Three ways to pick a highlight: 1) Urgency: “What’s the most important thing I have to do today?” 2) Satisfaction: “Which highlight will bring me the most satisfaction?” 3) Joy: “What will bring me the most joy?”.It is the focus on your attention and energy. The highlight gives your day a focal point.
“When you look back on your day, what activity or accomplishment or moment do you want to savor? That’s your highlight.” (p.34).4) Reflect on the day with a few simple notes. 3) Build energy throughout the day to stay in control of your time and attention. 2) Act and be laser-focused on that highlight. Make Time is 4 steps repeated daily: 1) Select a single highlight around which to prioritize your day.“Distraction is quite literally a full-time job.” (p.5).Defaults are everywhere: why do work meetings default to 30 or 60 minutes? Why must we reply immediately when texted? Authors urge you to create your own defaults. “Most of our time is spent by default.” Busy Bandwagon and Infinity are the defaults for most people.2) Infinity Pools: Social media, apps, other sources of endless content. overstuffed calendars, endless to-do lists, overflowing email inboxes). Two powerful forces compete for your time: 1) The Busy Bandwagon: Culture of busy-ness (e.g.“It’s a framework designed to help you actually create more time in your day for the things you care about…” (p.3) Verdict: This is a solid choice for someone starting their productivity and time-management journey. Book is peppered with interesting (and sometimes funny) drawings and diagrams.Ĭons: Quality of the tactics can be uneven and many are redundant (as with most books of this sort, the diet and exercise recommendations should be taken with a grain of salt). Pros: Easy to read, practical, not dogmatic (the authors tell you to pick and choose and experiment with the tactics that make sense for you). The remainder of the book is devoted to the 87 tactics designed to facilitate this process. The core of Make Time is a daily process in which you (1) select one primary goal for that day called your “highlight”, (2) apply laser focus on accomplishing that highlight, (3) ensure sufficient mental and physical energy to sustain your focus and (4) review the process and make necessary adjustments. The authors’ contention is that countering distraction is key to uncovering more time. overstuffed calendars, endless to-do lists, overcommitment) and “Infinity Pools” (endless wells of content like social media, news, television, etc.). The obstacles to implementing this framework are twin distractions the authors call the “Busy Bandwagon” (e.g. Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky (2018) is a framework for finding the time to do what matters most to us.
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