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It's About Time

Valorie Burton

It's About Time

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It's About Time analyzes the difficult relationship we have established with time: we don't care enough about how we "spend" it,  and our  risk of wasting it is increasing. Technology, some social conventions and the tendency to confuse what is urgent with what is meaningful put our happiness at risk, leading us to spend time on activities that are not. The simple actions of noticing   and reflecting on how we are living, are the fundamental tools for taking back  possession of our most precious asset: time.

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Analysis and key concepts

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There is an unbreakable link between time and happiness

02.

Living timelessly

03.

The new normal is not normal

04.

Living under pressure, a threat to the little ones

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Urgent and false urgencies

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Time poverty

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Does technology give or steal time?

08.

Let's make peace with lost time

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Where wrong decisions come from

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Three enemies: procrastination, perfectionism and optimism

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Use some time to build your compass

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Quotes

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Take-home message

01. There is an unbreakable link between time and happiness

The author invites readers to walk this path with her, sharing her experience to open your eyes to the insidious nature of our problem with time. It is a problem that emerged as we went from living according to the cycles of nature to being carried away by the unsustainable rhythm imposed by the technological age.

Stress and despair are only symptoms, what should frighten us is the idea of living a life in which time is spent on things that seem important, and that only when we look back, do they show themselves for what they really are: hollow. Only by looking back we can understand that we have overlooked what was really important.

02. Living timelessly

03. The new normal is not normal

04. Living under pressure, a threat to the little ones

05. Urgent and false urgencies

06. Time poverty

07. Does technology give or steal time?

08. Let's make peace with lost time

09. Where wrong decisions come from

10. Three enemies: procrastination, perfectionism and optimism

11. Use some time to build your compass

12. Quotes

13. Take-home message

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Many useful tips to:

  • Take your life back by establishing harmonious rhythms.
  • Learn to distinguish between urgent and meaningful.
  • Reflect on the value of time and learn to respect it.

Valorie Burton is a life coach, meaning a motivational consultant. Author of numerous books dedicated to personal growth, she founded the Coaching and Positive Psychology Institute. She regularly appears on CNN and HLN TV channels and has written for Oprah Magazine. Her texts aim at helping readers find joy while facing the challenges posed by modern life, offering practical tools to find satisfaction and purpose in work and in private life.

Publishing house:

Thomas Nelson Inc

Year:

2019

Pages:

272

ISBN:

978-0785220183