Time Management For Dummies
by Clare Evans
Time Management For Dummies
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About the Author
Clare Evans is a personal and business coach working with individuals and businesses to improve their time management, increase productivity, and create a better work life balance in these time-challenged times.
Clare worked in the corporate sector for a global company for many years. Managing IT projects and working with global teams, she understands the pressures todays working environment places on peoples time and the difficulty of creating a better worklife balance.
Now running her own business, Clare coaches people one-to-one and runs workshops, seminars, and teleclasses on the subjects that challenge our time. She frequently writes and publishes articles for newsletters and magazines such as Zest, Cosmopolitan, and New Woman magazines, Better Business Focus (a monthly Internet magazine for business advisers), and Financial Solutions (the Personal Finance Societys magazine for financial advisers).
Everyone cares about the best use of their time. Clare specialises in enabling people to achieve what they want in ways that makes people master their use of precious time.
For additional information about time management, or to invite her to speak at your meeting or event, you can contact Clare at info@clareevans.co.uk. You can visit her website and sign up for her free newsletter at www.clareevans.co.uk.
Authors Acknowledgements
My thanks to all the team at Wiley for pulling this book together. Wejdan Ismail for getting things started, Rachael Chilvers for her patience and encouragement throughout the process of writing, and the rest of the team at Wiley who edited, tweaked, and proofread.
Special thanks to Christine Brown, Stephen Cotterell, and Martin Bamford for their support and encouragement throughout the writing process. To friends and family who have checked in along the way to see how the writing was going.
Thank you to Rory Singer for the conversation that got me started on writing the initial outline for the book and for one of those synchronous moments.
My thanks to my many clients who have shared their challenges and questions over the past few years and given me the opportunity to use my skills and experience to make a difference to their lives. For all those who are always coming to me with their questions and challenges, its been a pleasure to not only be able to answer them but to see the significant changes that some of them have made.
Last but not least, thanks to my parents, who have always been there and from whom I no doubt inherited most of my skills at organising my own time. To my Dad for being able to prove that its possible to have organised chaos and my Mum for just being organised and having a list for everything.
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