Suman Saha's Key Ideas from Make Time
by Jake Knapp, John Zeratsky

Use your body to recharge your brain.

If you live a little more like a prehistoric human, you will enhance your mental and physical energy.

Some tactics

#61 Exercise every day (Don't Be a Hero)

#67 Stay Hungry: Skip the Breakfast

#72 Take a caffeine Nap

#77 Get Woodsy: Get some times in the woods (or close to nature)

#78 Trick yourself into Meditating: Just take a moment and feel your breaths and count them.

Adjust and Improve your system.

Take note of those tactics that are working for you and those that aren't.

Establish your own 'Make Time' System. 

If you set a single intention at the start of each day, then you will be more satisfied at end of the day after completing that task.

Focusing on a daily highlight stops the tug-of-war between Infinity Pool Distractions and the demands of Busy Bandwagon.

It creates a 3rd path: Being intentional and focused about how you spend your day.

A Highlight should be bigger than a task but smaller than a major project.

Busy Bandwagon: This is the illusion of endless tasks.

Infinity Pools: Apps and other sources of endless (or infinity) replenishing contents. These are the endless distractions.

These days 'BUSY' is just like a 'Badge of Honour'

We are just trying to squeeze productivity into every minute of the day and forget to live more intentionally.

3 types of HIGHLIGHTs

1. Urgency: "What's the pressing thing I need to do today?"
2. Satisfaction: "At the end of the day what would give me more satisfaction?"
3. Joy: "When I reflect on my day, what experience will give me more joy?"

Some highlight tactics -

#1 Write it down

#8 Schedule your highlight

#14 Become a morning person / #15 Night-time is highlight-time.

#18 Log out - from all the social media sites, uncheck the 'remember me', reset the password to a strong one(like - gh#?56&95/g$), and write it down physically.

#19 Nix Notifications

#23 Skip the Morning Check-in

#24 Block Distraction Kryptonite: The weak point of you which can't resist (just like Kryptonite is the weak point of Superman).

#38 Be Slow to Response

# 51 Play a Laser Sound Track - a favorite soundtrack of you - will help to get into focus easily.

# 55 Make a Random Question List.