The Time-Optimized Life

Time management is a worn-out cliché that needs to be replaced. 

People manage their time, but they continue to manage it poorly. Life is populated with a series of reactive responses to personal priorities and professional needs. Individuals do not control their calendar; the calendar controls them. Until there is a clear understanding that true productivity begins when the narrative is switched to a proactive mindset, 82% will continue to wallow in time managed obscurity. 

The Time Optimized Life reframes the reactive nature of time management and replaces it with a proactive method of time optimization. Drawing from exclusive data captured by a tool called the Time Management Analysis (TMA), the book walks the reader through a comprehensive system that is easily adaptable to a particular personality or experience level. 

Using it as a complete time overhaul, The Time Optimized Life allows the reader the flexibility to create a time optimization plan that meets their essential needs. Operating with tools readily available to them today, the book will change perceptions of the individual and their approach to the use of their time, without having to invest in new gadgets or software.

Time is a commodity and resource that does not stop. It can’t be reversed, and you can’t go back and get more. Investing time reading and applying the content in The Time Optimized Life will help the reader make the future feel more infinite. 

Dave Buck has amassed 30 plus years of organizational and time management experience. That led him to start Kairos Management Solutions, and the Infinity Lifestyle design program.  Dave guides business professionals, who struggle with a lack of flexibility in their life and want more quality personal time. He helps his clients craft a strategy around their current management of time, that then defines a lifestyle focused on intention, ease, and joy. Dave resides in Ponte Vedra, Florida with his wife the Rev. Dr. Susan Rose.

Rev. Dr. Susan Rose is an ordained PC (USA) minister, a certified Spiritual Director and founder of Diakonos Solutions, a nonprofit dedicated to mentoring women in ministry. Susan lives what she calls “the hyphenated life,” incorporating part-time work and school, along with volunteer leadership into a busy family life. She published her dissertation Not-Quite-Equal: Mentoring Women for 21st Century Leadership in 2021 and has written articles for The Presbyterian Outlook. She understands the pressures of women managing work, family and life goals. Susan lives in Ponte Vedra, Florida with her husband, Dave Buck.