Invert Time Management; Schedule Energy

One can not manage Time. Why we talk like this is possible, might just lead to a billion dollar self help industry. Or we could invert the way we talk and think…

Scheduling Your Energy, Not Your Time By Scott Adams

Yes that Scott Adams!

In that short article Scott give you his secret to success - it's basically free.  Now you could go out and buy a book like one of these to get other advice about your time usage.  Or - you could start by taking his (free) advice ... the decision is yours; but it's past time to make it.

The Time Of Your Life | RPM Life Management System $395 by Tony Robbins

100 Time Savers (2016 Edition) [obviously time sensitive information]

Tell Your Time: How to Manage Your Schedule So You Can Live Free by Amy Lynn Andrews

See Also:
I'm Dysfunctional, You're Dysfunctional by Wendy Kaminer. 

   "The book is a strong critique of the self-help movement, and focuses criticism on other books on the subject matter, including topics of codependency and twelve-step programs. The author addresses the social implications of a society engaged in these types of solutions to their problems, and argues that they foster passivity, social isolation, and attitudes contrary to democracy."


The Hummingbird Effect: How Galileo Invented Timekeeping and Forever Changed Modern Life by Maria Popova.  How the invisible hand of the clock powered the Industrial Revolution and sparked the Information Age.

"While we appreciate it in the abstract, few of us pause to grasp the miracles of modern life, from artificial light to air conditioning, as Steven Johnson puts it in the excellent How We Got to Now: Six Innovations That Made the Modern World (public library), “how amazing it is that we drink water from a tap and never once worry about dying forty-eight hours later from cholera.” Understanding how these everyday marvels first came to be, then came to be taken for granted, not only allows us to see our familiar world with new eyes — something we are wired not to do — but also lets us appreciate the remarkable creative lineage behind even the most mundane of technologies underpinning modern life."