Have you ever browsed through a time management book--when you should have been doing something else, of course--and realized it wasn't for people who really need to manage their time? Many seem written for people who just like to feel organized, whether it does them any further good or not. This isn't me. I really need to get more done, not just feel smug about all of my habits, singing my own praises to those around me. Ugh!

I feel like I have found my tribe. The author makes some very useful suggestions in a tightly-written little book that courteously doesn't take much of my time to read. Ten brief, bulleted chapters cover common time management problem and how to control them, setting priorities, dividing priorities into achievable steps, maintaining a written schedule, finding extra time, contingency planning, getting others to help you and a couple of others that I'm going to leave out. In the interests of time. Ha! No need to thank me...

The pithy points made along the way include:

- Being in control of your time means being able to stop when you want to stop.

- Think short-term; the further in the future you plan, the more time wasted revising plans.

- Look over your plans to see what is so unimportant it can be put off.

- Keep a separate list of little tasks, so you only see them when you want to.

- Always have stuff with you so you can work through boring meetings.

- Some of your plans will fail, so make contingency plans.

- Pad your schedule so there is time to handle the unexpected.

- Nothing takes "a couple of minutes." Stand your ground against interruptions.

- Come late to meetings. Step out and go to the bathroom for a while. Leave early.

There's a little more to it, but these are real suggestions and capture the spirit of the book. Go ahead and get a copy. As this review is being written, there are several used copies available for $.01 each. If you had time to read this review, you probably have time to read this little book. Might as well and get some time back for things you enjoy.