Do you like to find ways to be constantly improving? Are you certain that there has to be a better way to handle your time, your tasks, and your everything? Well, there just might be.

Book Review: Take Back Your Time by Morgan Tyree  

 

About Morgan Tyree:

Morgan Tyree knows what it’s like to have to manage your time well. She earned her BS degree in business administration with an emphasis in small business and entrepreneurship from the University of Oregon, and has worked in the fields of marketing, management, and human resources. She blogs weekly at Morganize with Me (www.morganizewithme.com), and contributes monthly to the popular blog, Organizing Junkie (www.organizingjunkie.com). She and her husband, David, have three children and live in Fort Collins, Colorado.

About the Take Back Your Time:

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 values

If 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.

Buy Take Back Your Time on Amazon!

On a scale of cotton candy to Brussels sprouts, Take Back Your Time by Morgan Tyree is a tray of ice cubes. Whether just water or juice, each cube plunges a glass of liquid into a refreshing temperature.(Copy received. Opinions my own.)

Take Back Your Time breaks down how to identify priorities, decrease stress, and increase productivity. Morgan Tyree, in simple conversation form, offers a manageable way of taking stock of your life, work, and activities to make the most of your time. With simple questions, the author provides ways to determine your daily and weekly goals. The book also includes many worksheets and graphs for a foundation for your renewed productivity.

As a goal setter, I love the idea of a book that can help me become even more efficient in my time management. I’m always looking for ways to improve. What I like about Take Back Your Time is that Morgan Tyree gives us language for our different types of time management. While I already do much of what she shared already, I like the intentionality of the system with traffic light colors and a plan.
If you’re not much of a planner but you want to do better, Take Back Your Time is for you.

Choosing a Book Shelf

Since I was traveling through Southeast Asia while reading Take Back Your Time, it delighted me to find a home for the book on the shelf of my favorite cafe in Hanoi, Vietnam. An expat suggested that I check out The Eastern and Oriental Tea House and Coffee Parlour while I was visiting this beautiful city, and I’m so so so glad that I did.

Honestly, I allowed myself the pleasure of going to that cafe EVERY day that I was in Vietnam. So for the time being, Take Back Your Time sits on a bookshelf on their third floor!