26 Best Time Management Books

Feeling overscheduled and underconnected as a couple? Relationship experts Drs. Les and Leslie Parrott help you connect your time styles–and your hearts–so you can better manage your time. This is not a book about being more productive, but a book about being more connected with your spouse and maximizing the moments you have together.

After resolving communication meltdowns, finding time together is the number one relational need of most couples. Where does it go? We try to make it. Save it. Seize it. Buy it. And borrow it. And yet time continues to elude too many couples. At the heart of this book is the renowned Better Love Assessment, which helps you uncover your unique time style: Accommodator, Processor, Dreamer, or Planner. Once you know your time style and that of your spouse, this book will show you how to leverage them for powerful results. Your Time-Starved Marriage helps you:

• Dispel the two lies every time-starved couple believes.
• Maximize the minutes that matter most in your marriage.
• Recoup the time you’ve been leaving on the table.
• Understand why “loving on borrowed time” is lethal to your love life.
• And discover how to “get a grip on the time of your life.”

Your Time-Starved Marriage gives you tools to feed your time-starved relationship, enjoying time with each other more than you ever imagined.

Workbooks also available.

All highly paid sales executives know how to manage their time, lives, and territories. When you have the right tools at your disposal to plan your time most effectively, you’ll also start executing your plans in such a way as to get better results in all aspects of your life. This program will teach you how to get better results from each of your days.

Stop letting time slip by unmanaged. It’s a resource just like money. You get to choose how it’s spent! When you have a plan that works as hard as you do, your days will run more smoothly, and the results you get will be more fruitful. It’s not just about filling the hours on a calendar. It’s about learning how to analyze what it will take to create the life of your dreams.

In Effective Time Management you will

learn how to control and manage your time and territories to direct your efforts toward excellence;learn the strategies to develop a plan for your time that works for you;understand the power of prioritization, when and how to use it; anddiscover how to make better choices with your time.

Contents include:

Do Not Be a Slave to TimeHow to SkillsWinging It Doesn’t WorkTime BlockingWhy and What to PrioritizeCreating a Plan that WorksWhen to PrioritizeActing on Your PlanChoosing Power Over ProcrastinationA Time Effective LifestyleGoal Setting

Is it possible to work with purpose, stay in love, and raise a healthy family–all at the same time? Popular podcast hosts and founders of Plywood People Jeff and Andr√© Shinabarger share proven research, insightful practices, and stories from 100 working couples to cast new vision for the modern family.

We know the harm that comes from prioritizing work or family at the cost of the other, so what is the secret to living a fully engaged and balanced life in both work and family? Hosts of the Love or Work podcast, Jeff and Andr√© Shinabarger posed this question to 100 working couples–from professional athletes and artists, entrepreneurs and CEOs, to fashion icons and church leaders. They partnered with the Barna Group for a yearlong nationwide research project to find the answer and now, along with their own unique story of juggling demanding careers and a growing family, Jeff and Andr√© offer their findings: a new vision for the modern family and a path forward for the socially-conscious working partnership.¬†

In this one-of-a-kind audiobook, they address head-on the complex tensions in career fulfillment, working parent guilt, timing, and marital and spiritual health. With proven research, personal experience, and applicable insights, Jeff and André reveal the practices that will help you cultivate your own, individual, purpose-fueled family. 

More than a formula, Jeff and Andr√© found that work-life balance is about embracing where you’re at in the journey, pursuing your passion with your family, and living the adventure of it all together.

Graphics, reflection questions, and podcast resources for further learning are available in the audiobook companion PDF download.

For over twenty-five years, leadership legend and personal-mastery path-blazer Robin Sharma has mentored billionaires, business titans, professional-sports superstars and entertainment royalty via a revolutionary methodology that led them to accomplish rare-air results. Now, in this groundbreaking book, Sharma makes his transformational system available to anyone who is ready for undefeatable positivity, monumental productivity, deep spiritual freedom and a life of helping others.

