This book contains proven steps and strategies on how to improve your productivity, regardless if you are working as a freelancer, as a businessman, or as an employee. This book is also intended to make you more productive in your daily routines.
You will learn different holistic approaches to become more productive in all of your endeavors by setting your mind into your responsibilities and goals, boosting your energy, maximizing your time, and informing you of the counterproductive habits that make you less efficient in your tasks.
Don't miss this chance to get your life back on track and become a positive person!
This book offers some good insight into what productivity really is and how to achieve it. There's some good tips in here about how to start your day and how to deal with fading energy levels. Some of the productivity tips and ideas are ones you may already be aware of while others are new, but it certainly doesn't hurt to have reminders as knowing something and doing something are totally different. Sometimes having the idea presented in another way will make it click for you and it then becomes a part of your routine. I found myself re-organizing some of these for my personal needs. Within the Kindle you can color code them or make notes or you can even write them down one to a piece of paper flashcard style, bind and stick in your desk for easy reference at work. You can organize them into a file to review at certain points of your day - when you get in, when you're yawning, etc.
I felt it needed more detail about how to deal with distractions as I remember this was a huge problem for me and my coworkers when I was still working. Even now, distractions can keep me from doing what I ideally ought to be doing. I also thought the section on disorganization needed to not just include general info but specific tips or concepts as this was an area almost everyone I worked with struggled with. Some tips needed modifications to be useful at work, like the cold shower one. For example, would putting your hands and wrists in cold water and splashing your face with it and/or drinking a glass of ice water in a chilled glass have a similar effect? There's the occasional mistake like "garb" for "grab". The author states it doesn't matter how long you nap for power naps and then goes on to give specific time guidance. Having the author bio at the end focus on food and not mention productivity at all was a little odd.
I wouldn't say this was the "ultimate guide to productivity". There are some good tips and strategies, but several areas need to be fleshed out to be more useful (I mentioned two earlier). While I am taking some tactics from this book with me, I probably won't reread it again. In general, I prefer my guides to be something I want to periodically revisit so I can deepen understanding or focus on an area that previously wasn't as high a priority. I liked the way the author framed the issue of productivity at the beginning, it was very interesting and caused me to think about it in a somewhat different way. I like this book, I don't love it but I think it has the beginnings of a really good resource if the author revises it. I did receive this at a free or discounted price in exchange for my honest review.