Oooooh, an article in the New York Times - or, as I call it, "The Times" - highlighting several books about time management I mean wow that's fascinating zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz.
Of course linking to this is merely a non-veiled excuse to remind yall that one of my all-time treasured, going-in-my-box-to-the-boneyard books is Cheaper By the Dozen, of which the father is a time efficiency expert who, for instance, tries to save time shaving by using two razors at once before deciding he wastes even MORE time cleaning up the blood afterwards. If you have never read this book, read it now. You'll laugh, and you'll cry. But mostly you'll laugh as it's laugh-out funny:
“Dad himself used to tell a story about one time when Mother went off to fill a lecture engagement and left him in charge at home. When Mother returned, she asked him if everything had run smoothly.
Didn't have any trouble except with that one over there,' he replied. 'But a spanking brought him into line.'
Mother could handle any crisis without losing her composure.
That's not one of ours, dear,' she said. 'He belongs next door.”
And it's the ONLY book that even ostensibly touches on time management skills that Xmastime will officially endorse.
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