excellent, comprehensive, practical

this is really good to get going on time chunking... i can't particularly see why I'd need to find another book on it, as this covers enough that I understand it, can implement it, and make it work for me. I'm looking forward to starting on it today! particularly good for home workers during covid who are maybe starting to see their productivity dip. Also really useful for people who don't have strict deadlines applied to their work and/or are master procrastinators!

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A new way of working to increase productivity

A Thank you to Damon Zahariades, giving me a insight into the Time Chink Method. Though I am not full in to this method, I have introduce a mix of Time chunking and todo list system that in the short time I have used this system. I have found my productivity increase.

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explains the pomodoro method

This quick listen gives some good ideas and a blueprint to implement focused blocks of time to increase productivity.

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life changer

I like all the books of this author.The author truly knows his stuff and I have added another tool on ny tool belt

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focused advice

I have read and reread this quick succinct guide and rated high because it is a Nike- just do it! follow the guides and stop obvious procrastinations.

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Full of useless fluff

This book was a waste of money. He said in one phrase that took about 1 minute what the time chunking method was about with as much detail as you’d find on any blog, and then filled the rest of the book with absolute waffle, such as when to go to the toilet, the importance of seeing a doctor before exercise, and what foods we should eat to stay healthy. He even described apps that he had no knowledge of himself but ‘his friend told him about them’. Absolute waste of money.

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Nothing new, just common sense, a bit repetitive with a list of timer apps at the end!

To sum it up: Break your time into time frames with breaks built in, e.g. 25 mins + 5 min break or 50 mins + 10 min break to refresh; have a cup of coffee/tea, do some exercise, house work or walk the dog (if working from home). Avoid distractions by saying “No” to people if you can to protect your own time, switching off phone, not answering door etc. Declutter your work area and don’t access anything you don’t need to e.g. YouTube or emails if you can avoid them. At the end there are lots of apps named that you can use to set the timer.
This book may be useful to someone who has no organisation skills at all, however if you’ve studied (your teachers will usually have taught you this as a basic) or worked already then it’s unlikely to add any great value other than possibly name some time setting apps you may not have heard of before. Personally, I find that adding tasks to my email calendar does the same job and the automatic reminder alerts me in the same way rather than introducing something new, that way it incorporates conference call and meeting that have already been scheduled in to my calendar and allows me to review and move tasks around as priorities change. On the positive side it’s a short read, low cost, although very much reflected in the content.

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