Time Mastery

Move Beyond Time Management Become a Time Master Have you tried the latest time management techniques and still feel overwhelmed? Are you fed up with having to 'think' about prioritising, decision making and squeezing things in? Do you wish life would just flow better? Then this is the book for you. This book will allow you to master your own time and not be controlled by other people's priorities. Understand how your own preferences, style and interests impact how you use your time and be able to: - Incorporate simple changes in your day to day activities that give you back control. - Learn how other people see time and how you can use that to help them become more efficient and effective. - Make the most of your time for the things that are important to you. Whether you want to get more done at work, delegate better, manage the priorities at home or just spend more time doing things that bring you joy, Karen and John will help you develop an approach to time that is efficient and fits with your unique personality.

Before they set up Monkey Puzzle Training & Consultancy in 2007, Karen and John both had successful careers in business. Karen worked in fund management and John was a chartered accountant and financial director on the board of many companies. Whilst studying for her MBA, Karen became fascinated by the psychological make-up of people who are great at what they do and used her knowledge to recruit and train for all types of roles in her organisation. John had always been more interested in people than accounting and used his sense of humour and depth of understanding to help businesses and business owners be successful and live more fulfilling lives. Then they met. Karen and John are not academics. What they do is take the latest scientific and academic thinking out there and make it usable. They integrate this thinking with their own experience, business understanding and psychological training, make it practical, easy to understand and translate it into something people can do something with. Their goal is that people bring more of themselves to their lives, make their lives easier and be successful in whatever they choose to do. Before they set up Monkey Puzzle Training & Consultancy in 2007, Karen and John both had successful careers in business. Karen worked in fund management and John was a chartered accountant and financial director on the board of many companies. Whilst studying for her MBA, Karen became fascinated by the psychological make-up of people who are great at what they do and used her knowledge to recruit and train for all types of roles in her organisation. John had always been more interested in people than accounting and used his sense of humour and depth of understanding to help businesses and business owners be successful and live more fulfilling lives. Then they met. Karen and John are not academics. What they do is take the latest scientific and academic thinking out there and make it usable. They integrate this thinking with their own experience, business understanding and psychological training, make it practical, easy to understand and translate it into something people can do something with. Their goal is that people bring more of themselves to their lives, make their lives easier and be successful in whatever they choose to do.

After learning Time Mastery with Karen, our partners came away with productivity protocols we could implement in the practice straightaway. This makes us both productive and consistent as a senior team whilst still leaving space for our individual styles and ways of working. Really important for us as a growing business.


By following Karen & John’s methodology, leaders not only master their own time, they become an excellent efficiency role model for others. This improved everyone’s productivity and results at EdenTree, allowing us to focus on our mission of delivering ‘Profits with Principles’ for our clients.

This book will help you make managing time an unconscious competence - leaving you space to get on with your life.

You can attend every time management course going and still not get back the fulfilment you seek from the hours that you spend. What Karen and John have done in Time Mastery is to unblock those things that will always undermine your best efforts if you do not address them. This book shows you, both conceptually and practically, how understanding your resources, your personal rhythm, and the way you communicate with others, you can enjoy an energised and productive life. You’ll want to have a notebook to hand to get the most from this deceptively simple book. Do the structured thinking that Karen and John have laid out, and you will get more from this book than a lifetime of productivity courses.