In The Everyday Hero Manifesto you will discover:

• The hidden habits used by many of the world’s most creative and successful people to realize their visionary ambitions
• Original techniques to turn fear into fuel, problems into power and past troubles into triumphs
• A breakthrough blueprint to battle-proof yourself against distraction and procrastination so that you produce magic that dominates your domain
• Pioneering insights on adopting world-class routines that will lead you to achieve superhuman fitness and become the most disciplined person you know
• Unusual wisdom to operate with far more simplicity, beauty and peace

Part memoir of a life richly lived, part instruction manual for virtuoso-grade performance, and part handbook for spiritual freedom in an age of high-velocity change, The Everyday Hero Manifesto will completely transform your life. Forever.

You will learn how to: – Deal with stress – Face difficult moments with a constructive mindset – Remain confident even when feeling vulnerable – Be comfortable with the uncomfortable Elite athletes need to deal with multiple distractions, manage their stress levels, and have robust self-confidence to deliver podium-worthy performances. These days, it’s the same in the workplace. In today’s fast-paced, competitive work environments, employees and corporate leaders are asked to do more with less, take on bigger files, and work longer hours. The pressure to perform at your best and be on the mark is always present, and let’s face it, being consistently great is easier said than done. Whether your performance realm is the playing field, the office, or the classroom, mental toughness is no longer simply an asset. It’s an absolute necessity. Thriving at work and in life doesn’t happen by accident: there are teachable skills that can help you unleash your full potential. Mental performance coach Jean Francois Menard will give you exclusive access to techniques and strategies that he uses to help Cirque du Soleil artists, Olympians, and pro athletes become the best in the world.

Introducing The LifePass Method: A unique method of goal setting from the founder of ClassPass that will help you hone in on your feelings, screen out unnecessary distractions, and live a successful and fulfilling life based on your deepest desires.

Grant yourself permission to have the life you most want to live. When Payal Kadakia let go of the pressure to achieve a traditional kind of success, she tuned in to her calling and built ClassPass into a billion-dollar business. In LifePass, she shares the unique goal-setting method that not only changed her approach to business but to her life.

In LifePass, you will learn how to:
* Focus on what’s meaningful to you
* Embrace all parts of your identity
* Push past expectations to hear your own voice
* Turn failure into learning opportunities
* Make money work for you, instead of working for it
* Manage your time guilt free
* Build a supportive tribe of people around you
* Set actionable goals aligned to your dreams

You are meant to live an inspired life. LifePass shows you how.

The get ready, get going guide to navigating career change and doing work you love!

New York Times bestselling author Jon Acuff has drawn millions of online fans who love his refreshing mix of humor, honesty, and wisdom about the world of work. Now he offers his most important book yet, a guide to making big career changes–by choice or necessity–and escaping the horrible feeling of being trapped in the wrong job.

Acuff finds it amazing that people spend more than eighteen years studying and preparing for college but little or no time honing their careers between graduation and retirement. He offers an empowering tool he calls the Career Savings Account, which will change the way you think about your skills, relationships, character, and work ethic. He also shows that if you’re on the wrong track, you already have what you need to change it–even if your family and mortgage mean you can’t simply pick up and move for a new opportunity.

Throughout the book, Acuff features inspiring and funny true stories–not merely his own but those of friends who restarted their careers after a layoff, an extended maternity leave, or simply the realization that they were suffering fifty weeks a year just to pay the bills and enjoy two weeks of vacation. Everyone can benefit from Do Over, from new graduates to fiftysomethings and beyond.

*A “Next Big Idea Club” Must-Read Book for January*
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Rediscover your ability to pay attention with this groundbreaking new approach from “the definitive expert on distraction and multitasking” (Cal Newport).

We spend an average of just 47 seconds on any screen before shifting our attention. It takes 25 minutes to bring our attention back to a task after an interruption. And we interrupt ourselves more than we’re interrupted by others.

In Attention Span, psychologist Gloria Mark reveals these and more surprising results from her decades of research into how technology affects our attention. She shows how much of what we think we know is wrong, including insights such as:

• Why multitasking hurts rather than helps productivity
• How social media and modern entertainment amplify our short attention spans
• What drains our mental resources and how to refuel them
• The four types of attention that we experience every day and how to recognize them

While the concept of “flow” has previously been considered the ideal state of focus, Dr. Mark offers a new framework to help explain how our brains function in the digital world: kinetic attention. This book reveals how we can take control, not only to find more success in our careers, but also to find health and wellness in our everyday lives.

