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Listful Thinking: Using Lists to Be More Productive, Successful and Less Stressed
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Include books by the same authorZen to Done
Leo Babauta · 80 pages
Zen To Done (ZTD) is a system that is at once simple, and powerful, and will help you develop the habits that keep all of your tasks and projects organized, that keep your workday simple and structured, that keep your desk and email inbox clean and clear, and that keep you doing what you need to do, without distractions. This book was written for those who want to get their lives organized and act
The 80/20 Principle: The Secret to Achieving More with Less
Richard Koch · 288 pages
Deep Work: Rules for Focused Success in a Distracted World
Cal Newport · 299 pages
One of the most valuable skills in our economy is becoming increasingly rare. If you master this skill, you'll achieve extraordinary results. Deep work is the ability to focus without distraction on a cognitively demanding task. It's a skill that allows you to quickly master complicated information and produce better results in less time. Deep work will make you better at what you do and provid
What the Most Successful People Do Before Breakfast: And Two Other Short Guides to Achieving More at Work and at Home
Laura Vanderkam · 173 pages
Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind
Jocelyn K. Glei · 253 pages
Ready for Anything: 52 Productivity Principles for Getting Things Done
David Allen · 192 pages
18 Minutes: Find Your Focus, Master Distraction, and Get the Right Things Done
Peter Bregman · 274 pages
Based upon his weekly Harvard Business Review column (which is the most popular column on HBR.com, receiving hundreds of thousands of unique page views a month), 18 Minutes clearly shows how busy people can cut through all the daily clutter and distractions and find a way to focus on those key items which are truly the top priorities in our lives. Bregman works from the premise that the best way t
Never Check E-Mail In the Morning: And Other Unexpected Strategies for Making Your Work Life Work
Julie Morgenstern · 272 pages
Time Management
Brian Tracy · 104 pages
"This pocket-sized guide reveals 21 proven time management techniques you can use immediately to gain two or more productive hours every day. Featuring the strategies that business expert Brian Tracy has identified as the most effective and that he himself employs, this handy volume reveals how you can: Handle endless interruptions, meetings, emails, and phone calls; Identify your key result areas
First Things First
Stephen R. Covey, A. Roger Merrill, Rebecca R. Merrill · 377 pages
An excellent book, following Covey's "The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People.". It is specifically geared to teach time management from a different perspective because it ties the use of time with the deeper aspects of character and life. A first class book by a highly motivated writer and speaker.
Wait, You Need It When?!?: The Essential Guide to Time Management, Productivity, and Powerful Habits That Get Things Done
Peter Economy · 224 pages
The Way We're Working Isn't Working: The Four Forgotten Needs That Energize Great Performance
Tony Schwartz, Jean Gomes, Catherine McCarthy
The Accidental Creative: How to Be Brilliant at a Moment's Notice
Todd Henry · 235 pages
Outlines a method for tapping one's creative potential in order to generate ideas without undue stress, providing coverage of such strategies as beginning with an end goal in mind, and managing energy efficiently.
The Procrastination Equation: How to Stop Putting Things Off and Start Getting Stuff Done
Piers Steel · 324 pages
If you think you are not one of the 95% of us who procrastinates, take Dr. Steel's test. Based on more than a decade of research, and written with humor, humanity, and solid science, this book offers answers to such questions as: Are we biologically hardwired to procrastinate. If so, why? Is there a difference between procrastination and prudence? What tricks do we play on ourselves when we procra
The 12 Week Year: Get More Done in 12 Weeks Than Others Do in 12 Months
Brian P. Moran, Michael Lennington · 208 pages
Explains how to drive productivity and increase results by behaving as though a year was twelve weeks instead of months, resulting in focusing on the more urgent tasks and affording little time for complacency.
Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less
Greg McKeown · 272 pages
Essentialism isn't about getting more done in less time. It's about getting only the right things done. Have you ever found yourself stretched too thin? Do you simultaneously feel overworked and underutilized? Are you often busy but not productive? Do you feel like your time is constantly being hijacked by other people's agendas? If you answered yes to any of these, the way out is the Way of the E
The 4-Hour Workweek
Timothy Ferriss · 308 pages
The New York Times bestselling how-to and why-to guide to throwing out the old tools and methods for success and replacing them with a whole new way of living Tim Ferriss has trouble defining what he does for a living. Depending on when you ask this controversial Princeton University guest lecturer, he might answer:'I race motorcycles in Europe' 'I ski in the Andes' 'I scuba dive in Panama' 'I
The Power of Full Engagement: Managing Energy, Not Time, Is the Key to High Performance and Personal Renewal
Jim Loehr, Tony Schwartz · 256 pages
The One Thing: The Surprisingly Simple Truth Behind Extraordinary Results
Gary Keller, Jay Papasan · 240 pages
The Power of Habit: Why We Do What We Do in Life and Business
Charles Duhigg · 385 pages
A young woman walks into a laboratory. Over the past two years, she has transformed almost every aspect of her life. She has quit smoking, run a marathon, and been promoted at work. The patterns inside her brain, neurologists discover, have fundamentally changed. Marketers at Procter & Gamble study videos of people making their beds. They are desperately trying to figure out how to sell a new prod