn to replace gut feelings with objective facts by identifying the few key numbers that give you a true pulse on your company's health. This shift provides the clarity and confidence to lead effectively and achieve the freedom you've been working for.

• Entrepreneurs feeling stuck and overwhelmed by their business
• Leadership teams seeking alignment and objective performance metrics
• Managers who want to empower their teams with clarity

Could Should Might Don’t (2025) examines the mental frameworks people use when contemplating what lies ahead, identifying four distinct approaches that shape our relationship with tomorrow. Rather than making predictions, it analyzes how humans have historically engaged with future-oriented thinking, revealing the strengths and limitations of each mindset. 

• Policy makers and civil society members grappling with complex societal challenges
• Business leaders and entrepreneurs making strategic decisions under uncertainty
• Anyone overwhelmed by conflicting predictions about technology and the future

Nobody Wants Your Sh*t (2023) delivers a profanity-laced wake-up call about clearing out possessions while you still can. It blends irreverent humor alongside actionable decluttering advice, aiming to help you simplify your daily existence and spare loved ones from the burden of your possessions.

• Overwhelmed homeowners facing decades of accumulation
• Those who’ve tried decluttering but keep reaccumulating
• Anyone seeking mental clarity beyond just tidy spaces

Smarter (2024) offers a revolutionary approach to achieving more through strategic productivity, challenging the toxic “busyness” culture that leaves so many ambitious women feeling burnt out. This empowering guide provides clear practical steps to help you reframe your mindset, establish healthy boundaries, and leverage your natural strengths for lasting success on your own terms.

• Ambitious women who feel burnt out from "hustle culture" 
• Entrepreneurs and business leaders looking to optimize their productivity 
• Working mothers juggling career demands with family responsibilities 

Move. Think. Rest. (2025) explores how embracing movement, thought, and restoration can unlock creativity and innovation in everyday work and life. It shows that true productivity is less about constant activity and more about intentionally cycling between execution, imagination, and renewal, offering a framework for harnessing these rhythms to generate fresh ideas and approach challenges with greater clarity.

• Anyone struggling with burnout
• Corporate leaders seeking to boost productivity and innovation 
• Educators designing more engaging learning environments

Finding Focus (2025) is a roadmap for taking back control of your mind in a world that never stops tugging at it. It explains how we can quiet the chaos, strengthen our attention, and reconnect with what really matters. It’s an invitation to slow down, think clearer, and live with more intention – one focused moment at a time.

• Busy professionals
• Wellness seekers interested in holistic habits that sharpen the mind
• Anyone feeling overwhelmed or mentally scattered

Effective Meetings (2025) is a practical guide to making meetings shorter, clearer, and more productive – whether you’re leading them or simply taking part. It offers straightforward habits to cut wasted time, sharpen focus, and turn discussions into real results. Step by step, it shows you how to plan, run, and wrap up meetings that actually get things done.

• People who run or participate in too many unproductive meetings
• Managers looking to improve meeting outcomes
• Anyone overwhelmed by a packed meeting calendar

Digital Exhaustion (2025) explores how everyday digital tools quietly drain your energy by fragmenting attention, distorting social inferences, and amplifying emotional strain. It lays out eight practical rules for reshaping how you use technology so you can reduce burnout, regain focus, and turn your devices into a source of support rather than exhaustion.

• Busy professionals overwhelmed by digital communication and tools
• Leaders and HR teams shaping health tech cultures
• Students and lifelong learners struggling with distraction and burnout

The Art of Less (2025) explores how everyday obstacles stand in the way of meaningful work and slow organizations down. It reveals how unnecessary procedures, projects, and expectations create “sludge” that drains energy and weakens performance – and shows practical ways to clear these barriers so you can focus on what truly matters.

• Leaders facing constant new initiatives
• Teams stuck in complexity
• Professionals seeking clearer, simpler work

The Overthinker’s Guide to Making Decisions (2025) explores why many people get stuck in loops of analysis and doubt, and shows how overthinking often stems from deeper fears and misunderstandings about control, certainty, and failure. It explains how to shift from mental noise to inner clarity so you can make everyday and life-changing decisions with more confidence, ease, and trust in your own judgment.

• Chronically indecisive professionals facing major career choices
• Anxious perfectionists stuck in everyday decision loops
• Thoughtful people seeking a calmer inner compass

Next Play (2025) introduces a simple mindset shift for personal and professional growth: what just happened matters less than what you’re doing right now. It presents practical strategies across seven key areas – from building self-awareness and developing an abundance mindset to mastering basics and strengthening relationships. Rather than chasing external achievements, it shows how fulfillment comes from making intentional daily choices.

• People who know what to do but can’t break old patterns
• High achievers feeling empty despite their external success
• Anyone ready to stop overthinking and start taking action

Intentional (2025) reveals how to achieve your ambitions by aligning your daily actions with what truly matters to you. Drawing on a decade of productivity research and insights from Buddhist philosophy, this guide offers practical strategies for structuring goals, overcoming procrastination, and knowing when to let go of pursuits that don’t serve you. Discover how to transform productivity from a struggle into something that flows naturally from your deepest values.

• Professionals who want to focus their energy on what truly matters
• Goal-setters who struggle to follow through
• Anyone seeking a deeper sense of fulfillment beyond just checking off tasks

Die Empty (2013) is a wake-up call for anyone worried their best ideas are stuck on permanent “someday.” It looks at why capable people and teams drift into comfort and stagnation, and offers a practical framework for putting energy, creativity, and focus to better use each and every day.

• People tired of coasting
• Professionals with unused ideas
• Leaders who want more than busy days

Lateral Thinking for Every Day (2023) teaches how to tackle everyday problems through imaginative approaches that rethink conventional problem-solving methods. Drawing on real-world examples and case studies, it presents practical frameworks and techniques to help you build stronger reasoning skills and enhance creative problem-solving abilities. Through these methods, you can develop fresh perspectives and discover original solutions to your most challenging situations.

• Business leaders and entrepreneurs seeking innovation
• Team managers handling organizational challenges creatively
• Anyone seeking fresh solutions to persistent problems

Learn Like a Lobster (2026) uncovers the surprising synergies between lobsters and being a lifelong professional learner. This guide is filled with strategies inspired by the lobster’s incremental yet impactful approach to growth that show how learning and development can be easily folded into a typical working day. 

• Busy professionals who think they don’t have time to learn
• Prospective career-pivoters unsure where to start their new learning journey
• Lobster lovers!

Beyond Belief (2026) examines the hidden psychological assumptions that shape what you see, how you feel, and whether you act – and makes the case that most of the limits you accept aren’t fixed realities but beliefs you’ve absorbed without questioning. It introduces three distinct powers of belief – attention, anticipation, and agency – and shows how you can develop them. It’s a practical framework for anyone who has quit too soon, stalled without knowing why, or suspected that the real obstacle was internal.

• People stuck in cycles of self-doubt and quitting
• Leaders and entrepreneurs seeking untapped potential
• Anyone managing health challenges or personal belief systems

Make Your Brain Work (2013) is a practical guide to understanding the brain's key systems and how they shape focus, habits, and decision-making. Grounded in neuroscience, it shows how working with your brain's natural architecture rather than against it can transform productivity, emotional regulation, and goal achievement. 

• Those who struggle with organization, bad habits, or emotional dysregulation
• Curious minds wanting to know more about how brain function impacts daily life
• Anyone who wants to achieve more with less effort and work with their brain, not against it