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The First 2 Hours
Make Better Use of Your Most Valuable Time
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Do your most important work when you are your most resourceful.
Are you drowning in email? Overloaded with calendar invitations? Frustrated by wasteful meetings and an ever-growing workload? Then you know that being busy does not mean being productive. Most workers are being asked to take on more responsibilities with less support, advised to simply βbe innovative.β But you only have a finite amount of energy and thinking capacity available to you in a day. Most of us are wasting it on things that aren't contributing to our most important work: the activities that require problem solving, decision making and critical thinking.
Developed for business professionals, The First 2 Hours teaches you how to design your day, rather than be at the mercy of it. Using research on neuroscience, energy flow and the bodyβs natural rhythms, it divides the workday into manageable blocks and helps you determine when you are most resourceful, and therefore, when you should complete your most demanding tasks.
- Optimize your day in blocks of two hours
- Take back control of your work life by creating a workflow designed for you
- Do your most important work at the right time of day so it gets the resources it deserves
- Decide when you need to be βonβ and when you can be βavailableβ so you can maximise productivity
In a time of near-constant information overload, this practical handbook helps you focus on getting done what you need to get done, when you are best able to do it. By learning to invest your energy strategically, you can be in the driverβs seat every workday and achieve a level of productivity beyond what you thought possible.
The First 2 Hours is the second book in Donna McGeorgeβs Itβs About Time series. With The 25-Minute Meeting, youβll learn to give your meetings purpose and stop them wasting your time; with The First 2 Hours, youβll find the best time of the day to do your most productive work; and with The 1-Day Refund, youβll discover how to give yourself the extra capacity to think, breathe, live and work.
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ISBN: 9780730359593
Publisher: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Format: Paperback / softback
Date Published: 08 March 2019
Country: Australia
Imprint: John Wiley & Sons Australia Ltd
Audience: General / adult, Professional and scholarly
DIMENSIONS
Spine width: 13.0mm
Width: 140.0mm
Height: 216.0mm
Weight: 204g
Pages: 176
About the Author
DONNA McGEORGE is the productivity coach. She is obsessed with helping people make their work work. She uses a creative and practical approach to improve workplace efficacy and challenges traditional thinking on leadership, productivity, and working smarter.
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