Review of 9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins

9 Steps to Work Less and Do More by Stever Robbins, ISBN 978-0-312-22621-5 published by St. Martin's Griffin is the type of book I always pick up because I know that even one really good idea will be worth the cost of the book. This book was packed with good tips.

He lists some of the best right on the back cover such as: Speed-Dating your tasks. You can face anything if it's just for three minutes: schedule small, finite periods of time for those tasks that seem too overwhelming to get started. Or his suggestion that you give technology a performance review. Our smart phones, PDAs, and computer Stevers point out often makes less work in one area while making much more in others. He suggests you review your technology to make sure it's delivering on its promise. And my favorite of all his suggestions was to cut out small talk. He doesn't mean you quit talking to people, but that you talk to them about meaningful subjects rather than the weather etc.

A suggestion I implemented immediately was to divide my week into focus days and task days. On a task day I run errands, make calls, do filing, all that little time consuming stuff. Then on my focus days I'm free to really focus on my projects. Another suggestion I loved was sending my to do items to myself by email with the task as the subject line. Since I compulsively check my email this will help keep those tasks in front of me.

I know that this book is one I will keep going back to to see if some of the other suggestions might be just what I need. I'm trying to schedule Stever on Dreamtime Radio for an interview, so watch my schedule at JuliaWiddop.com.