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A TIME MANAGEMENT SYSTEM BY BENNETT MORGAN
There is an hour in your day that you are already losing.
The 25th Hour shows you where that hour goes, how to take it back, and what to do with it once it's yours. A practical method built for ordinary weeks, tired evenings included.
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The Leak
The Leak
How much is your
leak worth?
Most people lose sixty to ninety minutes a day to meetings they didn't need, scrolling they won't remember, and work they redo or over-polish. Move the slider to see what your leak costs you in a year.
250
Hours a year, workdays only
365
Hours a year, every day
6.3
Working weeks a year
Calculation based on 250 workdays a year.
The five leaks
Your hour leaks in five ways.
The book names them so you can measure them. Every minute you lose fits one of these five.
Friction
Starting, stopping, searching, switching, and redoing. Each piece feels like real work while it happens.
Other People
Meetings, requests, and favors you accepted by default.
Over-service
The extra polish nobody asked for. Perfectionism dressed up as diligence.
Phantom
Time you cannot account for. Often the largest leak of all.
The Method
The 25th Hour Method
Five steps that run as a loop. Each one has its own chapters and its own worksheet.
01
Audit.
Find the leak. Log three ordinary days and measure where your time actually goes.
02
Cut.
Kill it, cap it, or hand it off. Remove work, using prioritization and delegation as tools for doing less.
03
Protect.
Fence the hour. Time blocking, focus routines, and ready-made lines for saying no.
04
Invest.
Put the hour into one thing that compounds: a skill, a project, your health, your career.
05
Adjust.
Reconcile every Friday in ten minutes, then run the loop again.
Inside the book
What you get inside
- Five step-by-step worksheets, collected again at the back of the book
- Word-for-word scripts for declining meetings, handling interruptions, and talking to your manager about workload
- Chapters on procrastination, habits, willpower, focus, and work-life balance
- Meeting triage and focus strategies for office, remote, and hybrid work
- Three detailed case studies with full numbers, setbacks, and recovery
- A one-page, 30-day plan to put the method to work
- Introduction
- 1. Understanding Time
- 2. The Psychology of Productivity
- 3. Principles of Effective Time Management
- 4. Tools and Techniques for Better Time Management
- 5. Organizing Your Personal Life
- 6. Time Management in the Workplace
- 7. Long-Term Time Management
- 8. Case Studies
- 9. Overcoming Time Management Challenges
- 10. Your Personal Time Management Plan
- Conclusion
- Appendix
Free Chapter
Start with the Audit.
Read Chapter 1 free.
Chapter 1 walks you through the first step of the method and ends with Worksheet 1, the Time-Log and Leak Report. Run it over three ordinary days and you will know your daily leak in minutes.