Time Warrior: How to defeat procrastination, people-pleasing, self-doubt, over-commitment, broken promises and chaos - Softcover

Chandler, Steve

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1600250378 ISBN 13: 9781600250378

Publisher: Maurice Bassett, 2011

Synopsis

Time Warrior is a revolutionary, non-linear approach to dealing with time, as bold as it is fresh and new. What is non-linear time management?Non-linear time management is a commitment to action in the present moment. It's looking at a task and choosing NOW or “not now.” If it's not now, it's got to be NEVER, or placed in a time capsule that has a spot on the calendar and therefore out of the mind.The mind must remain clear and empty of all future considerations.In non-linear time management there is no line extending from my mind into the future. No tapeworm of unfinished business coming out of my body.Non-linear time management is best expressed by Elvis Presley when he sings, “It's now or never, come hold me tight.”The old-fashioned time management programs had a huge, burdensome focus on the future. The line of tasks stretched out forever into the future. It was fear-based and it was overwhelming to have so much of a future to carry around with you.It resulted in massive, pathological procrastination. Everything got put off in the name of perfectionism. Nothing was bold or reckless anymore. Therefore there wasn't much astonishing success happening for the world-weary practitioner.But when Chandler teaches people to go non-linear, a strange thing happens. New life and energy come in. When they open their emails they don't get to save them for later. They have to deal with them if they open them. Like little attackers in a computer game, there is no longer anywhere to hide. Life becomes a great game and everything is handled right now on the spot.All fear comes from picturing the future. Putting things off increases that fear. Soon we are nothing but heavy minds weighing down on weary brains. Too much future will do that.Only a warrior's approach will solve this. A warrior takes his sword to the future. A warrior also takes his sword to all circumstances that don't allow him to fully focus.Chandler is a coach by profession, and when he works with a client who is “overwhelmed” with too much to do and not enough time to do it he will often ask them to give him an example of one of the things they are burdened by every time they think about it. The client will give him an example and they will do that thing right now. The client is amazed. The only thing missing in this client's life was a bias for action.Most people think too much. Then they compound that problem by studying the feelings that come up for them as a result of that thinking.All this time that they spend thinking and feeling they could have been taking action. In a non-linear way. Linear time starts with your birth and ends (at the end of the line) with your death. Along that long linear line it's just one damn thing after another. Then the lights go out. What was the point?Non-linear time management stops all that weary nonsensical treading on the road to one's destiny.Rather than inching along horizontally you must simply rise up. Your life can now become vertical. Now you don't postpone challenges, you rise to them. You become a warrior. And it works.How, exactly, does it work? This book will show you exactly how it works.

About this title

From the Author:

Most people continuously struggle with their problems of procrastination and disastrous time management - especially in this age of instant global connection to everyone and everything. So writing a book about how I work with my clients on this issue of "time" was a challenge. I wanted it to be a book about non-linear time management, not the standard boring "tips" for managing linear time. So I called my book Time Warrior.

The "violence" in the word "warrior" was intended. For although the work you do can be slow and easy, to master non-linear time you must pull out your sword ahead of time to carve out periods of space and silence.

Your war is against interruption and distraction.

Because if you can bring gentle sustained focus to a task, you'll never "fail."

From the Back Cover:

Steve Chandler has outdone himself. In his latest book,  Time Warrior, he turns
the concept of time management on its head.  He actually transcends the concept. 
Chandler demonstrates that the very notion of time efficiency is outdated and unworkable. 
For me this book is the best of combinations: a stimulating ground breaker, an entirely fun 
exploration and an energizing mind shift. Time Warrior is a gem - a book whose time has come.

Jay Adams, Host - EMMY Award Winning  Breakthrough Medicine and  Fight Zone TV


If you want more time, make time for this book. No excuses. It contains
the secrets to productivity and will change your life. Now.

Dr. Joe Vitale, author, The Attractor Factor


Think of all the things you'd like to do someday but 
supposedly can't because there's not enough time. Now 
imagine having your belief about 'time' being removed 
from your mind with one slash of a samurai sword. That's what 
Steve Chandler does for you in Time Warrior. He stuns 
you with the REAL reason you're not getting things done,
then restarts you with the simplest, easiest and most profound
way to master your time without wasting a second
on managing it.

Matt Furey, author, The Unbeatable Man

About this edition

• Publisher: Maurice Bassett
• Publication date: 2011
• ISBN 10: 1600250378
• ISBN 13: 9781600250378
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 245