Read this: The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster

I like nonfiction and reference books because you can usually learn something. Sometimes you learn things about the past and sometimes you learn things you can use in the future.
Samatha Ettus' The Experts' Guide to Doing Things Faster seemed like one of the former. It's more than three hundred pages of what it says: how do to things faster and/or better.
It includes three-page instructions on tasks like finding lost objects, finding a parking spot or baking a cake, all submitted by people who could be considered experts, like the former CBS Early Show anchor writing about being organized in the morning.
While some of the subjects might be remotely useful, too much of it seems to be plain common sense (to me, any way). Step one of raking leaves is to "decide if you really need to pick up your leaves". I did find the item on teaching your dog to sit without a leash and without touching it to be interesting, although the usefulness is diminished because I don't have a dog. To think poor Goober suffered by my pressing down on his hips!
The book might be a good bathroom reader -- something to keep a captive audience entertained. But a trivia book can do the same thing and give you something to talk about. If you tried to talk about this book you'd just come off as an attempted know-it-all.
After reading this book I realized the best way to find more time to do things would have been by not taking the time to read this book.