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Working Women
Getting Organized to Get the Most Out of Each Day
by Ruth Klein
Sourcebooks © 2005
256 pages
Focus Take-Aways
Leadership & Mgt. • Working women feel that there is never enough time to get everything done.
Strategy
Sales & Marketing • Working women fall into three "Personal Motivational Lifestyle" categories: "The
Corporate Finance
Traditional Homemaker, the Transitional Woman and the Achieving Woman."
Human Resources
• Distribute your time in a way that meshes with your personal motivational lifestyle.
Technology & Production
Small Business • Setting goals will help you determine what you must accomplish with your time.
Economics & Politics
• Many women look for work situations that allow them to control their time.
Industries & Regions
Career Development • It's healthful to spend time pursuing activities that relieve stress.
Personal Finance
Concepts & Trends
• If you work from home, learn to avoid distractions.
• Strategies for controlling your schedule include forming a backup team, using a
calendar and performing several tasks simultaneously.
• Other methods for using time efficiently and productively include organizing your
workspace, delegating tasks, using waiting time and making lists.
• Once you know what makes you tick, you'll be more comfortable with the clock.
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Recommendation
Many working women awake to the figurative sound of a starter pistol and race against
the clock until they lie down to sleep at night. Author Ruth Klein understands the unique
challenges that time management presents to working women. The demands of home,
family and work always compete for their attention, and they get almost no personal
time. She divides women into three “Personal Motivational Lifestyle” categories and
explains that a woman will feel unbalanced and unfulfilled if her time investment is
out of sync with her lifestyle. She encourages women to nurture a clear understanding
of their own personalities so their time use aligns with their values and beliefs. Klein
offers many useful, practical timesaving tips, strategies and techniques for the home
and workplace. The book jumps from subject to subject with little regard to flow, but the
advice is solid and actionable once you find it. getAbstract believes Klein can help you
organize your time. Just give her a minute.
Abstract
“Working women 1. “The Traditional Homemaker” – She treasures the traditional values of caring for
need to learn how her family and home. Although she may work outside the home, she considers her
to balance time, work a job rather than a career. Her satisfaction and happiness come from devoting
not juggle it.”
herself to her family. She feels this is her most important work, and resents society
for looking down upon the “housewife.”
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A Goal-centered Life
To get what you want from life, begin by setting goals. Then, give yourself permission
to achieve your objectives. Goal setting will help you determine what’s important
every day. Make a list of five general goals. So that you will think positively, write an
“Working
women realize “intention statement” about each goal as if you have already achieved it. Analyze why
how important each goal matters to you and write down your motivation. List strategies for reaching
their decisions each objective. Lastly, do one thing to get started toward each goal right away.
are…the need to
make decisions
often seems like Time Emphasis
an extra-heavy You know you are busy, but how do you actually spend your time? Try to use time
burden.”
in a way that’s in harmony with your personal motivational lifestyle, and makes you
feel happy and fulfilled. Traditional homemakers spend 50% of their time on family
and home, 30% on personal activities and 20% on professional activities. Transitional
women spend 35% of their time on family and home, 30% on personal activities and
35% on professional activities. Achieving women spend 25% of their time on family and
home, 25% on personal activities and 50% on professional activities.
To analyze how you spend your time, keep a time diary for two weeks. Write down your
“By staying
flexible, you can
activities in half-hour increments. After two weeks, categorize each activity under the
avoid being frozen headings of home, personal or work. Total the time you spent in each category. Decide
by the enormity which personal motivational lifestyle best fits you. Then, compare your percentages of
of a crisis or
time allotments with the lifestyle you chose. If your time emphasis is not consistent with
challenge.”
your lifestyle choice, that may explain why you feel fatigued, anxious and pressured.