Supplemental enhancement PDF accompanies the audiobook.

Michelle Prince is on a mission to help people stop the juggling and live a better, less crazy life. Michelle Prince knows a thing or two about being busy. As a bestselling author, Zig Ziglar Motivational Speaker, business owner of multiple companies, wife of fifteen years, and mother of two young boys, Michelle has learned the art of juggling her personal and professional life successfully. Most people are juggling too many things, procrastinating, and not getting as much done as they want, which leads to a life of frustration and unfulfilled goals.

Michelle has learned the secret to living a happier, more abundant life, and she’s on a mission to show YOU how to stop juggling, overcome procrastination, and get more done in less time in your business, leadership, and life! It’s time for “America’s Productivity Coach,” Michelle Prince, to give you the tools to STOP being busy being busy!

From the cleaning and homekeeping expert and creator of the wildly popular Clean Mama blog comes a simple and accessible cleaning guide with a proven step-by-step schedule for tidying a home in just ten minutes a day.

Becky Rapinchuk, the “Clean Mama,” understands that many people don’t have the time, organizational skills, or homemaking habits to maintain a constantly clean and decluttered living space.

In Simply Clean, Becky will help you effortlessly keep a tidy house and build habits to become a neat person–no matter how messy you may naturally be! Simply Clean features:

-A 7-Day Simply Clean Kick Start and the 28-Day Simply Clean Challenge, to turn cleaning from a chore into an effortless habit

-A designated catch-up day, so you’ll never have to worry or stress when life gets in the way of cleaning

-Step-by-step tutorials for speed cleaning hard-to-clean spaces

-Dozens of recipes for organic, environmentally conscious cleaning supplies

-Many of Becky’s famous checklists, schedules, and habit trackers

No matter how big your home or busy your schedule, the Simply Clean method can be customized to fit your life. It really is possible–in just ten minutes a day, you can create a cleaner, happier home.

Self-improvement is a lifelong quest. We all have things we’d like to change about ourselves, which is why many people make New Year’s resolutions. Yet, research shows that only about 8 percent of resolution-makers achieve their goals. Changing personal habits is both hugely difficult and hugely rewarding. Here, Scientific American offers this guide on breaking bad habits and the ultimate satisfaction of making difficult life changes.

This program is read by the author.

The bestselling organizational guru takes on the ultimate time-management challenge—
parenting, from toddlers to teens—with concrete ways to structure and spend true quality time with your kids.

Would you ever take a job without a job description, let alone one that requires a lifetime contract? Parents do this every day, and yet there is no instruction manual that offers achievable methods for containing and organizing the seemingly endless job of parenting. Finding a healthy balance between raising a human and being a human often feels impossible, but Julie Morgenstern shows you how to harness your own strengths and weaknesses to make the job your own. This revolutionary roadmap includes:

A unique framework with eight quadrants that separates parenting responsibilities into actionable, manageable tasks–for the whole bumpy ride from cradle to college.
Simple strategies to stay truly present and focused, whether you’re playing with your kids, enjoying a meal with your significant other, or getting ahead on that big proposal for work.
Clever tips to make the most of in-between time–Just 5-15 minutes of your undivided attention has a huge impact on kids.
Permission to take personal time without feeling guilty, and the science and case studies that show how important self-care is and how to make time for it.

The New York Times bestselling author of Being Mortal and Complications reveals the surprising power of the ordinary checklist

We live in a world of great and increasing complexity, where even the most expert professionals struggle to master the tasks they face. Longer training, ever more advanced technologies–neither seems to prevent grievous errors. But in a hopeful turn, acclaimed surgeon and writer Atul Gawande finds a remedy in the humblest and simplest of techniques: the checklist. First introduced decades ago by the U.S. Air Force, checklists have enabled pilots to fly aircraft of mind-boggling sophistication. Now innovative checklists are being adopted in hospitals around the world, helping doctors and nurses respond to everything from flu epidemics to avalanches. Even in the immensely complex world of surgery, a simple ninety-second variant has cut the rate of fatalities by more than a third.

