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Shave 10 Hours Off Your Workweek
4 Proven Strategies to Create More Margin for the Things That Matter Most:
1. Boost your energy
2. Guard your time
3. Sharpen your focus
4. Flex your 'no' muscle
1. Boost your energy
2. Guard your time
3. Sharpen your focus
4. Flex your 'no' muscle
50 pages, ebook
First published February 22, 2015
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March 13, 2015
As someone who homeschools, works, and runs a household, the idea of freeing up ten (!!) hours a week appeals to me. Hyatt identifies this as a margin issue, and exhorts readers to consider if they really want to be remembered as “constantly tired, sick, and emotionally spent.” No.
Interestingly, the most guidance I noted in the book was about getting more sleep. The book has some good ideas about this.
I did find the book helpful, and think it’s worth the cost of giving up your email address. I like Hyatt’s style, although lots of times I feel like I’m not his target audience. I am a flex worker, but I’m in a creative field that is very client-driven. Hyatt’s advice is very much geared toward internet entrepreneurs who are investing in building platforms for whatever reason. I’m not really in that mode. However, some of the advice is universally applicable, so again, the book is worth the price and time. You may find more take-aways if you haven’t read as heavily in the time and life management genre as I have.
{Read my full review here}
Interestingly, the most guidance I noted in the book was about getting more sleep. The book has some good ideas about this.
I did find the book helpful, and think it’s worth the cost of giving up your email address. I like Hyatt’s style, although lots of times I feel like I’m not his target audience. I am a flex worker, but I’m in a creative field that is very client-driven. Hyatt’s advice is very much geared toward internet entrepreneurs who are investing in building platforms for whatever reason. I’m not really in that mode. However, some of the advice is universally applicable, so again, the book is worth the price and time. You may find more take-aways if you haven’t read as heavily in the time and life management genre as I have.
{Read my full review here}
October 24, 2017
Hyatt is one of the best writers on productivity. This little book will be a big help if you’re looking to get started in better time management practices.
October 29, 2020
I receive a daily email from Michael Hyatt on leadership, self-improvement building a platform, or some other business or self-improvement related topic. I also read his popular book Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World since it was recommend twice in a writer’s conference that I had attended. I have found Hyatt to have a good insight into many business related topics. When I found this short, ebook - Shave 10 Hours From Your Workweek - was available on how to increase my personal effectiveness and efficiency I was excited to see what Hyatt recommended that might be beneficial to me.
This book’s intention is to teach the reader to reduce the amount of time at work each week without reducing quantity and quality of results so available time can be used for higher importance activities that bring greater joy and fulfillment to life. Hyatt recommends four major points areas that can aid in shaving unproductive and wasted time at work and outside work:
1. Boost Your Energy
2. Guard Your Time
3. Sharpen Your Focus
4. Flex Your 'No' Muscle
Hyatt is good at identifying actionable items that can be done in each of these four areas to improve overall individual performance.
Here are a few points I learned or was reemphasized to me that I need to improve in my life:
•Sleep is important for productivity over a long period of time.
•Don’t just eat what you enjoy at the moment. Instead, eat for the effect it will have later.
•The importance of planning and prioritizing – principles so capably taught by Stephen Covey.
•There's no such thing as multitasking.
•There’s a big difference between being busy and being productive.
•The Web is most people’s No. 1 time suck. We can daily waste minutes or even hours - Most time on the web is spent on not important and not urgent tasks (Covey’s Quadrant 4).
•You don’t need to continue habits that no longer serve you.
•Do you have a time management problem or a self-management problem? This point hit me like a ton of bricks. I have plenty of time to do all the important things in my life if I am better at self-management.
I recommend this book to those who want a short read on how to improve effectiveness and efficiency at the workplace and life in general. There is no groundbreaking information in this book but is a good reminder of things that that can be done to be a better employee, owner, boss, parent, leader and person.
Other books I’ve read by Michael Hyatt
Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
This book’s intention is to teach the reader to reduce the amount of time at work each week without reducing quantity and quality of results so available time can be used for higher importance activities that bring greater joy and fulfillment to life. Hyatt recommends four major points areas that can aid in shaving unproductive and wasted time at work and outside work:
1. Boost Your Energy
2. Guard Your Time
3. Sharpen Your Focus
4. Flex Your 'No' Muscle
Hyatt is good at identifying actionable items that can be done in each of these four areas to improve overall individual performance.
Here are a few points I learned or was reemphasized to me that I need to improve in my life:
•Sleep is important for productivity over a long period of time.
•Don’t just eat what you enjoy at the moment. Instead, eat for the effect it will have later.
•The importance of planning and prioritizing – principles so capably taught by Stephen Covey.
•There's no such thing as multitasking.
•There’s a big difference between being busy and being productive.
•The Web is most people’s No. 1 time suck. We can daily waste minutes or even hours - Most time on the web is spent on not important and not urgent tasks (Covey’s Quadrant 4).
•You don’t need to continue habits that no longer serve you.
