How's the Book Doing?

The one thing they don’t tell you in Bestseller school is how often you’ll hear the question, “How’s the book doing?”

The answer?

“Good.”

After The Age of Speed hung out on the New York Times, USA Today and Wall Street Journal bestselling lists for a few weeks it dropped off the radar. It has been selling well but not breaking any records.

Books like Stephen Covey’s Seven Habits of Highly Effective People and Malcolm Gladwell’s, The Tipping Point had somewhat similar experiences. What you might not know is these books didn’t become mega-bestsellers until they went to paperback.

Enter, the Mac-Daddy of publishers, Random House.

On August 26th, The Age of Speed will be released at their lead business book in paperback form. Included in the book are new tips to help save time in our hectic lives.

Here’s a sneak peak of what is offered in this new, improved version:

Spend Extra Time on Significant Experiences - Make sure you spend your extra time on rewarding experiences.  Frequently, when we reduce the time it takes to do something insignificant, we end up using the saved time on yet another insignificant activity. Use the time saved to reward yourself. Predetermine before work or routine personal tasks to spontaneously reward yourself for finding a faster way to do something.
Example: One of Michelle’s values and key experiences is connection. When she saved herself and hour with online grocery shopping she rewarded herself with a phone call to a friend and a business contact she hadn’t been making time for.

Be Conscious of Bonus Time - If you figure out a way to save time at the bank and the grocery store, for example, do you earmark that time for something rewarding, or do you just fill that time passively with other responsibilities that pop up?

Example: Spencer uses the self-checkout kiosk at the grocery store and saves himself from standing in line for ten minutes. He then takes a moment to think how he will fill that extra time. Spencer decides to hand write a thank-you note to a neighbor who stored his mail and newspapers while he was away last month.

The Age of Speed is about understanding the choices you make in the time you have. To eliminate the feeling of being overwhelmed or to thrive in a fast paced world that demands more, you must first identify all the things that are important to you.

Preorder your copy of The Age of Speed with the complete list of tips and tricks in our time-starved lives. If the book becomes a mega-bestseller like Covey and Gladwell’s paperback then the answer to the question, “How’s the book doing?” will be:

“Gooooooooooooood. Real, real, goooooooood!”