Getting Out from Under: Redefining Your Priorities in an Overwhelming World

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Useful tool in time management; not technology management

Useful book that will help you restructure your life

Another winner from the Organization Queen Stephanie Winston

An Original Approach to Defining Priorities

Getting Out from Under: Redefining Your Priorities in an Overwhelming World
Stephanie Winston
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From the best-selling author of Getting Organized, an enlightening yet practical program for restructuring your life to meet the conflicting demands on your time

"I should read more, I should work out three times a week, I should be able to see my child's soccer games, I should be able to do it all." Sound familiar? With a growing list of priorities to shuffle in an inflexibly short time frame and burgeoning affliction of guilt and disappointment at not being able to handle everything perfectly, Americans are longing for a prescription for relieving the pressures of an overwhelming world.

Stephanie Winston, master of home and office efficiency, has devised such a plan. Getting Out from Under will help you create an oasis of time and space in which to take a longer, more discerning look at the cross-purposes at work in your over-extended life. Whether Stephanie Winston helps you create a little breathing room in your hectic day or galvanizes you to start to make wholesale lifestyle changes, the advice, encouragement, and strategies she shares in Getting Out from Under will no doubt help you balance the pressures of an overwhelming world.

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Worthwhile reading.......2006-01-30

This was a very interesting approach to simplifying one's life. There were a few concepts I'll be able to incorporate into my own life, but I found most of it to be good in theory and not very adaptable to my personal situation and lifestyle.

Useful tool in time management; not technology management.......2005-05-27

Winston's plan helps people deal with a growing list of priorities and an inflexible time frame. She does not address the glut of technology- related information that overwhelms people today or fundamental issues regarding directions and use of office and household technology.

Useful book that will help you restructure your life.......2002-03-25

Heard the abridged version of GETTING OUT FROM UNDER by
best-selling organizational guru Stephanie Winston . . . it was so
good that I now want to go back and get the book so I can read
all her practical ideas . . . I've enjoyed Winston before (her GETTING
ORGANIZED is considered a classic in the field) . . . this latest
effort switches her from writing about "things" to helping you
restructure your life to meet the conflicting demands on both
your time and energy.

I appreciated the fact that she reminded me about the constant
need to TRAF; i.e., when you have paper, you can only toss it,
refer it to somebody else, , act on it or file it . . . this, of course,
is often easier said than done . . . but I shall try to do so! . . . in
addition, i appreciated being introduced to her BOAT acronym
for breaking very big life goals into a system of organized
tasks . . . all you need to do is brainstorm what needs to
be done, organize a strategy for getting it done, add tasks to
your daily list to get it done, and then time spread these tasks.

Another winner from the Organization Queen Stephanie Winston.......2001-02-01

I must have every book Winston has written, and I've definitely profited by them.

This book is a little harder to grasp because (1) you are not moving THINGS but ordering your TIME and (2) you don't always have control over other people as you would your filing cabinet and closets. Winston does deal with time robbers and emergencies--which are some of those uncontrollable things, and give good hints for organizing your day.

I think it is a bit ambitious to include job changing in such a book , but since this is a task that you must make time for and that many people find hard to schedule because of inertia or unwillingness or the unpleasantness of getting going on a job search, I suppose it is just as well that this topic is covered. But for job hunting, you'd probably need a more specific book.

An Original Approach to Defining Priorities.......2000-04-19

Winston dealt with the external clutter in our lives in her first few books. In this book she effectively tackles the internal clutter which leaves us feeling scattered and unfulfilled. She does this by performing "time triage" in the three main sections of the book. First, she deals with emergency situations in people's schedules, citing examples from her clients and offering suggestions and strategies on how to add time to your day immediately. Then she moves on to "Examine Your Personal Universe" and guides you through creating a solar system technique to help clarify what's really important in your life. Finally, she reveals methods for acting on what you learned about yourself in the solar system exercise. The book is clear and well-written. So why just 4 stars? Perhaps too much ground is covered too quickly, from cooperative housing to changing jobs, but her ideas are a good launching pad for effecting life changes. I needed more help with basic time robbers and did not get enough help there, but the exercises in values clarification were quite helpful. The book does live up to its subtitle: "Redefining Your Priorities in an Overwhelming World."

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A Must-Have for everyone who is OVERWHELMED Daily!

Getting Out from Under
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From the bestselling author of Getting Organized and The Organized Executive, a powerfully enlightening yet practical audio program for restructuring your life to meet the conflicting demands on your time and energy.

Do you ever feel that there simply aren't enough hours in the day?
Are you worried that your schedule gives your children short shrift?
Has your career fallen short of where you had hoped it would be by now?
Is your schedule too tight to exercise as often as you would like?
Are you frequently late for appointments or meetings?
Does the pace of life sometimes feel downright overwhelming?

