The Power Of Doing Less Why Time Management Courses Don't Work and How to Spend Your Precious Life on the Things That Really Matter

As each year goes by, we find ourselves working harder and harder. We spend more time at work, thinking about work, bringing work home with us. Work now invades our personal life in a way that would have been unimaginable only a few years ago. Remember when the media used to talk about having to educate people for leisure? The very notion raises a bitter or incredulous laugh these days. In the last twenty years there has been an unbelievable increase in the volume of things people are having to do and the stress that people are under. High levels of overload have become the norm. Especially since the collapse of the banks people are being told things like they have to work smarter, not harder and do more with less and that theyre lucky to have a job. What keeps people awake at night is exactly this idea that they are lucky to have a job. There is also the constant fear that no matter how well they perform, that the company could easily decide to dispense with them or move all the work to a cheaper economy (e.g. Eastern Europe, the Far East). As a result people do work harder and harder, trying to show more and more willing. This book wont stop organizations from moving their operations to cheaper economies. But it will show that this hamster-on-the-wheel approach wont work and that there is an alternative.

Overloaded? Ill bet you are.We all lead busy lives. You fall into bed exhausted at the end of the day, feeling that youve got a lot done. Perhaps you are getting lots done. But is it stuff that really matters? Or is it just stuff? Its time to wise up. You will never clear that list. Get used to the idea that some things will never get done.Not delayed. Not rescheduled. Not re-prioritized. But simply dropped. And from now on, instead of trying to clear that endless to-do list, youre going to do a much smarter thing. Youre going to just do the important stuff. And the brilliant thing is, you already have the power to do this. That power is to do less. Soon enough, youll have the space to enjoy the moment, be creative, find new or better ways of doing things, get ideas, and spot opportunities you would have missed when you were running around. In short - youll be happier. Much happier. As soon as you stop doing, the power of doing less will begin to flow.