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Preface
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But be ready for moments—many moments, probably—
when you’ll say to yourself, “I’ve always known that. My parents
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told me to do that!” Sure, but are you still applying it? After all,
as you’ll discover, much of your journey toward better time
management is about recommitting to what you already know.

The Benefits of Time Management
Time is finite. We have only so many hours available in a day to
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live our lives, accomplish the tasks that we need to accomplish,
and enjoy our lives.
Every minute we waste in frustration over a task that seems
overwhelming is a minute subtracted from the time we’ve allot-
ted to enjoy life. Even our jobs should provide us with plea-
sures—a sense of accomplishment, the gratification of recogni-
tion for a job well done, and financial rewards, too—that enable
us to enjoy our personal lives even more. It can be done. Less
stress, more confidence, reduced frustration, greater fulfill-
ment—these are all benefits that flow from leading a time-man-
aged life. Our hope is that Time Management will help you
achieve all these things and more.
The primary benefit to you, as you read and absorb the
lessons here, will be an increase in your on-the-job productivity.
But, like other books in the Briefcase Books series, Time
Management is designed to provide you with far more than that.
It’s intended to assist you, as well, in helping your frontline staff
refine their own time-management skills, in making their jobs
easier, and in making them more productive. Even more, it will
help you to apply the skills you learn to your life outside the
workplace—to your home, your relationships with family and
friends—in short, to your life in general.
This sub-theme—that these skills go beyond your own job—
will be evident throughout the book. It’s interwoven into the
content through examples from ordinary life and from the kinds
of jobs done by your staff. These examples will serve, we hope,
to pique your imagination—to get you to think about other ways

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