Make Time - How to focus on what matters every day

  Name of the Book: - Make time - How to focus on what matters every day 

Author: - Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky

No of Chapters: -20

Number of Pages: - 287

Single sentence description of Book: - Methods and tactics to have time to focus on what is important in life for yourself

What this book is about: - Book is an excellent compilation of various tactics and methods that we need to follow to create time for essential things or projects in life. Book is detailed explanation of stepwise process of choosing your highlight, then working on it with deep focus (with providing supplement of energy in form of methods) and observing your progress over a period of time.

First section of the book deals with choosing your highlights, prioritizing them and scheduling a time to achieve those highlights. Author has explained methods to avoid the various distractions that can cause the delay in achievement of the highlight.

Second section of the book explains how various distraction kryptonite’s like social media, regular checking of email, Television etc can hamper your progress to achieve the highlights. Author has provided some simple methods to overcome these distractions like creation of barriers for distractions, reduction of notifications of various apps, usage of watch to prevent watching time on screen and many more.

Third section of the book explain the various ways of creation of energy to stay focussed towards our goal or highlight. In this also, author has given simple methods for creation of energy like small daily exercise routines, eating healthy foods, meditation, going on walk without headphones (to rest the brain from continuous activity) and many other easy to follow methods.

Last section of the book deals with tracking your progress in a visible manner so that necessary corrective actions can be taken.

Few valuable insights from the book: -

1.      There is no need to check your social media accounts in the morning. Try to delay the same as long as possible.

2.      Checking of email at frequent intervals will not yield great results. Instead schedule the emails for twice or maximum thrice a day

3.      Watch out for the time craters. Like posting a tweet or update on social media need only few seconds or minutes, but time to check its after effect is a time crater which needs to be avoided

4.      Having a daily regular small exercise routine can prove more beneficial than rigorous exercise of extended duration (unless you are preparing for a championship or game)

5.      Try to avoid fancy apps with extra features which are not used in day-to-day life

Salient facts about the book: -

1.      Author has mentioned the names of 1700 readers who had signed up to review the early edition of the book.

2.      Paper quality and illustrations provided in the book are excellent

3.      Every topic is very short and crisp which makes the book interesting.

Overall Review: - Book is an excellent compilation of various time tested, simple and easy to follow methods to prevent the wastage of time. Overall, an excellent book to read and to make time for your things you want to do in life

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