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Do you think you are efficient or
do you waste time?
a Read the text and answer these
questions.
'Wasting time is like wasting telephone numbers, Ioohing fot
I What is the text about?
money.' This is the slogan of pieces of paper on their deshs, and
2 Who is Sam Flowers?
Time Management Systems. walking from one part of a building
I What is the result of wasting time?
to another. These can r.vaste hours
4 What do you do with a time log? of yout day. Then you haven't got
5 Why do people use them? time fcrr the impottant things. This
b Think about your own life. Do you applies to both yout professional
and yout petsonal life.'
agree with Sam Flowers?
The fir*r.rep rowards managing
2 Irnagine a typical day in your life. rour rime berrer is keeping a rimc
1og. In a time 1og vou tecotd
a Make a time log for it. (See 3b for an
everything that you do during the
example.) day. Then you calculate how much
b Discuss your time log with a partner. time you sperit ofl each thing -
travel[ing. relephonins. earing,
What differences and similarities are
chatting, washing, writing letters,
there?
etc. '\When they do a time log', says
3 Where did the morning go? 'Most people,' says Sam Flowers of Sam Flowers, 'most people are
TMS, 'wa'Le roo much time on amazed at how much time they
a Look at the photographs. What is doing rrrr ial thing. lrke finding waste.'
I(ate doing in each one?

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