How to Get More Done: Seven Days to Achieving More

by Fergus O'Connell

Overwhelmed by life and work pressures? Feel like there are never enough hours in the day to get everything done? Not anymore. Light on theory and heavy on practice, this book shows you an easy and immediate way that not only gets you back on top of things, but helps you to achieve even more on a daily basis. Based on a seven day week, each day you will learn a new principle,so in one week you will have mastered a set of practical set of skills that ensures you achieve more and feel less stressed. Plus extra chapters are included to give added support to your skill set - such as how to create extra time in your life and establishing what your working patterns are. Manage your life. Do everything you want to do. Get more out of your day.

224 pages, Paperback

First published December 1, 2008

About the author

My mum read Treasure Island to me when I was four and I think that was when I decided to become a writer.

I used to think I’d like to spend all my time writing, but spending all day alone in a room with your imaginary friends isn’t necessarily the healthiest way to pass the time. (It’s easy to see why so many great writers’ best friend has been the whisky bottle!) So I also write books and teach and speak on project management. I’ve written sixteen non-fiction books and had seven novels published. My most recent, The Paradise Ghetto is now in development based on my own screenplay.

I’ve been shortlisted for prizes – the Kerry Ingredients Irish Fiction Prize for my first novel, Call The Swallow; in non-fiction, for my book on common sense, Simply Brilliant which was runner-up in the W H Smith Book Awards. My books have been translated into twenty-five languages.

So far, all my novels have been set during wartime but I don’t think of myself as a war novelist. I write about people caught up in great events and how they try to find love in the most difficult of circumstances.

I’m widowed, have two grown-up children and have lived in lots of places. Currently I’m living in England but that could be about to change.