reviews-timelock

Read the book Timelock, by Ralph Keyes, to find out “how life got so hectic and what you can do about it.” This book provides a positive prescription for balancing the demands of work and home life in an increasingly time-pressured era. Arthur K. Weathers, Jr., DDS, editor

Keyes presents a scary shopping list of what can happen to people who work too much. My favorite was a short section on the risks of fast eating. Not of fast food — the danger of fried, sugar-ridden junk food is old news — but of gobbling food so rapidly that it isn’t chewed adequately …

Keyes offers a thoughtful list of approaches to change in his final chapter, “The Timelock Antidote Handbook.” Some highlights: Decelerate — slow down. Achieve more by doing less; when you do too much, you do nothing well. Unlearn how to do two things at once — your concentration will improve. Pay attention to yourself — …

According to Keyes, “timelock” is the state of having so many demands on our time that it’s impossible to extract one more second from an overjammed day. He traces the incredible shrinking day from the invention of the sundial to the proliferation of electronic agendas. Technology enables us to do several things at once, but …