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(More customer reviews)When I see a book about time management, I get this image of tracking my time in 15 minute increments. That is absolutely not what this book is about. In my view this book is more about life mastery than it is about time management.
If you learn to Master The Moment, you will automatically learn to master your life. So if you are looking to accomplished more, create more order in your life, achieve your dreams, then this is an excellent place to start. This book is about how to live in the present - how to identify what is important in your life and maintain your focus on that.
Pat Brans sought out and interview 50 CEOs, looking to find their "secret to success" and then has taken the wisdom from these interviews and reduced it to a easy to understand system that anybody can follow. If you learn and apply just a fraction of the wisdom contained in this book, you will gain significant leverage on your efforts. You will greatly improve the results in your life and will do with less time and effort.
The book is divided into three parts. Part one discusses the right mindset. This is foundational. If you don't approach life with the right mindset, you will always struggle. There is a real collection of wisdom in this section. You will learn (or be reminded) of so many valuable lessons - slow down to go faster, doing the right things instead of doing things right, and how to manage your attitude are just a few of the important points to the right mindset.
Part two is a six step method for "good time management". Again, I much prefer to think of this a how to achieve your goals with less effort. It is not so much about managing time as it is about managing yourself. The six steps are: Identify yourself, Energize, Prioritize, Optimize (he uses the UK spelling for those words), Head off problems early and Finish things. This is full of excellent information. I know we would all do much better if we would just follow the high points of these six steps.
Part three deals with how to bring about personal change.
All the information in the book is built around interviews and examples from very successful CEOs, people who got to where they are by mastering the moment. There are some great stories and interesting insights from successful people. What you will come to realize from reading this book is these people did not attain their success because they were born with some special talents. Their success is a result of their mindset, their ability to get things accomplished and their ability to adapt to change. All skills that the ordinary person can learn to master by following the concepts in this book.
The book has plenty of exercises to help you implement the concepts and there are over 40 specific tips on specific things to do.
Our lives are ruled by habits. Most of the things we do, we do repetitively. So if you are going to Master the Moment, you will need to change some habits in your life. There is an excellent appendix in the book (which could easily be a stand alone workbook) which will help you develop the habits necessary to master your life.
This is an excellent book. There are many extremely valuable lessons. This can be an excellent guide to changing and improving your life. It is not to be read just for gaining knowledge. It is a great tool to use to model your ideal life. To Master The Moment means to master your life, to take total control, to ensure your ideal life.
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High achievers are not necessarily smarter or putting in more effort than those around them. But they do have different attitudes and are more careful how they use time. From their perspective they are moving at a comfortable pace. To the typical bystander, they are zipping past. Master The Moment reveals tips from 50 CEOs - all Masters of Time.The powerful ideas in the book are backed up with research by psychologists and physiologists in areas such as motivation, decision theory, procrastination, habit forming, and physical fitness. Pat Brans includes material from autobiographies and exclusive interviews with CEOs of 50 top companies and institutions including the City of Grenoble, Columbia Sportswear, Dell, Southwest Airlines, University of Maryland, US Census Bureau and Virgin.
