The First 2 Hours: Make better use of your most valuable time - Softcover

McGeorge, Donna

Softcover

ISBN 10: 073035959X ISBN 13: 9780730359593

Publisher: Wiley, 2019

Synopsis

Do your most important work when you are your most resourceful

Are you drowning in email? Overloaded with calendar invitations? Frustrated by wasteful meetings and an ever-growing workload? Then you know that being busy does not mean being productive. Most workers are being asked to take on more responsibilities with less support, advised to simply ‘be innovative.’ But you only have a finite amount of energy and thinking capacity available to you in a day. Most of us are wasting it on things that aren't contributing to our most important work: the activities that require problem solving, decision making and critical thinking.

Developed for business professionals, The First Two Hours teaches you how to design your day, rather than be at the mercy of it. Using research on neuroscience, energy flow and the body’s natural rhythms, it divides the workday into manageable blocks and helps you determine when you are most resourceful, and therefore when you should complete your most demanding tasks.

• Optimize your day in blocks of two hours
• Take back control of your work life by creating a workflow designed for you
• Do your most important work at the right time of day so it gets the resources it deserves
• Decide when you need to be ’on’ and when you can be ’available’ so you can maximise productivity

In a time of near-constant information overload, this practical handbook helps you focus on getting done what you need to get done, when you are best able to do it. By learning to invest your energy strategically, you can be in the driver’s seat every work day and achieve a level of productivity beyond what you thought possible.

The First 2 Hours is the second book in Donna McGeorge’s It’s About Time series. With The 25-Minute Meeting, you’ll learn to give your meetings purpose and stop them wasting your time; with The First 2 Hours, you’ll find the best time of the day to do your most productive work; and with The 1-Day Refund, you’ll discover how to give yourself the extra capacity to think, breathe, live and work.

 

About this title

About the Author

DONNA McGEORGE is the productivity coach. She is obsessed with helping people make their work work. She uses a creative and practical approach to improve workplace efficacy and challenges traditional thinking on leadership, productivity, and working smarter.

From the Back Cover

GET MORE DONE WITH YOUR DAY

The First 2 Hours is essential reading for anyone seeking to enhance their efficiency and avoid common productivity traps. Author Donna McGeorge draws on research from neuroscience, energy flow and the body’s natural rhythms to reveal how to divide your workday into 2-hour blocks to match the level of intensity and impact required.

Learn how to:

• recognise the habits holding you back
• maximise your first 2 hours and set yourself up for daily success
• build on your body’s strengths for better performance
• track your patterns and create a personalised workflow
• discover the optimum time of day for new business, meetings, emails, projects and more.

The way you plan your day is the key to your productivity and The First 2 Hours shows you how to do great work, consistently.

From the Inside Flap

GET MORE DONE WITH YOUR DAY

The First 2 Hours is essential reading for anyone seeking to enhance their efficiency and avoid common productivity traps. Author Donna McGeorge draws on research from neuroscience, energy flow and the body's natural rhythms, to reveal how to divide your workday into 2-hour blocks to match the level of intensity and impact required.

Learn how to:

• recognise the habits holding you back
• maximise your first 2 hours and set yourself up for daily success
• build on your body's strengths for better performance
• track your patterns and create a personalised workflow
• discover the optimum time of day for new business, meetings, emails, projects and more.

The way you plan your day is the key to your productivity and The First 2 Hours shows you how to do great work, consistently.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wiley
• Publication date: 2019
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 073035959X
• ISBN 13: 9780730359593
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 176