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We all get 24 hours in a day--but it never seems like quite enough time, does it? Morgan Tyree wants to help you take back your time with her proven time management system. With energy and enthusiasm, Morgan shows you how to organize and manage your time using her simple three-color time zone system of green, yellow, and red--moxie time, multitasking time, and me time. She shows you how to - identify your most productive times each day- regulate between essentials and nonessentials- schedule your three time zones- match your time zones with your capacities- welcome the season of life you're in- set achievable goals that align with your valuesIf you've struggled to find balance and direction in your overloaded life, let Morgan's system help you discover the freedom of less hustle and more harmony.

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Philosophie et théologie

Time management

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Publié par	Baker Publishing Group
Date de parution	20 août 2019
Nombre de lectures	0
EAN13	9781493417810
Langue	English
Poids de l'ouvrage	6 Mo

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Endorsements
“Morgan Tyree’s refreshing and straightforward approach to time management is exactly what you need to eliminate the words frantic and frazzled from your life. Her smart time zone method and practical goal-setting tips will leave your schedule and life feeling calmer and much more manageable. You’ll finally be able to breathe again!”
Laura Wittmann , author of Clutter Rehab and founder of the I’ m an Organizing Junkie blog at www.orgjunkie.com
“Morgan Tyree has written a delightful, must-read book for anyone suffering from a lack of motivation. If you struggle with time management, this book will help you break down your day into a simple yet functional time zone system. Take back your day, once and for all.”
Toni Hammersley , blogger at www.abowlfulloflemons.net and author of The Complete Book of Home Organization
“I’ve read nearly every book out there on time management and consider myself somewhat of an expert. But this one really tugged the heartstrings! It’s oh so rich and packed with not only practical tips but also profound truths. It felt more like time-management therapy! Time is truly our most valuable asset, and we are all called to be good stewards. This book not only provides the framework for time management but does it in such a meaningful way, and that’s what makes it stick. Thank you, Morgan, for addressing this issue with the precious care it deserves.”
Alison Lumbatis , creator of Get Your Pretty On, www.getyourprettyon.com
“Morgan shares a road map for determining your purposes and priorities to get rid of clutter and gain back time. With her detailed guidance, this book is a must-read for anyone who wants more time in the day!”
Becky Rapinchuk , natural cleaning expert, three-time author, and founder of www.CleanMama.net
“My rarest commodity is time. I never feel I have enough of it, and how I spend it impacts my relationships, my health, and my productivity. For anyone who is pulled in multiple directions and wishes they just had more space in their schedule, Take Back Your Time is what you’ve been waiting for. It’s a practical guide to prioritizing what is most important, matching tasks with appropriate time slots, executing what needs to happen, and making sure you restore and reboot. This book could change your life. It already has changed mine.”
Alexandra Kuykendall , www.alexandrakuykendall.com; author of multiple titles, including Loving My Actual Life ; and cofounder of The Open Door Sisterhood
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Copyright Page
© 2019 by Morganize with Me, LLC
Published by Revell
a division of Baker Publishing Group
PO Box 6287, Grand Rapids, MI 49516-6287
www.revellbooks.com
Ebook edition created 2019
All rights reserved. No part of this publication may be reproduced, stored in a retrieval system, or transmitted in any form or by any means—for example, electronic, photocopy, recording—without the prior written permission of the publisher. The only exception is brief quotations in printed reviews.
Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data is on file at the Library of Congress, Washington, DC.
ISBN 978-1-4934-1781-0
Scripture quotations are from the Holy Bible, New International Version®. NIV®. Copyright © 1973, 1978, 1984, 2011 by Biblica, Inc.™ Used by permission of Zondervan. All rights reserved worldwide. www.zondervan.com. The “NIV” and “New International Version” are trademarks registered in the United States Patent and Trademark Office by Biblica, Inc.™
The proprietor is represented by the literary agency of Blythe Daniel Agency, Inc.
Dedication
To my home team, David, Ainsley, Connor, and Berkley, time with you is the best time of all.
Contents
Cover 1
Endorsements 2
Half Title Page 3
Title Page 5
Copyright Page 6
Dedication 7
Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 13
1. Your Time: Steering Your Direction 17
2. Your Schedule: Prioritizing Your Priorities 33
3. Your Productivity: Organizing Your Day 53
4. Your Green Time Zone (GTZ): Focus Time 69
5. Your Yellow Time Zone (YTZ): Flex Time 89
6. Your Red Time Zone (RTZ): Fill Time 109
7. Your Design: Applying Your Strengths 127
8. Your Calendar: Merging Your Time Zones 145
9. Your Goals: Signaling Your Intention 163
Conclusion 181
Notes 183
About the Author 187
Back Ads 189
Back Cover 191
Acknowledgments
This book is a dream come true. I want to extend my deepest gratitude to the following:
My husband—David, for encouraging and supporting me, and most of all, for believing in me. I am beyond grateful that I get to do life with you.
My children—Ainsley, for being one of my best friends, always cheering me on, and gifting me my green tassel earrings; Connor, for your sweet compliments, timely advice, and serving as my go-to tech guy; and Berkley, for reminding me that life is meant to be full and fun and for sending me a life-giving text right when I needed it.
My parents—Steve and Janet, for your endless support and providing me with a firm foundation of faith, security, and love. You have both modeled to me how to prioritize and live life well.
My sisters—Haley, for all you do behind the scenes for MWM (I couldn’t keep pace without you); and Harmony, for inspiring me with your entrepreneurial spirit.
My friends—Julie, Jenny, Jill, Cristina, and Jena, for allowing me to share your stories and touching my life with your incredible kindness.
My editor—Andrea Doering, for believing in me as a writer and giving me the opportunity to share my tips and tools.
My agent—Blythe Daniel, for your advice, support, and most of all, for seeing my potential.
She Speaks (Proverbs 31 Ministries), Hope Writers, and The Open Door Sisterhood, for helping me realize my dream of becoming an author.
Introduction
The only reason for time is so that everything doesn’t happen at once.
Albert Einstein
Are you blazing the corporate trail, feeling like you can’t keep pace with the demands of both your career and your life? Are you attempting to balance home and work while also serving as an unpaid Uber driver for your children? Are you settling into a new season as an empty nester or a recent retiree, realizing you have more time than you ever dreamed of yet unsure how to best utilize this newfound freedom?
No matter your season, no matter your walk of life, no matter what time is requiring of you—this book is for you! If your desire is to maximize time and minimize stress , you are in the right place. Within the pages of this book, through stories and simple tools, you’ll learn how to make successful time management your reality. It’s time to take back your time!
Take Back Your Time was born from my own personal and profound experiences of living through five unique seasons. When I refer to seasons, I am referring not to the seasons of the calendar year but to the various and significant chapters of my life: from working full-time as a businesswoman, to being a stay-at-home mom (three kids in five years—hello stress!), to homeschooling my three elementary-age children, to living abroad, and most recently to working as an entrepreneur and navigating the ever-changing road of parenting teenagers.

