Customer Reviews
A truly excellent book - By: Dr. Adam Jacobs, 22 Oct 2008 
Many books have been described as "life changing", but it's seldom true. However, it was true for me with this book. I had recognised that my time management was very poor, & I needed to do something about it, & I choose this book to help me. Like many other people, I was really struggling to keep on top of my emails (I had a backlog of over 1300in my inbox when I started reading this book), & one of the splendid things about this book is a really sensible & workable system for dealing with emails. I have no email backlog now, & I say this having just returned from a week's holiday.
The book is easy to read & full of useful tips for not only email but many of the other things that take up too much time. I don't promise this book will work for you as well as it worked for me, because I guess to some extent time management techniques are personal & maybe some techniques work well for some people & less well for others. All I know is that the techniques describedin this book worked spectacularly well for me & have significantly changed my life for the better.
If you're reading this, Mark Forster, thank you so much for a brilliant book.
Excellent Timely Advice - By: John Powderly, 24 Sep 2008 
This is my first ever review for Amazon, which illustrates the way I feel about this book. The approach is simple & effective, however, it will require discipline & commitment to make it work. That said, you will need to forgive yourself when you do not quite make it.
This is the best book on time management I have ever read.
6 six stars - By: Ludwik Pierozynski, 01 Aug 2008 I normally don't leave comments & feedbacks for the books but I had to do it this time.
This book is really fantastic position to read.
Helped me so much. Methods to manage the time are so simple & very easy to implement.
I would recommend this book to everyone.
It works! Give it a go! - By: Sue Ricks, 02 Jul 2008 What a great concept. - this book was recommneded to me by a colleague who is having some business coaching. She is on the most highly effective & capable people I know, so when she told me about this book & suggested I read it, I took her advice seriously. I was surprised by the title as it seem to go against most of what I have read before about prioritising & not putting things off. Well all I can say is that I have tried it & it works! I like his closed list concept & some of his "how to fool yourself" concepts too. I never thought I would be recommending a book that says that, but "success breeds success". Therefore create any way to be successful & then you will become more successful. So go for the little things & build up to more. I have found it brings more joy when you do what Mark suggests & then the fun begins. I have had numerous "to do lists" & they are rapidly disappearing!
Disappointing if you do a service-oriented job - By: C. Frost, 13 May 2008 
After reading all the amazing praise for this book I bought it immediately, but I have to say that upon reading it I was slightly puzzled as to why everyone had been raving about it. I can only guess that these people are devoted fans since reading his previous work, as I found that the book was lacking for my purposes.
I did pick up some good tips, such as the use of a task diary rather than a to-do-list, & the tips on filing systems were good. The book also made me question whether I really wanted to 'commit'to many of the tasks I burden myself with, after which I decided that many of them aren't really that important.
However, my major problem with this book is the main concept of doing everything tomorrow. I think this idea would probably work fine if you work from home or by yourselfin an office, & find that procrastination is a problem. If you do a more service-oriented job like mine though, I don't think you will find the information is very applicable. He does admit this at one pointin the book, but doesn't offer much alternative advice if this is the case. For this reason I found most of the book pretty useless.
I also have to admit that I found his writing style pretty boring, he seems to spend most of the first half of the book telling you what he is going to tell you laterin the book, then recapping everything at every possible opportuntity. It felt like reading an undergraduate dissertation!
