Effective Time Management – Using Microsoft Outlook to Organize Your Work and Personal Life

Book Preface

Are too many email messages, urgent deadlines, and stressful meetings driving you nuts? Is time running out on you? Do you sometimes feel like you didn’t get anything important done at the end of the day, because all the urgent, small stuff kept you so busy you didn’t even start the things that really matter in the long run?

It doesn’t have to be that way. In today’s modern world, characterized by complexity, information overload, and way too many distractions, Microsoft Outlook can help you to focus and prioritize, to separate the wheat from the chaff. But if no one ever showed you how to use Outlook in a really productive way, it can cause even more trouble: Reminders that pop up on your screen and distract you while you’re in the middle of something else, desktop alerts for new email messages that keep constantly nagging you, and a task list with 357 overdue red entries—no wonder Outlook puts you in a bad mood as soon as you look at it! It’s finally time to change that! You’ll learn a proven time management system tweaked for use with Outlook. It’ll help you to focus on what matters most and gain more time for important things while
only requiring you to invest a little time each day for planning.

The authors of this book are two highly experienced time management experts from Germany, the largest national economy in Europe. They help executives all over the world to become more successful and will show you how to systemize and organize your complex everyday life, too. How to turn from being Re-active into Pro-active using rigorous task planning and weekly planning. And how to create daily plans that still work even when the unexpected occurs.

This book will show you, very concretely and with many practical examples, how Outlook perfectly supports you in implementing an effective time management system of this kind. Outlook offers many practical functions that help you keep things in perspective and save a lot of time during your hectic workday—as long as you use these functions wisely and set the right priorities. It’s up to you to make use of this now—just invest half an hour each day in reading, understanding, and applying this knowledge for the next few weeks, and you’ll greatly benefit from it sooner than you could have imagined!