Time for Success

In 1997 I completed work on my doctoral dissertation at UCLA. Ask around: these things take a massive effort. They require meticulous research, tight logic that is supported by evidence and clearly cited research literature in the field, and - when you think you're done - you have to defend your work (that's actually the term academics use) to a committee of experts in the field.

The finished work looked like this: 

No one wants to read that. Especially when it's technical, and the first few pages look like this:

 

But something happened while I was researching and writing about school calendar reform. I learned about how people perceive and use time to achieve their individual and organizational goals. And I realized that, up until that point, my ideas about "time management" were all wrong. I felt like I'd discovered a better way to participate in my own life, and I wanted to share it with other people, so I took the best parts of the work and put it into a snazzier cover. Now I want to share it with you:

Chapter 2