Do you think you have ADD/ADHA or are just too busy to live your life. Then you need to read this book NOW! I had the chance to met Dr. Edward M. Hallowell a few weeks back and enjoyed listing to him talk. He is a very passionate speaker and can get through to many people. I seriously I think I have some ADD in me and focusing on a 1 hour presentation can be hard, but his speach just hit me and all I can say is WOW.
His book Crazy Busy probably describes about 90% of America today, we are all too busy to do anything and addicted to email and our crackberry. We need to slow down and take a look at either how we handle our time as well as keep us organized. One tip that he describes (that I have never heard of) is OHIO, Only Handle it once. Basically do you work on something 5 times before it’s finished because you keep getting distracted or just don’t want to do it. Then this should hit home, when your working on something, and then drop it to work on something else, only to come back to it and try and finish this simple 5 minute task, but you just spend 2 hours wasting time because you don’t want to do it.
Another great tip that he talks about is your morning burst. I know for me once I get up, shower I am ready to hit the ground running. I tend to be extremely focused in the morning and work straight to lunch, but once I get up and “continue” my day I feel that I am not as productive. I also know that in the morning if I don’t utilized my morning burst, I feel even less productive. Speaking of productivity, seriously how many times do you hit, inbox or “Send/Receive”. Yes I am guilty of this act, but we need to step back and understand that even 10 years ago, no one was checking email every minute. We would check it maybe every hour or two.
This book is a great way to connect to yourself as well as learn of various ways to help manage your time and energy. You need to leverage your energy each day to help keep you going. One thing that is starting to him me is that I have a birthday coming up in a week and am starting to think long term. One of the chapters focuses on how much time you have left until your 75 years old. He looks at how you can get the biggest return on invesment. I know for myself on my birthday (next week), I will have about 26,805,600 minutes until I turn 75. (so figure out the math if you want, or facestalk me)
It was great to hear Dr. Hallowell speak and I am signed up to hear him again in May 2008. His book is really great and all I can say is to quote USA Today, “Too Busy to read this book? Then you really need to.”
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