The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24-7 [Hardcover]

Kevin Hogan (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: October 23, 2009

A simple and tested system to reduce or eliminate procrastination, meet your goals and live the life and lifestyle you choose. A radical departure from self help books, this book is grounded in research about individual productivity, time management and goal achievement. The author explains in detail why past goal attainment efforts have failed. What follows is a step by step system to experiencing a better life.
The book presents a formula in both metaphor and steps for experiencing measurable results in income, personal competence, self confidence and core traits required for getting off the hamster wheel of life. Devoid completely of metaphysical thinking, this is an approach for real people in the real world that want to have a better life.
Ultimately, the system and original methods are developed from the most current scientific research in goal achievement, productivity, motivation and procrastination. Always easy to understand and apply, this book is for the person who has tried many ways or strategies to achieve some result in life only to be turned away. The book offers a new and unique approach to living.

Editorial Reviews

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"The most scientific book ever written on personal productivity." --Mark Joyner, #1 Bestselling Author of Simpleology and Founder of Construct Zero<br /><br />"This is the REAL book about work, productivity, happiness, and profit. In four hours you will discover answers for a lifetime of success and fulfillment." --Jeffrey Gitomer, Author of The Little Red Book of Selling<br /><br />"What you've been told causes success is flat-out wrong! Kevin Hogan explains why you haven't gotten the results you've wanted. More importantly he shows you how to leverage the latest scientific breakthroughs to really succeed in life. Get this book as if your success depended on it - because it does!" --Rich Schefren, CEO, Strategic Profits

"The 168 Hour Week: Living Life Your Way 24/7 offers a system to beat procrastination and meet goals and comes from a personal development leader who blends research with hundreds of coaching experiences to teach something different about achievement and time management. His 'life plan' is based on thousands of international studies and is key to not just business goals, but life goals in general, making it a pick for business and general libraries alike." --James A. Cox, Editor-in-Chief, Midwest Book Review

"What you've been told causes success is flat-out wrong! Kevin Hogan explains why you haven't gotten the results you've wanted. More importantly he shows you how to leverage the latest scientific breakthroughs to really succeed in life. Get this book as if your success depended on it - because it does!" --Rich Schefren, CEO, Strategic Profits

About the Author

Kevin Hogan is the author of nineteen books. He is best known for his international best selling book, The Psychology of Persuasion: How to Persuade Others to Your Way of Thinking.
In the past decade he has become the Body Language Expert and Unconscious Influence Expert to ABC, Fox, The BBC, The New York Times, The New York Post and dozens of popular magazines like Forbes,Investors Business Daily,InTouch, First for Women, Success!, and Cosmopolitan. He has become the go-to resource for analyzing key White House figures.
Kevin is a dynamic, well-known international public speaker, consultant and corporate trainer. His cutting edge research into the mind and keen understanding of consumer behavior create a unique distillation of information never before released to the public.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 304 pages
• Publisher: Network 3000; 1 edition (October 23, 2009)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1934266140
• ISBN-13: 978-1934266144
• Product Dimensions: 5.9 x 8.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.2 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.4 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (52 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #366,995 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

Kevin Hogan is the author of twenty+ books and counting! He is best known for his international best selling book, The Psychology of Persuasion: How to Persuade Others to Your Way of Thinking.

In the past decade, he has become the Body Language Expert and Unconscious Influence Expert to ABC, Fox, The BBC, The New York Times, The New York Post and dozens of popular magazines like Forbes,Investors Business Daily, InTouch, First for Women, Success! and Cosmopolitan. He has become the go-to resource for analyzing key White House figures.

Hogan has taught Persuasion and Influence at the University of St. Thomas Management Center and is a frequent media guest. Articles by and about him have appeared in Success!, Redbook, Office Pro,, Selling Power, Cosmopolitan, Maxim, Playboy and numerous other publications. He was featured in a half dozen magazines (including wProst) in Poland.

Kevin is a dynamic, well-known international public speaker, consultant and corporate trainer. He has trained persuasion, sales and marketing skills to leaders in the government of Poland, employees from Mutual of Omaha, Boeing, Microsoft, Starbucks, Cargill, Pillsbury, Carlson Companies, Fortis Insurance, Great Clips, the State of Minnesota, 3M, The United States Postal Service and numerous other Fortune 500 companies. He has spoken to The Inner Circle and at the Million Dollar Roundtable (MDRT) convention in Las Vegas.

His keynotes, seminars and workshops help companies sell, market and communicate more effectively. His cutting-edge research into the mind and keen understanding of consumer behavior create a unique distillation of information never before released to the public.

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

77 of 88 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Save Your Money - Misleading, poorly written, needs an editor December 11, 2009

By Kim Skildum-Reid

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I bought this book on the basis of all of the stellar reviews, but now that I've read it, I have to agree with my fellow 1-star reviewer that all the positive reviews must have been a set-up by the publisher. This book really blows.

