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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day
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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

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From the New York Times bestselling authors of Sprint, a simple 4-step system for improving focus, finding greater joy in your work, and getting more out of every day.

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-listen 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.

LanguageEnglish
Release dateSep 25, 2018
ISBN9781984827951
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Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day

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  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    My favorite part of the book was focusing on a highlight and all the tips to avoid distraction. I have already put into practice some on the tips and have seen rewarding results.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    I like that the tips are actually useful and can be easily implemented in real life!
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Great audiobook I loved it and the authors are very experienced
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Very practice and informative book for understanding the principles of life
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Some good ideas already exposed on line. The rest is bloat!
  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
    4/5
    It is great book. I recommend this book. There are a lot of useful tips into life.
  • Rating: 3 out of 5 stars
    3/5
    Too general and it’s hard to focus, I need to feel a sense of walking on the road you made your self.
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Useful and easy tactics to help life better and happier
  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    Instructive and motivating. The first week I implemented the highlight method I felt a significant increase in my energy level. Getting rid of “infinity pools” is harder but when I stick with it it significantly improves my mood. Taking a closer look at how my activities are impacting not just my day but my life has been enlightening.
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    An easy listen with guidelines that are easy to follow!

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  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
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    Great book, giving a lot of tactics on how to make better use of your time available. The book and the tactics are well structured into four key areas and are easy to apply to your personal life.

    2 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 5 out of 5 stars
    5/5
    This book was packed with a lot of practical ideas to use daily and offered alternatives to customize your day. I love it! I’ve implemented the Highlight to my daily schedule and I’ve accomplished so much and I feel happier about my days!

    2 people found this helpful

  • Rating: 4 out of 5 stars
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    Best for: Those looking for some tips to help them focus their time.In a nutshell: Two former Google folks offer their tips for making time for what matters (I mean, it’s right there in the title, and I couldn’t figure out a better way to say it).Worth quoting:“Trying to cram in just one more thing is like driving a car that is running out of gas: No matter how long you keep your foot on the accelerator, if the tank is empty, you aren’t going anywhere. You to stop and refuel.”Why I chose it:Assuming all the paperwork and such goes through, I should be starting a new job next month. For the past year I’ve been working from home, and only part time, so I’ve been able to do things like chores and exploring my new city on my own schedule. And before that, I didn’t work on Fridays for years. But my new job has a regular work week, so I’m going to have to work harder to be more intentional about how I spend my time.Review:The main premise of the book is this: we should pick a highlight for our day (work or personal life) that takes about 60-90 minutes; create an environment to have laser focus; make some changes to increase energy, and then reflect on the actions we’ve taken and if they’ve helped us focus on our highlight.The book itself is well-designed. It’s a bit hefty, but it has illustrations and summarizes the four areas well. After presenting the basics behind each thesis, the authors offer tips on how to implement it. The suggestion isn’t that the reader incorporate all the suggestions, but that we try them out and reflect to see which work to help us make time for what we want to do with our days.Some suggestions are ones I’ve heard before — deleting apps from phones that suck time but don’t add a lot to life, exercising a bit each — but the framework is different, and I like it. I’m going to try it out. That said, a couple of reservations: this was created by two dudes. One does have children, but I would be interested in how this works for people who are primary caregivers of their children and don’t work outside the home. They do reference how some of this might be challenging to people who have newborns or other people they care for, but I could imaging being a bit skeptical. Additionally, for people who have very little control over their work schedule, some of the tips might be hard to implement, but I think it’s worth having a go.

    4 people found this helpful