Organizing Your Day

Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

For more than twenty years, Sandra Felton's books have helped countless readers organize their homes, rooms, offices, and paperwork. She now joins forces with professional organizer Marsha Sims and applies some of the same principles to help readers build a successful system for organizing their daily schedules and routines.
Their unique approach with helpful anecdotal stories offers a variety of easy-to-implement, effective ideas. From goal setting, project management, and to-do lists to daily scheduling, creating new habits, and curing chronic lateness, the topics covered in Organizing Your Day will hit home with busy readers. Everyone from creative free-wheelers to well-organized perfectionists will love these solutions. With solutions for both home and work, this book is ideal for office workers, homemakers, business owners, retirees, or anyone who wants to get more out of their days.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• Introduction (p. 9)
• 1 Something Strange Has Happened to Time: Too Many Options (p. 15)
• 2 Complications of Time Management: Being Willing to Make the Necessary Changes (p. 24)
• 3 Change for the Better: Adjustments That Work (p. 33)
• 4 If Things Were Perfect: Set Goals for Your Life (p. 45)
• 5 Handling Activity Clutter: Four Dynamic Methods (p. 54)
• 6 Measure Your Time: Keep a Time Log (p. 66)
• 7 Modern Multitasking: Help and Hindrance (p. 74)
• 8 Perfectionism: Helpful or Harmful? (p. 83)
• 9 Procrastination: Overcoming a Nonproductive Tendency (p. 90)
• 10 Easy Project Management: Getting Started (p. 108)
• 11 Working with Your Projects: The Project Notebook (p. 117)
• 12 To-Do List: Keep on Top of Your Important Activities (p. 124)
• 13 Delegate: Build a Team (p. 131)
• 14 Interruptions: Regain Control of Your Time (p. 142)
• 15 Time Wasters: Take Charge (p. 153)
• 16 Scheduling Routines: An Indispensable Tool (p. 161)
• 17 Daily Scheduling: Move Smoothly through the Day (p. 171)
• 18 Scheduling Tools: Calendars, PDAs, Day Planners (p. 177)
• 19 Chronic Lateness: Understanding and Curing the Problem (p. 187)
• 20 Creating Powerful Habits: Surefire Methods That Work (p. 194)
• 21 Organize Your Space at Home: De-stress Your Life and Free Yourself (p. 203)
• 22 Organize Your Business or Home Office: Ensure Maximum Productivity (p. 215)
• 23 Organize Your Papers: The Joy of Clear Surfaces and Neat Files (p. 225)
• 24 Make the Most of Life: Manage Your Opportunities (p. 235)
• Activities for Ten Time Management Choices (p. 243)
• Resources (p. 265)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

Library Journal Review

Professional organizer Felton and time-management expert Sims have put together this comprehensive book to help readers quickly complete daily tasks so that they will have the time and energy to move on to significant projects. The authors cover all the bases, from discussing personal mental impediments to managing time. The short chapters and interactive text featuring quizzes, bulleted lists, and fill-in charts make the book ideal for time-starved readers looking to get their act together pronto. (c) Copyright 2010. Library Journals LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary of Media Source, Inc. No redistribution permitted.