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It’s an unquestioned truth of modern life: we are starved for time. We tell ourselves we’d like to read more, get to the gym regularly, try new hobbies, and accomplish all kinds of goals. But then we give up because there just aren’t enough hours to do it all. Or if we don’t make excuses, we make sacrifices- taking time out from other things in order to fit it all in. There has to be a better way…and Laura Vanderkam has found one. After interviewing dozens of successful, happy people, she realized that they allocate their time differently than most of us. Instead of letting the daily grind crowd out the important stuff, they start by making sure there’s time for the important stuff. When plans go wrong and they run out of time, only their lesser priorities suffer. Vanderkam shows that with a little examination and prioritizing, you’ll find it is possible to sleep eight hours a night, exercise five days a week, take piano lessons, and write a novel without giving up quality time for work, family, and other things that really matter.
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ASIN : 159184410X
Publisher : Portfolio; Reprint edition (May 31 2011)
Language : English
Paperback : 272 pages
ISBN-10 : 9781591844105
ISBN-13 : 978-1591844105
Item weight : 1.05 kg
Dimensions : 14.05 x 1.78 x 21.46 cm
Customers say
Customers find the book inspiring and practical, with useful tools and techniques to manage time. They describe it as a great read and especially suitable for working moms. The author does a good job explaining the methods presented in the book.
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Stephanie –
Especially good book for working moms
I’ve read this book many times and gifted it to friends and clients many more times. It’s rare to find a book on personal development, especially time management from a working mother. Most of the popular books seem to be written by dudes with little home life responsibilities. They have their place but this one really takes the cake for me because it’s that much more relatable. Easily my favourite book on personal development.
Ben J Schmidt –
Don’t have enough hours in a day? Read this book!
I have studied numerous books on time management and even taught time management courses. All books and courses on time management give you tools and systems to help you manage your time. These tools and systems are worthless if you do not apply or use them. I have found if you can make the system and tools appeal to the user there is a much higher chance they will use them. 168 hours takes the approach of budgeting your time. You allocate your time based on your core competencies and the return on investment of your time. This system will appeal to most people because it appeals to the “what is in it for me” factor of most people. It is packed full of practical tips, tools and techniques to help a person not only manage their time better but get more out of each of their 168 hours. Laura does a great job of explaining the methods she presents in her book and admits that she still struggles following some of these methods. Laura does a great job of illustrating each technique with a practical example from the numerous people she interviewed while putting this book together. This takes the book from being a dull and dry textbook to an interesting fun to read book. Although the techniques that are presented in this book may seem simple they are very powerful. Their simplicity makes them easy to use and follow. I highly recommend this book to those who feel there is not enough hours in a day. Most have heard the saying that “Time is money.” I tend to believe time is worth more than money because I can always make more money, I haven’t yet figured out how to make more time. 168 Hours will help you make the most out of your time.
John Mac –
Great read
Some good tools in this book to apply elsewhere…would certainly recommend this book to those that want to see what others have
Dominic Pelletier –
Not a realy time management of work book, more how to pay more for your home task
Not a bad book but ended up being more about personnal time saving then work related book. I get the point, in the end, that to save time, you just hire a made or outsource the laundry but in the end, you have to be able financially to do all those things. Also, was funny how at some point the author slashes a little bit against all time management guru… Feels like personnal opinion took over at some point
Erin –
Inspiring! Practical!
really like how practical the method is! The book is inspiring me to do things differently and feel better about what I do. I think that really is the key… When you feel like what you do is in line and focused on the big picture of what you value you feel happier!!
Caroline Meunier –
Motivating!
This book contains so many practical tips and exemples I want to try right now! Going to start the latest book right now!
