ConZentrate: Get Focused and Pay Attention--When Life Is Filled with Pressures, Distractions, and Multiple Priorities

by Sam Horn

If you ever cluttered, scattered, distracted, unfocused, disorganized, preoccupied, overwhelmed, out of control, out of your mind... you can change your life! ConZentrate shows you how to master the art of paying attention, in thirty-five clear, practical, simple ways. Whether it's how to focus on a tedious task when the office is buzzing around you, or how to stop procrastinating, or how to keep your home from being a place of overwhelming clutter-- or ever how to tackle the challenges of A.D.D.-- Sam Horn's user-friendly book will inspire you to learn how to conzentrate, and discover the key to peak performance.

Genres: Nonfiction, Self Help, Psychology

368 pages, Paperback

First published March 11, 2000

Reviews

[George · Rating 1 out of 5]

I can't believe I wasted my T.I.M.E. reading this B.O.O.K.! Or rather, skimming after the first fifty pages. This author uses a number of increasingly disappointing and irritating techniques: first, she uses alternatingly irrelevant and generic quotes (many of which I'm sure you'll have heard before) to both introduce and support her points. Second, when she is advising you (for example) how to avoid distractions, the gist of her advice is "Don't get distracted. If there's a fly buzzing near your head, don't pay any attention. Tell yourself, 'I will not be distracted!'" The most irritating thing about this book, though, are the incessant A.C.R.O.N.Y.M.S.! One gets the feeling she started with the acronym (T.I.M.E., A.R.D.O.R., they go on and on), then invented her points to fit the mold. It gives the B.O.O.K. a very, VERY hokey/contrived quality. Your T.I.M.E. will be better spent ConZentrating on something E.L.S.E.! This is the kind of book that gives the "self-help" industry a bad reputation.

[William Schram · Rating 4 out of 5]

ConZentrate offers techniques and skills useful in time management. Sam Horn combines a Zen meditation technique with pithy suggestions to help you reclaim your time.

ConZentrate is full of quotes and tons of acronyms. To be honest, the acronyms started to annoy me. Although it is from 2000, the book is still serviceable.

[James Edward Taylor · Rating 1 out of 5]

I love Sam Horn but I couldn't finish this. The endless acronyms and clever buzzwords, probably meant as an aid to retaining the material, are, ironically, a distraction from it.

[Lisa · Rating 3 out of 5]

I love the quotes the author used to start each chapter. Some are very memorable.