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About Make Time Book
From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint comes “a unique and engaging read about a proven habit framework [that] readers can apply to each day” (Insider, Best Books to Form New Habits).
“If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.”—Charles Duhigg, author of The Power of Habit
Nobody ever looked at an empty calendar and said, "The best way to spend this time is by cramming it full of meetings!" or got to work in the morning and thought, Today I'll spend hours on Facebook! Yet that's exactly what we do. Why?
In a world where information refreshes endlessly and the workday feels like a race to react to other people's priorities faster, frazzled and distracted has become our default position. But what if the exhaustion of constant busyness wasn't mandatory? What if you could step off the hamster wheel and start taking control of your time and attention? That's what this book is about.
As creators of Google Ventures' renowned "design sprint," Jake and John have helped hundreds of teams solve important problems by changing how they work. Building on the success of these sprints and their experience designing ubiquitous tech products from Gmail to YouTube, they spent years experimenting with their own habits and routines, looking for ways to help people optimize their energy, focus, and time. Now they've packaged the most effective tactics into a four-step daily framework that anyone can use to systematically design their days. Make Time is not a one-size-fits-all formula. Instead, it offers a customizable menu of bite-size tips and strategies that can be tailored to individual habits and lifestyles.
Make Time isn't about productivity, or checking off more to-dos. Nor does it propose unrealistic solutions like throwing out your smartphone or swearing off social media. Making time isn't about radically overhauling your lifestyle; it's about making small shifts in your environment to liberate yourself from constant busyness and distraction.
A must-read for anyone who has ever thought, If only there were more hours in the day..., Make Time will help you stop passively reacting to the demands of the modern world and start intentionally making time for the things that matter.
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Make Time Tactics
The author shares main four key ideas for 'Make Time'.
- HIGHLIGHT
- LASER
- ENERGIZE
- REFLECT
In this book, the author shares more than 80 tactics for all the ideas and tells us to choose those that fitted you the most by try those tactics in your daily life.
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LASER
If you create barriers around Busy Bandwagon and Infinity pools, then you will focus your attention like a laser beam.
"When distractions are hard to access, you don't have to worry about willpower, you can channel your energy into valuing time instead of wasting it."
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ENERGIZE
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.
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The "Make Time" Framework
Make Time is a framework that can help you create more time for the things you find important, in 4 steps, repeated every day:
- Highlight: Pick a single activity to prioritize in your schedule.
- Laser: Use certain tactics to stay laser-focused on your priority.
- Energize: Charge your battery with exercise, food, sleep and quiet time.
- Reflect: Adjust and improve your system.
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How To Pick Your Highlight (Your Priority)
Take control of your time by choosing where you direct your attention. And your daily Highlight is the target of that attention.
Principles for picking your Highlight:
- Urgency. Think about the most pressing thing you have to do today.
- Satisfaction. Ask yourself which Highlight will give you the most satisfaction.
- Joy. Ask yourself: When I reflect on today, what will bring me the most joy?
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Highlight Tactics: Choosing Your Daily Highlight
- Write down your highlight of the day. Put it in a visible place, to create a visual reminder.
- Trust your gut to decide whether an urgent, joyful, or satisfying Highlight is best for today.
- Repeat to build momentum and create a habit.
- Choose the same Highlight for several days in a row.
- Schedule your Highlight in your the calendar and block time for it.
- Highlights should take 60-90 minutes.
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"Make Time" is a practical guide to controlling your attention and energy in a world of distractions. One key insight is the importance of redesigning your technology to break free from the cycle of constant busyness. This book offers actionable strategies to help you be more intentional with your time, leading to a more fulfilling and productive life.
Prioritize Your Focus
To be successful, you need to decide what to focus on, how to get the energy to do it, and how to be more intentional about your life.
- Identify the most important task for the day and commit to it.
- Allocate specific times for tasks and avoid multitasking to enhance productivity.
- Reflect on your goals regularly to ensure your daily activities align with them.
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"The key is not to prioritize what's on your schedule, but to schedule your priorities."
STEPHEN COVEY
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Optimize Your Day with Four Steps
You can optimize your day with four steps: highlighting, laser, energizing, and reflecting.
- The best way to end the cycle of distraction is by redesigning your technology use.
- Experiment with different coping strategies to find what works best for you.
- Create rituals that help you stay focused and energized throughout the day.
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Make Time is a framework for choosing what you want to focus on, building the energy to do it, and breaking the default cycle so that you can start being more intentional about the way you live your life.
Brief Summary
Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky; a book focused on helping you optimize each day. Allowing you to save time for what matters most.
The book is focused around 4 main areas:
- Highlight
- Laser
- Reflect
- Energize
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The Daily Highlight (HIGHLIGHT)
Choose ONE important, needle-moving activity to be your highlight task of the day.
If you can only accomplish one thing today, it should be this.
Mile long to-do lists can be counter-intuitive.
Cut it down to what matters.
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Create Distraction Barriers (LASER)
The more layers of separation between you and a distraction, the more likely you are to resist it.
- Log out of social media accounts
- Put your phone out of reach
- Set screen times limits
Stop giving yourself the option of distraction.
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Make time for the things that matter
HIGHLIGHT:
- Find one specific task that you must accomplish that day & try to complete that one task
- This specific task is called the highlight of the day
- This doesn't mean to do just one task on a specific day but the highlight is the task that you must do that day without any compromise
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Laser:
- Have a laser focus during the highlighted task and avoid multitasking during that slot of time
- Have a specific time frame blocked for the highlight of the day
- Personally, I prefer the first 3 hours of the day for my highlight, you can have any other slot as well
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Energise:
- Take a break in intervals to energise yourself
- Break your day into 2 or 3 slots and have tasks of alternate intensity assigned in these slots
- Appoint the highlighted task for the slot that you consider yourself most productive and do the rest of the tasks in the other slots
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How time can change everything, and with the help of time you have the power to change everything.
Thats tells us the most significant element of life is time. The better you use your time the sooner you will find freedom, the more you ignore time the more you will end up regrets
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I want to start by talking why life is so busy and chaotic these days. And why, if you feel constantly stressed and distracted, it's probably not your fault.
Two Powerful Forces Competing For Every Minute Of Our Time
The first one is called "Busy Bandwagon" it is our culture of constant busyness, overflowing inboxes, endless to-do lists. According to Busy Bandwagon mindset, if you want to meet the demands of modern workplace, you must fill every minute with productivity. If you slow down, you'll fall down and never catch up.
The second one is "Infinity Pools" . They are apps and other sources of endlessly replenishing content. If you can pull to refresh, it's and Infinity Pool.
Both of these forces are pre-selected options and if you don't change them, then default is what you get.
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This book helped me to manage my time and focus on goals
This book gives us the idea that we should not set to many golas instead we should focus on only one goal. We should also focus on our system first before focusing on the goal
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