Would You Like to Become More Productive? These 5 Books Will Help You.
There are several ways to increase your productivity. So it is hardly surprising that you will find thousands of books and ressources at bookshops or amazon. Many of those books are really helpful and contain valuable tips. However, there are also works which you can easily disregard. I have read numerous books on productivity as well. A few of them aren’t suggestive of being close to the topic at first glance, but have been helpful anyhow. Please find my 5 personal book suggestions below.
The 4-hour Workweek: Escape the 9-5, Live Anywhere and Join the New Rich
This book can be regarded as a real classic. The author and businessman Tim Ferriss combines a good sense of humour with really valuable, thought-provoking impulse regarding productivity. The book tells his personal story in a simple style of writing. He authentically tells about the start of his entrepreneurial career and faithfully describes his way to financial independence and more motivation. Most of all, he offers you interesting solutions for more productivity in your job. His book also describes a new lifestyle many self-employed dream of. Less work through efficient procedures and focused problem management. His approaches are not generally valid, especially the outsorcing described by Ferriss may not always be workable in this form. But this is not what it’s all about. This book rather gives you a new perspective on workflows and contains valuable advice to increase your productivity
“The 4-hour Workweek” on Amazon
The 5 Choices: The Path to Extraordinary Productivity
Would you like to get the feeling that you have really achieved something at the end of each day? Then I would recommend you this book. All three authors are executives at the international consulting firm Franklin Covey. This book is accordingly practical and filled with valuable tips. Kory Kogon has been in business for more than 25 years, for instance, and is specialized in time management and communication. In this book you will be told which 5 decisions are needed to become more productive in your everyday life and in your job. The book is especially worth reading as it does without unnecessary phrases. It explains valuable tools for your everyday life, which help you to manage your time better and in a more efficient way. It will also help you to enhance your motivation.
Shoe Dog
This book isn’t a classical guidebook, it is rather a book to increase your motivation. Phil Knight is co-founder of Nike and describes the company’s beginnings. His business actually started like every other: small. He initially sold the shoes imported from Japan out of his own car trunk. The book is recommendable in particular because Knight describes the beginnings and thereby also the failures in a relentlessly open way. If you are generally interested in biographies and, above all, seeking for more motivation, I would highly recommend this book to you. It will remind you that with every success, obstacles will inevitably show up as well. It will motivate you to carry on and be more productive.
10 Secrets of Productivity: 10 Simple Steps You Can Start with Today
Small, compact and filled with valuable tips: this paperback is absolutely worth reading, especially as you do not have to spend a lot of time to read it. On the lucid 42 pages, you will get good, practical tips to increase your productivity. The author Sjard Roscher works as a coach in the field of personal development and gives examples of his own experiences in this book. The guidebook thereby is particularly authentical. It will help you to ban procrastination from your everyday life and stop postponing tasks.
Available only in German! "10 Secrets of Productivity" on Amazon.DE, and on Amazon.COM
Bachelor of Time
This book is particularly appropriate for students who would like to learn in a more efficient way. It is a good guidebook in the field of time management. To achieve more in less time without being stressed – this book shows you how you can become more productive. Tim Reichel is the author, founder of the internet platform studienscheiss.de. Every day, he deals with the question how students could use their time more effectively. You will remark this expertise while reading the book. You won’t find phrases here at all. If you are studying at the moment, have problems with time management and your productivity is worthy of improvement, you should read this book.
Available only in German! "Bachelor of Time" on Amazon.DE, and on Amazon.COM
