Time Rich
Do Your Best Work, Live Your Best Life
Steve Glaveski
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Time Rich
Do Your Best Work, Live Your Best Life
Steve Glaveski
About This Book
Recover wasted time and start living your fullest life Most of us wouldn't dare give away our money, but when it comes to time, we let it go without a second thought. Business and creative professionals often dedicate long hours to their work, with little to show for it. We take on more than we should, we treat everything as urgent, and we attend pointless meetings. This book can help you see where you might be sabotaging your own goals. Time Rich helps you identify where you're losing personal time and mismanaging career time. Through practical productivity tools and techniques, author and entrepreneur Steve Glaveski will show you how to be more productive at work, have more time to pursue your personal and life goals, and build a culture that supports achieving objectives without risking burnout. Learn how to: •Identity how you are wasting time
•Manage your attention, get into the zone and stay there longer
•Prioritise, automate and outsource tasks
•Optimise your mind and body Time Rich is a blueprint for recovering your work hours, achieving more and spending time where it matters most.
'Steve Glaveski understands something that few leaders have figured out: it's possi¬ble to do less and get more done. This book offers a blueprint for working smarter.'
Adam Grant, New York Times best-selling author of Originals and Give and Take, and host of the chart-topping TED podcast WorkLife 'Time isn't money; it's something of far more value. Glaveski makes the case that we ought to be protecting our time much more than we product other resources. And best of all, he shows you how.'
David Burkus, author of Under New Management 'Steve Glaveski offers countless ways to get more out of each day by being Time Rich.'
Nir Eyal, best-selling author of Hooked and Indistractable 'Time Rich by Steve Glaveski makes a compelling argument for abandoning the archaic historical artefact of an 8 hour work-day (or any other arbitrary sum of time) as outmoded and irrelevant to the way we live and do our best work today. Glaveski offers both big ideas and specific techniques to contain or eliminate such time-snatching demons as meetings, email and social media. Reclaim the value of your time by forsaking the management of it and learning instead to manage energy, efficiency and attention — inputs with far greater impact on output and outcomes, not to mention quality of life.'
Whitney Johnson, award-winning author of Disrupt Yourself and Build an A-Team 'Time Rich is a fascinating look into why we're all so 'busy' — and how to gain back our most precious resource. Whether you're a beginner or a seasoned productivity geek, this book will change your life.'
Jonathan Levi, author, podcaster, and founder of SuperHuman Academy 'A very worthwhile read for ambitious professionals to achieve that elusive work-life holy grail: being present and engaged at home without sacrificing anything on the work front — and even, perhaps, becoming more productive than you ever thought you could be.'
Andy Molinsky, award-winning author of Global Dexterity and Reach
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Part 1
How we got here
CHAPTER 1
Origins of the eight-hour workday
- James Watt developed the steam engine in the 1760s, which paved the way for rapid advancements in factory output as well as both commercial and passenger transportation.
- Edmund Cartwright gave us the power loom in 1787, enabling mass production of cloth.
- Richard Trevithick invented the steam train in 1806, followed by George Stephenson’s Rocket in 1829.
- Abraham Darby developed smelting iron, enabling higher production of iron for buildings and the railways that Stephenson’s Rocket would travel on.
- Thomas Telford and John McAdam developed tarmacked roads, with strong foundations, a smooth surface and proper drainage.
- Michael Faraday, Thomas Edison and Nikola Tesla’s work combined to give us the electricity we know today, convertible to heat, light and motion.
- Alexander Graham Bell gave us the telephone in 1876, and Guglielmo Marconi the radio in 1895.
From the cradle to the coal mine
I have been driving horses since I was seven but for one year before that I looked after an air door. I would like to go to school but I am too tired as I work for twelve hours.Philip Davies, aged 10, Dinas Colliery, RhonddaWe are doorkeepers in the four-foot level. We leave the house before six each morning and are in the level until seven o’clock and sometimes later. We get 2 p a day and our light costs us 2½ p a week. Rachel was in a day school and she can read a little. She was run over by a dram a while ago and was home ill a long time, but she has got over it.Elizabeth Williams, aged 10 and Mary and Rachel Enoch, 11 and 12 respectively, Dowlais Pits, MerthyrWhen I got my fingers fast it was awful. I went through so much pain and I was only a little girl and, of course I couldn’t work. I lost four fingers in all … that was the end of my career in cotton.Oldham cotton mill worker