Last year, I rarely spent time reading books that weren't related to research for my homeschooling website, and that's something I wanted to change this year. Right now I'm reading a book called, The 4-Hour Workweek and it is totally changing my thoughts about productivity and time management.
Instead of encouraging multi-tasking and efficiency, The 4-Hour Workweek teaches you to be more productive so you spend less time working and more time doing things you enjoy. The author devotes several chapters to teaching techniques that will eliminate time wasters like e-mail and meetings. He also speaks extensively about delegating, outsourcing and automating tasks.
One thing I've decided to do is shorten my workday to 2 hours so I have more time to spend accomplishing non work-related goals like spending time with my daughter and managing laundry. I'm going to play around with my schedule a bit this week.
Another goal for this week is to get back on track with my diet and workout schedule. I overate and skipped my workouts Friday, Saturday or Sunday, and I'm really feeling the effects of it.
This week, my goal is to continue working out on my treadmill one hour per day and stick to my healthy eating plan.
Monday, January 26, 2009
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