There is a time for everything, and a season for every activity under the heavens.
Ecclesiastes 3:1
In each of these seasons, I have experienced in a variety of ways the crushing reality of how complicated it can be to manage time well. Additionally, as a professional organizer, I observe firsthand the daily struggles my clients experience as they attempt to organize, plan, and schedule their time.
Time management can seem like a complicated concept, which it is and it isn’t. Time management’s nickname is choices . And how you choose to spend your time is a reflection of your priorities. Your choices are the fabric of your life. The way you carefully or haphazardly navigate your daily decisions will, intentionally or unintentionally, ultimately define your life. What you do within your seconds, minutes, hours, days, weeks, months, and years will determine your ability to accomplish your goals, realize your dreams, and live out your purpose. Bottom line, how you approach your choices is the deciding factor between your days being either peace-filled or panic-filled.
The good news? Although it may not be easy, it is simple to live simply. Living simply requires you to put bookends around your commitments. It necessitates flexibility with the ebb and flow that life brings while also remaining steadfast and purposeful.
Take Back Your Time is filled with easy time-management tips to help guide you as you embrace your seasons of life. You’ll learn how to implement three distinct time zones into your schedule and how to coordinate your life activities and tasks with these zones. I promise that these simple, translatable tools will help you to experience less hustle and more harmony.
And, trust me, I know hustle.
I’ve been “that mom.” The mom who didn’t know the name of her son’s fourth-grade teacher—a month before the school year ended. The mom whose kitchen sink was usually stacked way too high with sticky and smelly dishes because everyone in my house always wants to eat. And unfortunately, I still have the tendency to think that I can cram eight hours of work, projects, or you name it into a four-hour time slot, which is the best way to induce an overwhelming sense of hurry.
Having experienced more hustle than I’d like to admit, I’ve learned that the mode of full throttle usually doesn’t work. Sure, I find ways to get things done. I’ll even show up on time or check off a box or two. But those hurried experiences tend to lack meaning, because I’m moving way too fast to enjoy or savor the moments. Activities become more of a blur than a blessing. Whereas, when I commit to remaining attentive to my specific purpose, in my current season, insisting that intentionality remain the heartbeat of my schedule, I’m able to realize more harmony and less hustle.
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