Robert Morris –
How to make the most of “the 168-hour mosaic of our lives”
There is no shortage of books on the subject of time management. In fact, the last time I checked, Amazon offers 11,229 of them but not one of them explains how to increase the number of hours within a seven-day period: it is 168, no more and no less. What sets this book apart from the dozens of other books on time management that I have read is the fact that Laura Vanderkam rigorously follows what Albert Einstein recommends: “Make everything as simple as possible…but no simpler.” For example, in the first chapter, she suggests, “Picture a completely empty weekly calendar with its 168 hourly slots.” She then helps her reader to document his or her (the reader’s) current allocation of time. She achieves that objective as well as each of her other primary objectives such as disabusing her reader of major misconceptions about how much time (on average) people spend on sleep, work, and leisure time components. While doing so, she cites real-world examples (i.e. real people in real time) that both illustrate and confirm basic strategies that produce more and more enjoyable as well as better, and achieved sooner, in less time. She also identifies the core competencies that her reader must develop and then leverage to achieve that same objective. She is at her best when explaining how to determine what the “right job” is, what it requires, and how to obtain it.[She cites Teresa Amabile’s admonition, “You should do what you love, and you should love what you do.” If that doesn’t suggest what a “right job” is, I don’t know what does.]Vanderkam also explains how to control investment of time so that “there should be almost nothing during your work hours – whatever you choose those to be – that is not advancing you toward your goals for the career and life you want”; how to determine what the “next level” of personal and professional development looks like and how to “seize control” of the schedule while completing a transition to that level; and what a “breakthrough” is and how to achieve it to expedite the transition process. Vanderkam believes, and I fully agree, that our lives proceed through a series of levels above or below, better or worse than where we were previously; the journey to each should be one of personal discovery; and that it is important to know what we value most but we must realize that priorities change at various points in our lives as circumstances, relationships, obligations, and aspirations change. Each life is, quite literally, a “work in progress.”At the outset of this review, I noted that Amazon now offers almost 12,000 books on time management. Several of them are outstanding. In my opinion, 168 Hours is less about time management than it is about self-management (especially self-discipline) as well as decision-making (especially setting priorities). Laura Vanderkam provides about as much information and counsel as anyone needs to alleviate a real or perceived time crunch, leverage core competencies, define and then locate or create the “right jib,” control rather than be controlled by a calendar, achieve breakthroughs to greater understanding higher-impact performance, and in all life domains (career, family, personal, community, and society) be happier and more productive.I congratulate her on a brilliant achievement. Bravo!
Isha and Deeepak –
Waste of Money but more important Time
I expected a lot from this book but other than dragging success stories, it has nothing to offer. I believe who has the mindset to get this book, at least already knows that we all have 168 hours. What a person (at least me) expects that writer will provide some useful science or something unique to help but nope. Writer seems all over the place. I have read quite a number of books over the years and this one is one of the disappointments for me. If I compare this book with other famous self help books like 4 hour work week, atomic habits, how to win friends and influence people, think and grow rich and many more…, I’ll give this book a rating of 0. What a waste of time and money. Some people just write books for the sake of writing. A big disappointment.
Frank –
This book has been a catalyst to filling my 168 hours with the things that really deserve to be there.
Elisa –
Très bon livre. Ça fait réfléchir à la manière de gérer notre temps.Pas tout est applicable, mais c’est un bon point de départ.
Witte –
168 h is a very insighhful read. It helps to open the mind for what is possible and stop focusing on what’s not with regards to time.I like the book a lot!!! Awesome!
John Smith –
I hesitated to buy this book because of the negative reviews, especially the one that says all the useful info is in the TED talk. I finally decided to buy it because someone quoted a useful line from it that wasn’t in the talk, and I’m glad I bought it and read it.The thesis: If you work 8 hours a weekday and sleep 8 hours a night, you still have 72 hours a week for all other purposes. Even if you work 12 hours a weekday, that still leaves 52 hours. Yet we all complain about not having enough time for anything we want to do. So, where do those free hours go? Track your time over the course of a week and find out. In this context, it becomes absurd to say you don’t have time for something. It’s more accurate to say it’s not a priority. Your priorities are not what you want to do, but what you actually do.The author gives inspiring examples of people who manage to do it all. One is Theresa Daytner, who manages a business full time and is a mother of six but still finds adequate time to sleep. Even President Obama was shocked. I like these examples; I don’t like to read books by mere speculators.The author also gives tips for finding time to do what we want with out lives. We need to focus on our core competencies—the things no one else can do for us (like time with our children). For every task we would rather not do, we can at least see if we can eliminate it, automate it, or delegate it (check in that order). Examples include shopping, cooking, and cleaning. Before women joined the workforce, they actually spent less time with their children than they do now, despite having more children. The extra free time was taken up by these tasks; cultural rules developed to fill all that time with housework (like—actual examples cited by the author—having to chop up raisins and vacuum the walls and ceiling). Some say delegating these things costs too much money, but money has to be prioritized like time. If you spend x hours a week cleaning, how much would you pay to have that time back? Isn’t that more important than the money you spend on expensive toys? It would be interesting to see a money management book like this.All in all, it is very helpful, and not just for working moms. I am a single man, and I find the ideas a huge game changer.I disagree with a few things, though. I disagree with the idea that finding a job one loves enough to want to do more than full time is so easy; many of us have to take what we can get. I disagree with the idea that parents need to find fulfillment in careers instead of their children, or that the raising of children should be farmed out as the author seems to be implying. I disagree with the idea that we shouldn’t want to work fewer hours; personally, I like the idea of implementing these ideas in tandem with those of The 4-Hour Work Week (which the author believes to be misguided). The author seems to be buying into the “quality time” myth (I would have preferred to have more time with my parents than not, regardless of activity level), but this can be easily ignored by applying the principles to trying to have more time with one’s children.Still, apart from these minor quibbles, the book is great, and I recommend it to everyone.
Mr. JJ OBEIRNE –
Great breakdown, reassurance and actionable ideas around why you feel “busy” and how to properly leverage the time you have. Some great takeaways and an easy reading style that led me to finish it in a couple of days. Would recommend.