Manage Your Day-to-Day

Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (99U)

By: Jocelyn K. Glei - editor, Scott Belsky - foreword

Narrated by: Fred Stella, Laural Merlington

Length: 3 hrs and 23 mins

Publisher's summary

Stop doing busywork. Start doing your best work.

Are you over-extended, over-distracted, and overwhelmed? Do you work at a breakneck pace all day, only to find that you haven’t accomplished the most important things on your agenda when you leave the office?

The world has changed, and the way we work has to change, too. With wisdom from 20 leading creative minds, Manage Your Day-to-Day will give you a toolkit for tackling the new challenges of a 24/7, always-on workplace.

Featuring contributions from: Dan Ariely, Leo Babauta, Scott Belsky, Lori Deschene, Aaron Dignan, Erin Rooney Doland, Seth Godin,Todd Henry, Christian Jarrett, Scott McDowell, Mark McGuinness, Cal Newport, Steven Pressfield, Gretchen Rubin, Stefan Sagmeister, Elizabeth G. Saunders, Tony Schwartz, Tiffany Shlain, Linda Stone, and James Victore. Plus, a foreword from Behance founder & CEO Scott Belsky.

©2013 by Behance. (P)2013 Brilliance Audio, all rights reserved. “Awakening to Conscious Computing” © 2013 by Linda Stone. “Scheduling in Time for Creative Thinking” © 2013 by Cal Newport.

A Great Collection of Tips

This book is a great collection of tips for the creative, easily-distracted type. Each chapter focuses in on a particularly person, some successful person who has a system for staying on task. They share their strategies. The book is a great way to pick up some useful tips on how to stay focused and get things done. But, perhaps even more than that, it's a great lesson for those of us who ARE easily distracted to learn that even great and successful people struggle with staying focused. It's not always something that comes naturally.

I will say the narration is a bit iffy. There are two(?--maybe 3?) narrators. The female narrator sounds a bit like a robot.

helpful

I will re-read this book as it offers tons of sage advice on living and working.

Helped me out of a really bad place!

I am starting my second business and was really frustrated with myself. I was just spinning my wheels and nothing important was getting done. This book made me feel better just knowing I was not alone, but gave me a path back to productivity. I REALLY needed that support. If you feel stuck, give this a listen.

it's a summary of other people's work

superficial but some good nuggets in here. good to see the common points of emphasis shared by different authors. very short though and only a few minutes from each person really. don't think it's worth a purchase.

Great listen, narrator lacking in character

The female narrator enunciated words like a robot. It made listening very difficult in places. It often was not clear where one section was ending, another starting, or Brilliance Audio / Author credentials were being noted.

Great information

This is an easy listen with many ah-ha points. Definitely some great ideas to implement.

B league advice

If this is your 1st foray into trying to improve yourself or your team good start. This like asking a local for directions, sure it well get you close but you well stll be lost.

Simple yet very informative!

This book reconfirmed in one reading what I'm learning from the combination of several other personal development readings. If you're serious about becoming your best self this is an awesome book for your arsenal!

Great way to organize your days

Fantastic self help, the voices were a little dull at times butthe material was great.

Great book packed with tons of useable information

The book is composed of some of the best lessons from creative artists and writers.

The lessons are very easy to apply into our daily lives and are being practiced by some of the top creative talents.