On the subject of the content, it's okay - nothing novel or particularly insightful. Other authors have covered the same ground and done it better. I think there are a lot of self-promoting, misleading chunks of "advice" throughout. My personal favourite is "the $100,000 idea". The author starts the chapter by telling you that for the first time ever, he's providing a $100,000 idea. I get to the end of the chapter, and I'm thinking, "okay, so where's the idea?" I went back through and found it: If you write a book and sell 100,000 copies, and you get $1 per copy from your publisher, you've got $100,000. Okay, that's not a $100,000 idea, that's just basic math. And as an author of three top-rated marketing books myself, I can tell you, that's no mean feat.

As for the book production, all I can say is holy cow. The book is poorly written to a degree that is rarely found in widely distributed books. Every single paragraph has sentences in ALL CAPS, sentences in bold, sentences in ALL CAPS and bold, sentences with italics, and way too many ellipses - as in... way... too... many. And used... really... poorly. A good edit would have gone a very long way to make this readable, and given that a very solid business book editor isn't that expensive, I have to surmise that either the author either isn't as successful as he claims, has too big an ego to let anyone else improve his work, or simply doesn't care about the quality product he's selling.

Finally, the book layout... It looks for all the world like this book was laid out in MS Word by someone with only a basic understanding of the software. It's rough, hard to read, and in places, looks just plain goofy. For instance, there is a two-page numbered list, where each number runs to at least a couple of lines. It has been laid out so that there is no space between the items, making it confusing and tedious for the reader.

Maybe it's because I'm an author and hold myself accountable to book buyers, but I can't believe that someone who is prepared to put their photo on the front of a book is not prepared to put in the effort to get the content and presentation just right. The funniest thing is that he takes issue with a number of other authors who have got those things right.

I have read the whole thing, but wish I hadn't. I'm on an extended holiday in a non-English speaking country and it's one of the few English language books we have with us, so I persevered. I'm ruing the day I chose this book over almost anything else in my to-read pile!

23 of 26 people found the following review helpful

5.0 out of 5 stars Your map and workbook to time success October 20, 2009

By Scott S, Bell VINE™ VOICE

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You have very few things in common with every other person on the planet. Having 24 hours in a day is something that is universal for stay at home moms to CEO's of fortune 500 companies. The challenge that you have is to utilize your time to get the most benefit whether working on a project or playing on the weekend.

This book is your skeleton key that opens the door for gaining time for your advantage not just for money but your most precious resource, time.

In this book Kevin gives you the formula to use your time and set your goals in a way that you will actually get done what needs to be done instead of saying "I wish I had more time". Because there is a ton of bad information people have been led to believe that what has worked for others by trial and error or handed down like a legend will work for everybody. What is great about this book is that the information is easily understood and does not require a bunch of vague ideas. The examples that are used and explained can be part of your life just as much as your neighbors.

There is a wide range of information to utilize from how to set up your life in case of disability, getting off the paycheck to paycheck cycle, motivating yourself, understanding how other people affect your plans and goals, implementation takes time and repetition, how limited time really is for you, discovering what motivates others and how that helps you, how to use a journal or notebook for your time advantage and so much more.

The points that I found most profound were:
"Nothing is more important than environment and context to achievement (page 20)" Meaning that where I am and who I am around help determine success.

The best way to set a schedule is to have all of the steps for that process or goal on every page not just on the first page of the notes so that it leaves a map to get to the next point so true success can be measured.

My concept of time has been incorrect but that notion can change and my productivity will increase.

The true issues and costs involved of living paycheck to paycheck in the short term and long term. Disability can happen to any of us and as I get older the chances of me becoming disabled increase.

Other peoples time management ideas, beliefs, attitudes and feelings impact my day just as much as I can. Theses issues can be solved by a little communication with the other person or group.

The real way to dedicate a journal to get the most out of my goals and achievements to impact my future for the long run.

To get the most out of your time from reading this book treat it as a workbook take the actions immediately and write all over the pages. For you to get the most out of your life you must get your time control in order, learn the proper way to set up goals in your schedule and how to take advantage of now.

Take advantage of this well researched and written book. Get the edge over your competitors at work, hove more time for fun and become more productive. If you have never read one of Kevin's books the information and abilities that you will learn will far exceed the investment you will make today.

26 of 31 people found the following review helpful

1.0 out of 5 stars Wrote it on his home computer and never showed it to an editor January 17, 2010

By The Happy Artist

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I had a really hard time deciding how to rate this book. If I could have rated just the content, I would give this book 5 stars. But the fact that it is written so poorly; an unreadable mish mosh of amateurish typesetting, poor grammar, muddled syntax and total disregard for the rules of punctuation I had to give it just the one star. A book is more than just it's content; just as important is it's style (as in The Elements of Style (Original Edition) by Strunk and White). I couldn't get past the poor writing style to give Kevin the credit for his admirable content.