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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:
2.0 out of 5 stars
Good Ideas (from other sources) rehashed to a prescription, 30 Sep 2001
The basic message you find in Time Shifting and in similar books goes as follows: "Manage your life before someone else does!" Especially in a period where companies start firing thousands of people, ask yourself the question if you are living your life the way you want it. Working harder is no option: especially in the US, people have already been increasing their workload in the 1990's. Nobody seems to have time for the promised "leisure economy". Personally, I adhere to these messaged to some extent, but much depends on how they are formulated.Somewhere in the book one can read that Rechtschaffen is a doctor. Generally, when one is ill it makes sense to see a doctor who prescribes what the patient needs. I don't know about you, but I don't need a prescription on how you have to organize. Rechtschaffen just rehashes the ideas that many others have written about, including Steven Covey, Ram Dass, Daniel Goleman, Harville Hendrixs, Servan-Schreiber, Juliet Schor, ... and that training programs as EST have been training on for over 30 years. That would be defendable if his book would include the best of all these sources. Unfortunately, instead of explaining connecting principles to the reader, he gives you a weak decoction of these other books. A book on this subject which has been a national bestseller is "Your Money or Your life", written in 1992 by Joe Dominguez and Vicki Robin...
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