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Mrs. J. A. Barnes

Excellent must read

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 1 september 2021

All my life I’ve struggled with time guilt - whatever I was doing I felt guilty that I should be doing something else. When my children were little I felt I should be doing chores when I was with them & vice versus. I’ve corrected that over the years and know what is important to me & spend more time on the things I love. But still felt pressured to do more with my life - always striving for something in the future - this book addresses all that & I had more than 1 “ oh my god” moments when it seemed like it was reading my mind. It is uncanny! Here’s the thing - you CANT do everything & achieve everything. I still have plans but this book has taken a weight off my mind & given me permission to enjoy the moment I’m in & life I’m living now!! Highly recommend - I read it cover to cover in 1 day!!

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Master Td Chambers

How to accept your limited time on earth and spend it meaningfully

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 9 oktober 2021

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The ideas in this book are floating around in the ether at the moment. It's the antidote to the productivity, work smart, squeeze every moment philosophy that's been around for 20 or 30 years. There's books about rest, 4 day week initiatives and a growing realisation that trying to be more productive is only making us more stressed. So I think it's fair to say that Burkeman won't be the only person to write this book, but I do think he will have written the best and most thoughtful iteration of it.

A self proclaimed productivity geek, Burkeman has come to a lot of the same conclusions that have started to bug me over the last few years. Time is finite. No matter how efficient we get we'll never do everything we feel we're supposed to do. The answer he says is to acknowledge our limitations and be honest with ourselves that the life we're living right now is what we have.

By stopping struggling against the limits of time we can enjoy what we're doing right now, and really invest and commit to it. Instead of believing we're capable of engaging with every opportunity the modern world presents to us, we have to make hard choices about what we really want to do. What if you weren't trying to get somewhere? What if you accepted that you're already as here as you're ever going to be, what would you do then? He highlights the peril the instrumentalisation of time, always doing something for what might happen in the future. Taking a picture of fireworks so you can enjoy it later instead of enjoying the moment.

It's not necessarily an easy thing to do. Because the theme that runs through the book is that you genuinely can't do everything you want to do, and not doing some things means giving up on some of your dreams. But it is liberating to realise that actually, it doesn't matter in the end, you can let go and really focus on what you're doing. It means trading in a flawless fantasy where you do everything perfectly for the messy reality where you do a handful of things in ways you might fail at. It means giving up certainty to some extent, since committing to something means taking a path without knowing exactly where you're going. But the alternative is to go nowhere.

It's a level headed read that takes in a wide range of influences from philosophy and other writers, to great effect as the wisdom of the book is much deeper than you would expect from what is technically a tome about time management. I've highlighted all the way through and I'll definitely be returning to it to absorb it more fully.

There aren't really any tricks or frameworks to subscribe to. A while ago I read books on techniques on how to make better choices, how I could weigh up each option and make the "right" choice. It's more like a guide to confronting reality, accepting that you will fail and you will make the wrong choices sometimes. But that's ok, and it's a lot less stressful than trying to maintain the impossible standard of always choosing right, always filling your time in the right way.

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Dr. Chris Buckley

Relentless stream

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 15 oktober 2021

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The book has some very good passages and I highlighted quite a few in the first part of the book. However, there are very few paragraph breaks and one observation/insight flows continually into the next. This makes it hard to digest and really quite tiring. I feel that the author could really use a good editor to sort things out a bit better and provide a better journey through the book.

In regards of the content, the book is really quite philosophical and is valuable for getting you to stand back and look at your life, your attention and quality of life. Despite the continual torrent of sentences, it is a worthwhile read.

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V SOWTER

life changing...yes really

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 3 oktober 2021

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For the last 40 years I have been trying to perfect my time management skills, optimise all aspects of my life and have suffered anxiety over my ever increasing lists of things to do. This book has rescued me from this trap. In recent years I had been developing a sense of somehow being conned by so many lifestyle tips that treat people as a machine and the author here has articulated that problem really well. I am utterly utterly grateful to him for revealing so many hidden truths. I have never read anything as useful to somebody as obsessive as me to turn around my thinking.

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Samir

Timeless wisdom distilled with clarity and simplicity

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 30 augustus 2021

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This is one of those books that I know I will be coming back to every few years. With deceptive simplicity and clarity, Burkeman makes a very convincing argument for why we need to rethink our relationship to time, and in the process, our relationship to life itself.

The book presents ideas that, while not necessarily new, he has made infinitely more accessible and relevant by restating them, with wit and self-deprecating humour, to fit the context of today's life and technology. It's not an understatement to say the book has been transformative for me.

Deep wisdom masquerading as a book about time management.

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P. Rosser

Fabulous book

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 30 augustus 2021

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A brilliant book about how common methods of Time Management are a flawed concept and how we really should use the very small amount of time available to us.

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David Wylie

A good reminder to make sure we do some living in this life

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 20 september 2021

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Sharing alot with stoic philosophy, this book is pretty eye opening and worldview challenging. We sabotage ourselves with unrealistic expectations and can only be happy, free and truly productive when we escape them.

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Jen

Utterly wise and brilliant

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 28 augustus 2021

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It’s just such a wonderful book - wise, human, practical, knowledgeable, wry - I can’t recommend it highly enough. I want to give it to everyone I know.

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Christopher

Finally, the book that changed everything

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 23 november 2021

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I have read hundreds of books in or around the subjects of time management, self-help and mental health, mainly due to an consistent underlying feeling that somehow I wasn't meeting up to the standards set by myself and society.

If procrastination was an Olympic Sport, there is no doubt I would have been good enough to make British Team (assuming I got around to entering the application). It wasn't even good procrastination, I was actually pretty good at getting the stuff that didn't matter done, work tasks, emails, paying bills, housework, but forever put off the things that might have made a genuine difference to my quality of life, the new camera sitting in a cupboard for 2 years before mustering the courage to use it.

The message and advice in this book is so powerful and feels completely natural that I found myself saying 'of course' again, and again. The anxiety gradually drained away as I read through the chapters, realising that not meeting the standards set in other productivity books wasn't because I was at fault. Most of us have been in a busyness trap since birth, often setting ourselves unachievable goals, and even when we meet some of those goals, not really savouring it, but moving straight on to the next one.

This book lays bare that trap. and sets out how we can break it and finally get down to doing the things that deliver a satisfying, rewarding and peaceful existence during the marvellous gift of the little time we have.

I've chosen to apportion some of my time to writing this review, because if even just one person gets as much out of this masterpiece as I have, it will be time immensely well spent.

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Isn't life strange?

Beoordeeld in het Verenigd Koninkrijk op 31 oktober 2021

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This is a book about happiness disguised as a time-management book. It is a long and rambling work but a pleasure to read. Our happiness, or conversely, our unhappiness hinge on how we deal with remorse and anxiety. One dwells on the past, and the other worries about the future. Getting rid of them does not mean that we do not reminisce fondly nor make no plans for the future. It is all a question of balance.

All the advice in this book is sensible. Rational advice requires rational application, but remorse and anxiety are states of mind tied to our emotional self. Therein lies the problem, but most of us, once appraised of the acute problem, should be able to inculcate the habits that help us control the emotional states that hinders our enjoyment of the present.

The advice and tips found in this book steer us to pay attention to the pleasure of enjoying the things we do on the basis of the joy in doing them, and not as a means to an end. We should run for the enjoyment of running and not because need have imposed a target of losing five kilogrammes of weight, or that we may become healthy through exercise.

Properly understood, correctly practised, one will probably discover why we have not been happier in the past – but that will be in the past. Enjoy.

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