Make Time Your Employee

A Biblical and Practical Guide to Mastering Your Time, Priorities, Habits, Work, and Legacy

Make Time Your Employee is a practical, biblically grounded guide to using time with greater intention, discipline, and purpose. Dr. John M. Hartinger challenges readers to stop allowing schedules, interruptions, and other people’s priorities to control their lives and instead learn how to make their time serve what matters most.

The book shows readers how to manage time as a stewardship responsibility by identifying priorities, auditing where time is going, turning goals into scheduled actions, building productive habits, eliminating distractions, setting boundaries, and protecting focused work. It also explores the value of delegation, automation, systems, and technology as tools for creating greater capacity and reducing unnecessary demands on attention.

Rather than defining productivity as simply doing more, the manuscript emphasizes aligning time with deeper priorities such as faith, family, health, service, work, and long-term purpose. Readers are encouraged to protect important relationships, manage technology intentionally, and recognize that small, repeated investments of time can compound into stronger skills, reputation, relationships, and meaningful results.

A major theme is legacy. The book shows how time invested in children, future leaders, businesses, ministries, knowledge, relationships, and service can produce results that last far beyond a single day. Its daily and weekly time-management framework helps readers connect ordinary calendar decisions with the larger life they are trying to build.