Maryann Murphy - Stop Wasting Your Precious Time 60 Easy Strategies for Eliminating Your Biggest Time Wasters at Work

Praise for
STOP Wasting Your Precious Time

"I love this book! Not just because of the practical suggestions for getting the important things done; but for the clarity of the ideas, the to the point descriptions of actions to be taken, and the brief reminders of the specific actions you should take at the end of each chapter.

- Harold Taylor, CSP
Author of the Canadian bestseller Making Time Work for You

As a psychotherapist, I often treat disorganized clients who manage their time poorly and this is the perfect book to turn that around. The organization of the book itself is terrificreadable, action-oriented, chunked down, and user friendly. I love that there are numerous strategies to choose from, not simply a one-size-fits-all method.

- Karen R. Koenig, MEd, LCSW

International author of seven books on eating and weight management

Great book with lots of great info. I like how the book is organized. I was able to go directly to my areas of productivity need and get great advice on how to improve them!

- Eric Bloom

Executive Director, IT Management and Leadership Institute

You will definitely not be wasting precious time reading this book! With wit and wisdom, Maryann clearly outlines strategies to take back your time and make new decisions about your minutes, hours and days so you can choose to make things happen and get things done! Dont miss Strategy #60 enjoy celebrating your new success!

- Lynne Johnson, CPO-CD COC , ICD Master Trainer

Past President, NSGCD (now Institute for Challenging Disorganization SM )

If you ever struggle with not enough time, you are fortunate to have found Maryann Murphys book. It is filled with practical and powerful ways to be far more productive dealing with a whole array of time-stealing problems and will help you enjoy the process. This book delivers on its promise to give you back your precious time!

- Steve Lishansky, CEO - Optimize International

Speaker, Coach, Consultant to Fortune 1000 Leaders

I love how Maryann effectively organized the content, making reading and implementing the strategies in her book very easy, since our time is precious!! Instantly after applying Strategy # 56, it made a tremendous improvement in how my day went! I actually felt more in control of my time and achieved what I set out to do! People in all walks of life and jobs would benefit greatly by reading this book! I recommended to our management team that we get this book for all our employees and have Maryann come to our Agency to present on this topic!

- Darlene M. Eddy

Comptroller of the Clinton County Health Department, Plattsburgh, NY

Reading her book is NOT a waste of time as her 60 tips just could be the cure to procrastination.

- Judy Carter

Bestselling author of The Comedy Bible and The Message of You

If you or your team needs a reboot, this user-friendly book is a great resource for becoming more efficient and productive. Look up an area of concern and you'll find strategies to suit different work styles and personalities, along with behavioral change techniques to implement the strategy with success. Murphys style is lighthearted, but realistic and straight to the point. I think it belongs on the bookshelf of every HR department. And as someone who has long suffered from chronic disorganization, Ill admit its getting plenty of use from my bookshelf at home, as well!

- Caryn K., MIT

Former HR manager

This is a hell of a great book it's probably the best one on time management I've ever read! I was giggling, smirking, grinning thoroughly enjoying what I was reading, and considering what its about I wasnt expecting that response! But you managed to keep me interested the whole way through! I especially loved the chapter on meetings, because you hit the nail on the head! Love the book because its real for anyone who needs some help somewhere.

- Susan Rooks, the Grammar Goddess

Copyeditor, Corporate Trainer, Blogger

STOP Wasting Your Precious Time is a life saver for those of us who need to get and stay organized at work. Maryann provides a clear, precise and effective roadmap for taking control and getting things done. A great book for everyone who wants to better manage their time.

- Susan Foley
Managing Partner of Corporate Entrepreneurs, LLC

Author of Entrepreneurs Inside and

Acceleration: Changing the Speed of Growth

The book is packed with practical down-to-earth tips on increasing productivity.

- Gary McKinsey

Business Growth Strategist

Past President of NSA-Northern California

Wasting
Your Precious
Time

60 Easy Strategies for

Eliminating Your Biggest Time Wasters at Work

Maryann Murphy, MSW, CPO

Copyright 2018 by Maryann Murphy, MSW, CPO

All rights reserved.

Published in the United States by Productivity Publishing.

No portion of this book may be reproduced mechanically, electronically, or by any other means, including photocopying, without written permission of the publisher, except in the case of brief quotations
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ISBN - 978-0-692-07649-1

Library of Congress Control Number: 2018936102

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The purpose of this book is to educate and inform. The author and/or publisher do not guarantee that anyone following these techniques, suggestions, tips, ideas, or strategies will become successful. The author and/or publisher shall have neither liability nor responsibility to anyone with respect to any loss or damage caused, or alleged to be caused, directly or indirectly by the information contained in this book.

For Dan, who makes all my time so precious!

Preface

Welcome. I hope youre as excited as I am, because together were about to change your life! Congratulations on taking the first step towards a more efficient life.

When I teach classes and coach clients on time management, I hear one complaint over and over:

I have so much to do, and I work really hard, but certain people (my coworkers, boss, family, customers, etc.) and certain things (my cell phone, incoming emails, texts, and more) keep wasting my time! How do I get them to stop?

Does this sound familiar? If only these time wasters would leave us alone! Whether you work for a huge corporation, a medium sized business or nonprofit, or even if youre self-employed, the problem is never all them a lot of it is us our own poor work habits, inefficient set-up of our workspaces, and failure to focus on our own top priorities.

This book is dedicated to eliminating (or at least reducing) the biggest distractions, habits and situations that waste your time at work (and elsewhere), and to helping you regain the precious hours youve been losing every week in non-productive and low-priority activities.

The Problem: We all have a lot to do. Companies are trying to go lean and accomplish more with fewer resources. The pace of change in the world keeps accelerating, making it harder for us to keep up, and the expectations of what we should accomplish in one lifetime have grown exponentially as enhanced communication has made anything seem possible.

But we still have just 24 hours in a day, and most of us spend at least eight of them working. When we waste any portion of those hours, we have less time to accomplish all that we want to do. Its frustrating, and its sad.