How to Have a 48-Hour Day Book

As much as I hate to admit that I really like Don Aslett, I have to admit that he's very cool. He was also my mom's hero. That's why I hate admitting it. Dang it! But he's so right about everything.

This book is all about time saving devices, ways to get more work done, and in general how to be a "producer". I also just started reading a book about Rex Lee (old pres of BYU who died of cancer), and I thought 'Every single thing that Don Aslett says about people who are achievers and producers is true of Rex Lee'. It's almost like they collaborated and made up their own definitions of how to be super heroes. Don Aslett says, "All people who are super successful and seem to have 48 hours in a day do this." Then Rex Lee says in his book, "This is what I do each day. And I am super successful and seem to have 48 hours in my day. Like, I can still be Bishop and run a law firm while in my death bed receiving cancer treatments. Can't everyone?" (Okay, so he wasn't even remotely snotty like that, but you get the point!) Anyway, there must be something to they way these two guys live, because they are both very successful and happy.

Here's some of what I got from the book for my own life application:

1. BE EARLY. Not, show up for concerts three hours before they start (as that would be a WASTE of time), but do things before they need to be done. Rather than worry or stress about it for days or months, just DO IT and get it over with. If I make dinner and don't like it, I'll throw it out right after, rather than let it sit in the fridge until it grows mold, hoping someone else will come eat it. If I have to make an unpleasant call, I'll just make it and get it over with. If the phone is ringing and I don't want to talk to the person, I'll just answer and get it over with. I'll fix things BEFORE they break and it's an emergency. Just do everything early, before it has to be done.

2. No napping. When I get snoozy in the afternoon and little people are sleeping, I'll go do something physical and wake right back up and have accomplishment to be happy about, rather than have bed hair for the whole evening.

3. Have a frontlog, instead of a backlog. Have a whole list of projects and stuff you can be doing, so that you never have a down moment. If something gets rained out, you have ten other productive things you could go do.

4. Stop listening to talk radio all the time. I'm real bad at this. My brain has no time to think and produce. It's just processing info from someone else all the time. I've been trying to shut it off more.

5. I made this one up myself: WALK FASTER. Everyone, please! I hate slow walkers. I was in Walmart about to turn out of an aisle when a couple pushing a cart came walking by. Rather than jump in and cut them off, I stopped and waved them ahead. They didn't even acknowledge me and plodded forward at an insanely slow pace. I then had to turn and walk behind them, wishing I had just cut them off. That's when I picked this resolution. There is no way those super slow walkers are producers. How can you get anything done when you move that slowly through life?

6. Spend less time on time wasting, non productive stuff. Less time on goodreads would be a good start. So, I better go. Read this book!