Make Lists Not Fists - opening chapters

I'm making the first two chapters of my book on time management for students (entitled: Make Lists Not Fists - A Student Survival Guide to Stress-Free Productivity) available for free as a digital download. You can download and/or read them here.

The content of these chapters covers the basics - what I feel everyone should be doing to get organised. It's what I talk to my students about when they come in complaining of missing deadlines, or struggling to start on time with bigger projects. For most people, just putting the advice from these two chapters into practice will make all the difference. If you're really motivated to become better at time management, you could choose to read the rest of the book too, which will teach you how to set up a to-do list system so solid that nothing small will ever slip through the net anymore. Most students I advise, however, read chapters 1 and 2, apply what they learned, and find that that covers their basic needs. So start with those. If you want to go deeper (and I think you'll enjoy doing so): the whole book is available on Amazon. 

If you feel that you're already pretty organised - I still think that you'll get some tips that you can use from these chapters, especially chapter two. The rest of the book is also warmly recommended, of course - it describes how I myself work, and what I do to stay sane, and keep my stress levels at a manageable level. 

Lastly: if you liked what you read, help me with my mission to destress the world and share this blog post with others! I don't make any money with this book, both the ebook and the hardcopy are set to the lowest price Amazon will allow. The ebook is only $0.99, and I would happily offer it for free if Amazon would let me. This whole project is very much a 'not for profit' project for me. Whatever comes in in royalties on a yearly basis is usually not even enough to buy me a coffee. I don't care. I make pretty good coffee at home. 😄  What I do care about: helping people find ways to organise themselves that work. I myself suffered hugely from lack of organisational skills as a student, and would have benefited hugely if someone had sat me down and showed me how to organise myself properly. That is why I ended up writing down my own discoveries about this topic in this little book - not to make huge sums of money (I don't) but in the hope that others can benefit from what I discovered. Especially students need this knowledge, I think. But... it's hard to get the word out there. People are set in their ways, and don't pick up a book about time management because it doesn't sound - well, fun, you know? Well, I did have fun learning about time management, and I had fun writing this book, and the students who I've given it to over the years usually tell me they enjoyed it too, and many have told me that it completely changed their ways of working. So if you also enjoyed what you read, or found it useful: help me spread the word. Share the link to this blog post as much as you'd like - that way people can find the download link above, and, if they want to, have a look at the other blog posts collected here - all collected in one place as my 'top tips' about a variety of productivity-related issues. There are 'social media sharing' buttons below. Thanks!