In riveting stories, Gawande takes us from Austria, where an emergency checklist saved a drowning victim who had spent half an hour underwater, to Michigan, where a cleanliness checklist in intensive care units virtually eliminated a type of deadly hospital infection. He explains how checklists actually work to prompt striking and immediate improvements. And he follows the checklist revolution into fields well beyond medicine, from homeland security to investment banking, skyscraper construction, and businesses of all kinds.

An intellectual adventure in which lives are lost and saved and one simple idea makes a tremendous difference, The Checklist Manifesto is essential reading for anyone working to get things right.

The author of Getting from College to Career reinvents the concept of management for a new generation, offering a fresh and relevant approach to career success that shows Millennials how to make the next step: become a leader.

We are in the midst of a leadership revolution, as power passes from Baby Boomers to Millennials, who are stepping into executive positions in corporations, government, and their own businesses. Becoming the Boss is a brisk, tech-savvy success manual filled with real-world, actionable tips from an expert. Lindsey Pollak defines what Millennial generation leadership is and draws on original research, her own experience, and interviews with young managers and entrepreneurs to share the secrets of what makes them successful leaders–and shows young professionals how to rise in their own careers. From learning to develop a style that appeals to your older colleagues to managing virtual employees to mastering the rules of social media etiquette, Becoming the Boss helps you identify your next professional move and shows you how to succeed once you get there.

Achieve your goals and crush procrastination with these practical personal development strategies based on the hit podcast Tiny Leaps, Big Changes by Gregg Clunis.

In today’s world, we are constantly overloaded with positive messages, such as “follow your passion,” or “dream big,” that are supposed to spark change and accomplishments in our lives. But why doesn’t anyone ever give practical advice on how exactly to achieve those lofty goals?

Tiny Leaps, Big Changes explores the reality behind personal development — that all big changes come from the small decisions we make every day. Using scientific and psychological research, Gregg Clunis shows you what hidden factors drive our behavior and gives you the tools to form helpful, daily habits to accomplish your goals.

After reading Tiny Leaps, Big Changes, you’ll know how to crush procrastination, double your productivity, and lessen the gap between what you want for your life and how you get it.

Includes a bonus DVD!

In dog sledding, they say unless you’re the lead dog the scenery never changes. But what is leadership? What is a leader? Whether you want to successfully lead a team or lead yourself, you need to be clear on these definitions. What Is Leadership? is a multi-session leadership retreat in a box. Why spend $20,000 to hire one expert for your meeting when your team can benefit from expert perspectives for the same price as a business lunch?

With What Is Leadership? you’ll be able to clearly define what it takes to be a leader and have unlimited access to the world’s top success coaches any time you want. With topics ranging from productivity and time management to positive thinking, this audio collection featuring several New York Times bestselling authors will give you the confidence to take your team to new heights and offer hours of inspiration and practical steps to power-up your influence in all areas of the workplace and beyond.

Featuring a bonus video from the dean of motivators himself, Zig Ziglar, this leadership system comprises an award-winning catalog of speakers and authors. What is Leadership? is the self-paced, proactive method for positioning yourself at the head of the pack, and making sure your scenery is always changing!

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*An AudioFile Magazine Earphones Award Winner*

This program is read by the author.

“In this spirited exploration of our relationship with technological devices, Zomorodi’s melodic voice beckons and inspires listeners to develop a deeper understanding of how tech devices affect our potential…Zomorodi persuasively conveys her compelling points on the need for reflection to make room for enlightenment in this age of technological overload.” — AudioFile Magazine

It’s time to move “doing nothing” to the top of your to-do list.

