The Mind Gym : Give Me Time (Mind Gym)
£2.60
The problem of not having enough time is as old as time itself, and so are most of the proposed cures. The trouble is, they don’t seem to work. The Mind Gym: Give me time proposes a radically different approach to time and how we use it. Combining extensive psychological research with five years of testing amongst The Mind Gym’s 100,000 members, this book offers practical solutions that will make you feel great about how your time is spent. The book is packed with techniques including
*how to achieve more by slowing down
* tiny time investments that deliver massive returns
* how to say ‘no’ and be loved for it
* simple ways to get other people to want to do your work for you
* how to get time with people who haven’t got time for you
And there’s no need to read this book from cover to cover. The questionnaire at the start guides you directly to the chapters that will help you most.
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Additional information
| Publisher | First British Edition (1 Mar. 2006), Time Warner Books |
|---|---|
| Language | English |
| Paperback | 320 pages |
| ISBN-10 | 9780316731690 |
| ISBN-13 | 978-0316731690 |
| Dimensions | 13.4 x 2.2 x 21.5 cm |
by Ros Bush
Keeping the mind active, may help?
by The Emperor
The purely time management chapters are a particular disappointment as they are very shallow and basically the type of thing that you can find in short magazine articles.
There are a few helpful and useful bits but they are few and far between.
by Guyrik
Once I started reading this book, I quickly realized it’s a book I should have read years ago. It’s so much more than the title suggests.
The introduction recommends that you just dip into the book at a chapter that seems to fit what you’re looking for, rather than taking the time to read the book cover to cover. I found an interesting chapter ‘Manana’ and began reading. Wow! It’s a short chapter and I got so many good ideas out of it, that really do help to get things done. Typical for this book, it goes below the surface and exposes the real issue. This chapter alone made the book worth buying for me!
With that experience, I enthusiastically carried on reading from another section: ‘Time Well Spent’. This comprises four chapters that logically follow on from one another – a course in itself. The first chapter of this section is ‘Joy Division’. This chapter was revolutionary to me. It says: if we want to be sure that time couldn’t be better spent, we have to know what we want; if we don’t know what we want then it’s going to be all but impossible to know how to go about getting it. So the chapter then takes us through an analysis of how to be happy and how to maximize it. This techique’s so simple you won’t forget it, and it might just change your life. I didn’t expect to find such stuff in a book on time management, but it’s so significant in achieving it. There’s nothing airy-fairy about this book’s content – it’s structured, analytical, scientific, and very well presented. The authors did a great job here! It’s easy to read and also humorous at times.
I’d say this book would be useful for anyone. There are revelations in it that anyone could get something new from. This book doesn’t propose to be using techniques that have never been thought of before; it’s just simply a great book that breaks down the subject of how to manage time outstandingly well in a very structured way. It’s helped me a lot. I highly recommend this book!
by Amazon Customer
A different approach of time management to achieve your goals which involve quizzes and thinking outside the box. It’s not just a book on how to cut corners and save time. A novel approach and interesting.
by Pete B.
Excellent series – supported by real psychology.
This one is on time and chapter by chapter delivers some practical ideas of things you can do to use time more effectively.
I found myself trying to speed read, for example. But ultimately, in my view, it all comes down to doing less. And why do we do more? Well that is the really interesting question.
by Amazon Customer
I read the first book and loved it, even if the subjects were a bit far ranging. When I saw they had produced another book, I wondered if it would be a weaker version of the first. Having read “Give me Time”, I can safely say that far from being a shadow of its predecessor, it is more informative, better researched, even easier to use and exceptional value.
Moreover, it touches on aspects of time that I had not realised were so vital in our constant quest to find more time in our lives. One example of this is the chapter on delegation which cleverly explains the difference between precision delegation (which is what most of us do) and capability delegation (which is what most of us should do more of); I have tried their techniques and they really do get other people happily to do your work for you.
Another treat is the chapter on happiness. A surprising thing to find in a book on time, at least it surprised me, but a revelation. The search for happiness affects all of us and this is the most interesting thing I’ve read on how to get it. No airy-fairy nonsense, just common sense translated from proper psychological research.
The opening chapter is called ‘I don’t have time to read this book’. A clever way to introduce a questionnaire that guides you to the chapters that you’re most likely to find helpful. But, if you’re anything like me, once you start you will want to read the whole thing.
If you buy one self-development book buy this one. Unlike most books in this genre, it delivers much, much more than the title suggests.
by K. Kilby
I don’t often write reviews on Amazon, but I felt I needed to share the love on this one! A friend of mine introduced me to the first too Mind Gyms books, which I’ve found very practical and really easy to relate too. Whereas the last 2 helped me on a personal/individual level, both in terms of work and home, this new book delves into relationships and doesn’t fail to deliver! It’s like an intelligent yet down to earth (and fun) friend with a pscyhology degree explaining why we behave the way we do, while offering practical, useful advice. It’s easy to apply the points from the book in your everyday live, and I promise you’ll notice the results if you do, just as I did. It’s already helped me deal better with a particular someone at work, and has made me think before starting arguments with my boyfriend!! There are some lovely stories and examples, so it makes for a good read at the same time. Highly recommend! If you haven’t already got a new year’s resolution it should be to buy this book and better your relationships in 2009!