Copyright © 2010 by Jim Randel

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Welcome to a new series of publications entitled The Skinny On™, a progression of drawings, dialogue and text intended to convey information in a concise and entertaining fashion.

In our time-starved and information-overloaded culture, most of us have far too little time to read and absorb important writings and research on topics of interest to us. So, our understanding tends to float on the surface – without the insights of leaders and teachers who have spent years studying these subjects.

Our series is intended to address this situation. Our team of readers and researchers has done a ton of homework preparing our books for you. We read everything we could find on the topic at hand and spoke with the experts. Then we mixed in our own experiences and distilled what we have learned into this "skinny" book for your benefit.

Our goal is to do the reading for you, identify what is important, distill the key points, and present them in a book that is both instructive and entertaining.

Although minimalist in design, we do take our message very seriously. Please do not confuse format with content. The time you invest reading this book will be paid back to you many, many times over.

INTRODUCTION

We at The Skinny On books believe that less is more. We believe that too many writers, thinkers and researchers tend to use 10 words when 5 will do. Perhaps that is historical. Since books have always been pretty hefty items, writers see no reason to change what has worked in the past.

We don't believe that what worked in the past should be the way of the future. Heck, screaming from one neighbor to another may have been an adequate form of communication 200 years ago, but today cell phones are generally preferable.

Our objective is to completely research a particular subject – in this case time management – and then to distill for you, the reader, just what you need to know. Not all the fluff...not all the filler. Just what you need to know.

We have read about 100 books and articles on time management and here is what we learned: the process was a waste of time! All the writings say pretty much the same thing. The fact is that there are about 50 principles of time management that you need to know...and once you learn those, you have learned what you need to know about this subject. All 50 of these principles are addressed in this book.

We are asking for JUST one hour of your time to read our book. We assure you that reading our book will be one of the best expenditures of your time that you have ever made.

"Time is the quality of nature that keeps events from happening all at once. Lately it doesn't seem to be working so well."

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CONCLUSION

We here at The Skinny OnTM hope you enjoyed this book. We would love to hear your comments. My personal e-mail is jrandel@theskinnyon.com. Thanks for your attention, and may time always be on your side! Warm regards,

Jim Randel

FURTHER READING

Here's a list of some of the books we reviewed in preparing The Skinny on Time Management:

Break-Through Rapid Reading, Peter Kump (Prentice Hall, 1998)

Creative Time Management, Jan Yager (Hannacroix, 1999)

Eat That Frog!, Brian Tracy Berrett-Koehler, 2007)

Future Shock, Alvin Toffler (Bantam, 1970)

Getting Things Done, David Allen (Viking, 2001)

How to Get Control of Your Time and Your Life, Alan Lakein (Signet, 1973)

Remember Everything You Read, Stanley Frank (Avon, 1990)

Speed Reading for Professionals, Wechsler and Bell (Barrons, 2006)

The 4-Hour Workweek, Timothy Ferriss (Crown, 2007)

The 7 Habits of Highly Effective People, Stephen Covey (Simon & Schuster, 1989)

The 25 Best Time Management Tools & Techniques, Dodd and Sundheim (Peak Performance, 2005)

The Autobiography of Benjamin Franklin, Benjamin Franklin (1790)

The One Minute Manager, Blanchard and Johnson (William Morrow, 1982)

The Power of Focus, Canfield, Hansen, Hewitt (Health Communications, 2000)

The Power of Less, Leo Babauta (Hyperion, 2009)

The Time Trap, Mackenzie and Nickerson (AMACOM, 2009)

Time Power, Brian Tracy (AMACOM, 2007)

Triple Your Reading Speed, Wade Cutler (Pocket Books, 2002)

Work Less, Do More, Jan Yager (Sterling, 2008)

Table of Contents

- Front Matter

- Copyright

- About the author

- Introduction

- Quote

- Content

- Part-I

- Part-II

- Conclusion

- Further Reading

- Remember

- Backpage