If you've answered yes to some or all of these questions, it may be time to make adjustments, or even some major changes, to your life. From daily work and home-related tasks to the larger, long-range concerns of career and family ambitions, Getting Out From Under will help you break vague discontents into manageable problems and offers concrete solutions to ease the pressures of an overwhelming world. Listen to this audiobook and start getting out from under!

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A Must-Have for everyone who is OVERWHELMED Daily!.......2000-06-13

Having prevously enjoyed Stephanie's writing, I was not surprised to see her newest book, but was extremely pleased at the appropriateness of the content. Who hasn't felt OVERWHELMED by the responsibilities thrust upon them each day? This audio is especially useful for those pressured for time and desiring to frequently review specific topics such as reflection on priorities, etc. A real investment that will keep on giving back to you- day after day!

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Author: Dave Pasley
Publication: Planning (Magazine/Journal)
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Josef and Karel Capek were the best known literary figures of liberated Czechoslovakia after 1918. Josef won a considerable reputation as a painter of the Cubist school, later developing his own playful primitive style. He collaborated with his brother in composing sketches, stories, and plays, as well as writing two short novels of his own and critical essays in which he defended the art of the unconscious, of children, and of savages. Following Hitler's invasion of 1939, Josef Capek was sent to a German concentration camp. He died at Belsen in April 1945. Karel Capek became a journalist and for a time stage manager of the theatre in Vinohrady. Though a writer of novels, visionary romances, travel books, stories , and essays, Karel is best known for his plays. His last plays, written just before the entry of Hitler into Czechoslovakia, deal with the rise of dictatorship and the terrible consequences of war. Karel Capek died on Christmas day, 1938. After the success of R.U.R. (Rossums' Universal Robots, 1920) seen in London in 1923, the brothers collaborated in their best-known work, The Insect Play (1921). Both plays are satires depicting the horrors of a regimented technical world and the terrible end of the populace if they fail to rise against their oppressors. They reflect the world in which the Capeks lived and give a commentary on its grosser follies.

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Insightful Plays That Have Aged Well.......2004-06-30

Anyone who grew up immersed in science fiction (as I did) has likely heard of the play R.U.R. This play, written by a pair of Czech brothers, gave us the word and the concept of "robot." (R.U.R. stands for Rossum's Universal Robots.) It is unfortunate, however, that more people haven't read this play because it is very good.

Written in the intellectual ferment between the world wars, R.U.R. tells the story of a world where mechanical robots (the Czech word for "worker") are taking the place of human workers. Though the human manufacturers of the robots all seem to have noble intentions (apart from the desire to get rich), things get out of hand when the robots revolt against their human masters and destroy the human race. The play ends with the hope for reinvention of the human race through the robots.

Though first produced in the 1920's, it is amazing how little this play has become dated. There is an obvious formalism in the dialogue which places it in its period but the social themes and commentary remain pertinent for a modern audience. The vision Capek had which is so predictive of our modern relationship with science and invention is truly amazing. This is a play I would love to see produced.

Allegorical and satirical, The Insect Play has also aged well though its lack of conflict makes it a lesser experience than R.U.R.; however, with its flighty "butterflies," miserly "beetles" and war-like "ants," The Insect Play is another bit of clever social commentary.

Historically brilliant, literarily flawed.......1999-07-08

R.U.R. is an immensely important book for its contributions to our language and our perception. Equally, it is excellent commentary on the mechanization of work, and the quest to turn people into simple, perfect machines.

Nonetheless, this translation falls short as literature. Devoid of irony and wit, and possessing only a simple, transparent plot, R.U.R. does not equal the standard set by Capek himself with "War with the Newts."

Fantastic.......1998-12-22

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This digital document is an article from Competitiveness Review, published by American Society for Competitiveness on June 22, 2000. The length of the article is 4294 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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Title: BUILDING TRUST TO DEVELOP COMPETITIVE ADVANTAGE IN E-BUSINESS RELATIONSHIPS.(online credit card use and merchant trustworthiness)
Author: Traci B. Warrington
Publication: Competitiveness Review (Refereed)
Date: June 22, 2000
Publisher: American Society for Competitiveness
Volume: 10 Issue: 2 Page: 160

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Literature derived reference models for the adoption of online shopping [An article from: Information & Management]

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This digital document is a journal article from Information & Management, published by Elsevier in 2005. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Media Library immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.

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The aim of the authors of this paper was to identify areas that would aid in developing a better understanding of the dynamics of a customer's decision to shop online. To accomplish this, a review of the empirical studies on the antecedents of online shopping was performed. From an extensive literature search, a total of 45 relevant articles were identified. The factors that have been investigated in these studies were classified according to their similarity and patterns of their findings were identified and analyzed.

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Author: Lynn M. Goetzinger
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Author: Lyman Tower Sargent
Publication: Utopian Studies (Refereed)
Date: March 22, 2001
Publisher: Society for Utopian Studies
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