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Beat the Clock
Topic: Time Management
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Short Description:
What if the promise you make on Monday is the reason you lose your weekend? In Beat the Clock, Dana Reyes inherits a late project, 212 unfinished tasks, and forty-two days. Part workplace story, part practical time management toolkit, the book teaches the CLOCK method through one tense six-week deadline. Learn to define “done,” cut the load, delegate clearly, plan honestly, and protect your energy. Every chapter ends with an exercise you can try today.
Book Details
Pages
139
Language
English
Published
September 2026
Publisher
amacox
ISBN
Book Details:
You say yes before you have looked, and then you spend weeks paying for it. Sound familiar? Beat the Clock is a time management book told as a story. Dana Reyes, a program lead at a home-goods retailer, is handed a project that has been “nearly done” for four months. She has forty-two days, a tracker with 212 open items, a sponsor who wants a promise, and a lifelong habit of saying, “I’ll just do it myself.”
Through her six weeks, you learn the CLOCK method: Clarify the finish line, Limit the load, Offload with ownership, Calendar the truth, and Keep the rhythm. Each chapter shows one move in action, explains why it works, and closes with a same-day exercise. You will find tools such as the Done Statement, the Cut Ladder, the Handoff Card, the Capacity Board, and the Shutdown Line, plus one-page templates at the back. What sets this book apart is its honesty. It explains the research behind each idea in plain language, including its limits, and it never pretends that every deadline can be met. Its answer to pressure is not a longer workday but clearer thinking, earlier conversations, and a plan built on the hours you really have. Its characters feel like colleagues you have actually worked with. If you manage projects, lead a team, or simply feel hunted by the calendar, open this book. Dana’s six weeks may well change how you spend your next one, and how much of it you get back.
About the author
Meet Jonathan Ellis
Jonathan Ellis grew up in Bangor, Maine, where long winter evenings and a drawer full of notebooks taught him to love words early. He studied business administration at Gonzaga University, then spent fifteen years as a logistics coordinator, building schedules for shipments that could not afford to run late. Writing began as a quiet habit of jotting lessons on index cards. Turning those scraps into a book meant wrestling with self-doubt and a calendar that never seemed to have room, a struggle that became the heart of Beat the Clock. For him, writing is a way to make sense of his own days.
Today he lives in Asheville, North Carolina, where he writes before sunrise and walks the Blue Ridge trails to sort out his thoughts. His ideas come from ordinary frustrations he notices in himself and others, and he tests each one against research before it reaches the page. His grandmother, who kept every expense in a worn ledger, taught him that small, steady habits outlast big promises. He reads Annie Dillard and Cal Newport, restores antique wristwatches, and believes time is not found, it is chosen. He hopes readers finish his books feeling calm, capable, and ready to take one small step.