•Do you have a time management problem or a self-management problem? This point hit me like a ton of bricks. I have plenty of time to do all the important things in my life if I am better at self-management.
I recommend this book to those who want a short read on how to improve effectiveness and efficiency at the workplace and life in general. There is no groundbreaking information in this book but is a good reminder of things that that can be done to be a better employee, owner, boss, parent, leader and person.
Other books I’ve read by Michael Hyatt
Platform: Get Noticed in a Noisy World
June 6, 2016
Many useful advices packed-in-one. Not quite new for those who are interested in personal productivity, but still something good for refreshing the knowledge.
Focused on four topics:
- Energy: Sleep/Nap/Eat/Smile
- Time: Plan/Schedule
- Focus: Online distractions/Batch tasks/Emails
- Saying 'No': Manage options/Manage meetings
Nice productivity-apéritif overall, enough consistent to read in 1-hour spare time.
P.S. Advising on taking nap in work-environment in either car or closet is... er... grotesque?
Focused on four topics:
- Energy: Sleep/Nap/Eat/Smile
- Time: Plan/Schedule
- Focus: Online distractions/Batch tasks/Emails
- Saying 'No': Manage options/Manage meetings
Nice productivity-apéritif overall, enough consistent to read in 1-hour spare time.
P.S. Advising on taking nap in work-environment in either car or closet is... er... grotesque?
September 20, 2017
This is a great short read full of little but powerful things you can do to better manage your time and workload. With info taken from various sources, using the ideas you may have read before and not used, perhaps because many of the books carry too much information, this is one you should read and then act on.
May 19, 2017
Another excellent resource from Mr. Hyatt! Great reminders in this book of what I should be doing!
October 13, 2017
Good advice and quick read. Gives references to other material if you want to read about a concept. Very high level with little detail but great advice
August 7, 2015
Even though some of the advice (get enough sleep, take naps) seems of the "eat your vegetables" variety, he makes compelling arguments for all. Good stuff on guarding your time, dodging distractions, and firm admonitions to "touch emails only once" that are presented as eminently doable. One of the best ones for me was that saying "no" to things that drain your time is actually saying "yes" to things that are more worthy. Credible and helpful stuff.
May 28, 2015
Good short read on how to be more productive in your career and in life. Some of the points Michael Hyatt gives are common knowledge such as
plan your day in advanced
email inbox zero
exercise and eat right
Yet he gives reasons why and also provides links to proven studies.
This free Ebook was a reminder and a refresher to why I should be more productive with my time.
plan your day in advanced
email inbox zero
exercise and eat right
Yet he gives reasons why and also provides links to proven studies.
This free Ebook was a reminder and a refresher to why I should be more productive with my time.
March 1, 2015
This short book includes important productivity principles. Unfortunately, if you've spent much time focusing on productivity, there's not a lot of new information here. I was hoping for something revolutionary that really would save me 10 hours a week!
March 27, 2015
This one is good, but if you are a follower of Michael Hyatt's blog or podcast you are probably already pretty familiar with what is talked about in here. If you are not then this is a great way to find a lot of what he teaches in one place
April 13, 2015
Basic sound advice that requires execution. Love the flow. The tips at the end are a great summary. Good short read that's worth the time to learn and implement.
March 11, 2015
I'm practicing many of these. The hardest is perhaps the sleep part which I'm constantly working on but the biggest nugget for me is to Automate Your No.
June 24, 2015
Decent overview on time management, but the title was slightly misleading in that the book is general strategies, not a "this will save you 20 minutes of time" type list.
December 17, 2015
Simple, common sense, and very helpful. I am a firm believer that it is the simple stuff that will allow us to succeed when applied consistently over time.
January 4, 2017
Concise and to the point. Suitable for anyone looking to be more productive.
February 26, 2015
Good review on many princples i've learned in the past year.
March 1, 2015
Not bad. A lot of common sense in one book.
May 1, 2017
Finally a little ebook about personal productivity that summarizes the most popular concepts nicely without adding fluff and padding just to make you feel like you get value for money. Admittedly, it was a free ebook which you can currently get by subscribing to his newsletter - so in terms of value for money the ratio was actually quite high.
The content is clearly written, extracted to points obviously working for him daily. The summary/cheat-sheet is also a nice touch which will gave me coming back to this book more often than originally anticipated. It mentions the most popular sources of the ideas he employs, so if you haven't read them you can.
It looks professional, reads easily and quickly, the layout is attractive and I didn't spot any typo's. That's more than most self-published ebooks can say. And I'm definitely even more eager to buy his other books based on the standard of this one.
The content is clearly written, extracted to points obviously working for him daily. The summary/cheat-sheet is also a nice touch which will gave me coming back to this book more often than originally anticipated. It mentions the most popular sources of the ideas he employs, so if you haven't read them you can.
It looks professional, reads easily and quickly, the layout is attractive and I didn't spot any typo's. That's more than most self-published ebooks can say. And I'm definitely even more eager to buy his other books based on the standard of this one.
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