In 2015 Manoush Zomorodi, host of WNYC’s popular podcast and radio show Note to Self, led tens of thousands of listeners through an experiment to help them unplug from their devices, get bored, jump-start their creativity, and change their lives. Bored and Brilliant builds on that experiment to show us how to rethink our gadget use to live better and smarter in this new digital ecosystem. In this fascinating new audiobook, Manoush explains the connection between boredom and original thinking, exploring how we can harness boredom’s hidden benefits to become our most productive and creative selves, without totally abandoning our gadgets in the process.

Grounding her arguments in the neuroscience and cognitive psychology of “mind wandering” –what our brains do when we’re doing nothing at all–Manoush includes practical steps you can take to ease the nonstop busyness and enhance your ability to dream, wonder, and gain clarity in your work and life. The outcome is mind-blowing.

“Bored and Brilliant shows the fascinating side of boredom. Manoush Zomorodi investigates cutting-edge research as well as compelling (and often funny) real-life examples to demonstrate that boredom is actually a crucial tool for making our lives happier, more productive, and more creative. What’s more, the book is crammed with practical exercises for anyone who wants to reclaim the power of spacing out – deleting the Two Dots app, for instance, or having a photo-free day, or taking a ‘fakecation’.” — Gretchen Rubin, author of #1 New York Times Bestseller The Happiness Project

A road-tested formula for improving your performance, from one of the business world’s most successful–and productive–executives.

Robert C. Pozen taught a full course load at Harvard Business School while serving as the full-time chairman of a global financial-services firm. He’s written six books and hundreds of articles, raised a family with his wife of more than four decades, and served on many boards of local charities and public companies. Pozen is a prince of productivity, a man who has worked smarter and faster than almost everyone around him for more than forty years.

In Extreme Productivity, Pozen reveals the secrets to workplace productivity and high performance. His book is for anyone feeling overwhelmed by an existing workload–facing myriad competing demands and multiple time-sensitive projects. Offering antidotes to a calendar full of boring meetings and a backlog of e-mails, Extreme Productivity explains how to determine your highest priorities and match them with how you actually spend your time.

Pozen shows that in order to be truly productive, professionals must make a critical shift in their mind-set: from hours worked to results produced. He helps people at all stages of their careers read, write, and make presentations quicker and more effectively. He provides professionals with practical tips on how to efficiently use their time in the office–while leading full and productive personal lives as well.

You can thrive and excel when you’re working remotely, if you adopt the mindset, habits and tech tools of professionals who are even more productive outside the office: Learn to think like a “business of one,” and that entrepreneurial mindset will transform your experience of remote work.

Remote work can be satisfying and productive–once you craft a strategy that taps into the unique advantages of working from home. After a year in which many of us plunged into remote work overnight, we finally have a chance to make thoughtful choices about how to combine remote and office work, and how to make the most of our days at home.

Remote, Inc. gives you the strategies and tools you need to make remote work a valuable part of your renewed working life. Learn how to…

• Gain control over how and when you work by focusing on objectives, not the 9-to-5 workday.
• Wow your managers by treating them like valued clients.
• Beat information overload by prioritizing important emails and messages.
• Make online meetings purposeful, focused and engaging.
• Build great relationships with your colleagues–whether at the next desk, or another city.
• Find a balance between work from home, and life at home.
• Make a remote work plan that lets you get the best from time at the office–and the best of home.

Remote, Inc. takes you inside the mindset and habits of people who flourish while working outside the office some or all of the time: people who function like a “business of one.” That’s how productivity experts Robert C. Pozen and Alexandra Samuel describe the mindset that lets people thrive when they’re working remotely, whether full-time or in combination with time at the office. You can follow their lead by embracing the work habits and independence of a small business owner–while also tapping into the benefits of collegiality and online collaboration.

Are you tired of holding your breath, waiting for exactly the right moment to arrive before you can start living the life you really want? When will it be safe for you to stop working so hard and feeling stressed out, burnt out, and generally dissatisfied with life? When you get married? When you get promoted? When you retire?

It’s time to stop waiting and start living. Renowned success coach Jennifer White offers an easy-to-follow ten-step program for overcoming your fears, unblocking your passions, channeling your energies, and managing your time more efficiently. You can have it all–more time, more money, and more fun–on your own terms, starting today.