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by Robin Sharma
15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management summary
Kevin Kruse
The Productivity Habits of 7 Billionaires, 13 Olympic Athletes, 29 Straight-A Students, and 239 Entrepreneurs.
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15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management (2015) reveals the secrets of time management used by billionaires, Olympic athletes, honor students and entrepreneurs. These blinks are a guide to extreme productivity that won’t wear you out.
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Kevin Kruse is a New York Times best-selling author. His first failed business venture occurred at 22, but instead of giving up, he went on to build several multimillion-dollar companies. He’s now a Forbes leadership columnist and keynote speaker on time management.
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Time is your greatest asset and should be spent wisely.
Do you ever wish you could have an extra hour in the day to read, exercise or hang out with the people you love? Well, you can and there’s no magic required! But first, you need to understand how precious time is.
That’s why the first secret of time management is learning that time is your most valuable asset and that, once it’s lost, you can never get it back. A good way to monitor this precious resource is by breaking it down. For instance, there are 1,440 minutes in a day, each of which should be invested wisely.
To remind himself of this fact, the author taped a “1,440” poster to his office door. It reminds him of the limited time in each day.
But why use minutes? Why not think about the 86,400 seconds that every day offers?
Well, there are a bunch of daily tasks that you can actually do in a minute, like knocking out 30 sit-ups, reading a poem or watering a plant. This fact makes minutes key to monitoring your time.
Okay, now that you appreciate how valuable time is, it’s time to start prioritizing it. This is where the second secret comes in: determine and prioritize your most important task, or your MIT. This is the single task that will have the biggest impact on your life or work.
Just take Therese Macan, a professor at the University of Missouri-St Louis. She found that one of the most important productivity determinants is the ability to identify priorities. So pinpointing an MIT is central to time management.
For instance, if a senior executive sets a goal of developing a new app, her MIT might be to hire a new programmer. Or the MIT for a start-up CEO could be to prepare a great presentation to land a major investment. Research has shown that having a daily MIT, whatever it is, results in greater levels of happiness and improved focus.
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Who should read 15 Secrets Successful People Know About Time Management
- High achievers who want to spend more time to exercising, reading or with their family
- Procrastinators everywhere
- Employees who feel overworked or overwhelmed at the end of each day
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