Pines and Plains Libraries

There just isn't enough time for everything on our "To Do" list - and there never will be. Successful people don't try to do everything. They learn to focus on the most important tasks and make sure they get done.

"New York Times bestselling author and business owner shares her proven time-saving habits and productivity hacks in ten areas of life to invite order, maximize your potential, and have breathing room to invest in what matters most"--

"Less is more"-or, more specifically, the less you have to do, the more life you have to live. Efficiency expert Ari Meisel details his "Less Doing" philosophy, which will streamline your life, and make everything easier. In business and our personal lives, it often seems as if the only way to get more done is by putting in more time-more hours at the office, more days running errands. But what if there were a way that we could do less, and free up...

"Meeting a huge demand, Peg Dawson and Richard Guare (authors of the bestselling Smart but Scattered books focusing on kids and teens) now provide a state of the art resource specifically geared to adults. Drs. Dawson and Guare offer expert guidance for boosting executive skills--the core brain based abilities needed to get more done with less stress. Readers will be drawn in by realistic examples, self quizzes, and science based tools for strengthening...

"In this book, readers learn to identify mental, emotional, personal, material, and time limits. They learn how and why to set these boundaries mindfully for themselves and how to respect limits others have set. Setting limits helps readers create constructive attitudes, build confidence, and foster positive peer networks. Social and emotional learning (SEL) concepts support growth mindset throughout, while Try This! and Grow with Goals activities...

Shares real-life stories and actionable resources to provide over-scheduled, overwhelmed women with advice on how to overcome complicated patriarchal models of productivity so that they can prioritize needs and achieve more while doing less.

The Colorado Department of Corrections (DOC) contracted with the National Center for State Courts (NCSC) to conduct a time and workload study to develop empirically-based workload values for Community Parole Officers, enabling the department to determine the number of CPOs required to supervise the average daily population (ADP) of parolees in the community.

Bring order to your hectic life, quickly and efficiently. Donna Smallin offers innovative ideas and effective solutions to the busy person's daily battle with both physical and mental clutter. This easy-to-follow guide includes 500 strategies that will help you make your world a more orderly place so that you can spend more time enjoying the things that really matter. Even if you don't have time for a top-to-bottom organizational makeover, you can...