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Time
Management
Ninja

21 Tips for More Time and
Less Stress in Your Life

Craig Jarrow

Coral Gables, FL

Copyright 2019 Craig Jarrow

Cover Design: Morgane Leoni

Layout Design: Jermaine Lau

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Time Management Ninja: 21 Tips for More Time and Less Stress in Your Life

ISBN: (p) 978-1-63353-744-6 (e) 978-1-63353-745-3

LCCN: 2019944128

BISAC: SEL035000SELF-HELP / Self-Management / Time Management

Acknowle dgments

This book was a long time coming. (There are more than just a few time management jokes there) None of this book would have been possible without the encouragement of my wife, Amy. She has always been behind my hobby. She supported me years ago when I started my platform, blog, and podcast Time Management Ninja and to my current speaking engagements and beyond. I dedicate this book to my kids, Piper and Nate (the original ninjas who inspired the name). My familys support means everything to methey are the top priority of my time!

A special thanks to Hyrum Smith who inspired my passion for time management way back when Franklin day planners ruled the business world. Thanks to everyone at Mango Publishing who supported me in this projectNatasha Vera, for your endless patience and guidance and Yaddyra Peralta for your editing expertise. Finally, thanks to all of the individuals who have read the Time Management Ninja blog over the years. When I started with a single half-page blog post, I never expected that my writings would reach millions of people around the world. Thank you for your read ership!

Table of C ontents

Throughout my many years in the time management world, I have been fortunate to meet many productivity authors who have helped others reclaim their time and lives. However, few have been as passionate about living a simple and purposeful life as Craig.

This book is about taking control of your life by better managing the time you have. It is about using the right tools to get the job done while reducing effort and stress. It is about using the right tools to find peace i n life.

Time Management Ninja draws from Craigs platform of the same name, where for over ten years he has written about time management. His international readership appreciates his straightforward strategies and simple, laser focused, ninja-like sol utions.

This book teaches twenty-one tips which are designed to help you in your daily activities and planning. In many ways, this is the missing time management class that people wish they were taught in school. It also contains lessons to help guide you to achieve your goals and in living a purposefu l life.

Craig and I connected online many years ago, after I had seen his time management blog. Once we started corresponding, I learned that I had been a mentor to his efforts. He had been an avid follower of my time management teachings, and a big user of Franklin DayPlanners back in th e day.

I am honored to have been the source of much of his inspiration and have watched as Craig has grown his online brand and become a well-known expert in the productivity field.

If you apply what you learn in Time Management Ninj a, I promise you that Craigs twenty-one tips will help you be better at managing your time and life. Whether that is to accomplish your lifes dreams or simply be more organized in your daily planning, this guide will allow you to get more done with less effort.

Time is the only resource we dont get more. I hope you follow Craigs advice and spend yours wisely!

Hyru m Smith

Author of The 10 Natural L aws of

Successful Time and Life Mana gement

and Purposeful Ret irement

I dont have enough time.

I am so tired from trying to catch up, Ill never get ahead.

I dont get to the important things in my life because I am too busy.

Sound familiar? No, its not telepathy. As a time management ninja, Ive heard this all before. But your fears are going to be conquered! Your training begin s now.

These days, our lives appear to be endless marathons of busyness. It feels like there is never enough time to get to whats important, which means we have even less time to do what we actually enjoy!

On top of that, you probably spend more time scrolling through dozens of perfect #beachday posts or chilling with your phone than getting work done with it. And even when you do finally try to get work done, it interrupts you many times an hour. (Or minute!) Its sneaky when it does it, too, so when you innocently open up your screen time report, youre taken aback. Yes, you actually did spend five hours on Facebook. What?!

But you know this already. More than likely, you have already tried to better manage your time. Youve scoured the app store, bookstore, and online for any semblance of hope, but instead found that most time management systems are way too complicated or simply dont fit in with your routine and workload. So, you stopped using them almost as quickly as you picked them up. Delete, and then move on. Its a vicious cycle. Meanwhile, your time is ticking away.

If you are tired of always rushing, letting technology dominate your time, and procrastinating when you should be working then this book is f or you !

The Time Crisis

You are not alone in feeling that you dont have enough time in yo ur day.

Everyone is too busy. In fact, our society is busier tha n ever.

A recent study found that the average adult has just over four hours per week of free time. That is not much time at all to spend on personal tasks and goals. Yet, your whole life is made up of personal tasks and goals! Those are your dreams. How much time are you spending on them, on average? Four. Hours.

Its a dreary reality. No, we cant deny itthere is a growing time crisis. Quite frankly, the lack of time in peoples personal lives has become an epidemic. People have less time to themselves. That means less time to do whats important, whether that is to work on life goals or spend precious time with family and love d ones.

Our modern daily lives consist of constant interruptions, notifications, and calls for our attention. We spend more of our days plugged in to streams of requests, information, and news than we do on the tasks that make us feel alive.

If you are like most, you spend your entire day reacting to the stimuli around you. And when you do finally reach the end of your day, it often seems like you have accomplished nothing of consequence. No kidding. You have spent the whole day re acting instead of acting.

It seems there is never any time to just think. Or to actually do what is important to you. Ultimately, it feels as though the world is in an ongoing battle for our attention. Our devices distract us dozens of times per hour, telling us about things that just cant wait. Most people cant go more than a minute or two without being interr upted.