Word: blisse
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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GETTING THINGS DONE by EDWIN C. BLISS 124 pages. Scribners...
...This book touches a sensitive nerve-how to make the most of available time. Though it is aimed primarily at businessmen who know they waste time and wish they didn't, its lessons apply to nearly everyone. One major cure for chronic time wasters, according to Edwin Bliss, a management consultant, is to write out lists setting priorities. Facing the truth tends to clarify things. Yes, indeed...
...Bliss's style is terse, occasionally leavened by anecdote. Unlike C. Northcote Parkinson and Laurence J. Peter, Bliss's purpose is not amusing originality but utility. He is serious. He refers to his readers directly as "you." He has some sympathy for time wasted, but not much. After all, it's your life that is slipping away so irretrievably...
...listing the reasons for delay on one side of a piece of paper and the benefits from completing the job on the other-and then feel ashamed of your irrational lethargy; or (c) picking an important, if unpleasant, chore and completing it the first thing every day. According to Bliss, that will soon break the procrastinating habit...
Just up the street is the Orson Welles Complex, one of the best theaters around. The Welles specializes in the slightly off-beat, and has three screens. So if you ever want to bliss out for about seven hours, this is your place. For Charles Bronson, Clint Eastwood's latest and other sometimes good trash, check out the neighborhood theaters and drive-ins in the Northern and Western suburbs...