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Make Time

Make Time

How to focus on what matters every day

Summary

'If you want to achieve more (without going nuts), read this book.' - Charles Duhigg, bestselling author of The Power of Habit and Smarter Faster Better

'Make Time is essential reading for anyone who wants to create a happier, more successful life.' Gretchen Rubin, author of The Happiness Project

Most of our time is spent by default. We all wish for more hours in the day. We all struggle to make time for what matters. Help is here.

Productivity experts Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky have created a four-step framework that anyone can use, packed with more than 80 tactics to help you design your day around the things that matter. Tactics such as:

· Choose a daily highlight
· Be the boss of your phone
· Stay out of social media infinity pools
· Slow your inbox
· Make TV a 'sometimes treat'
· Exercise every day (but don't be a hero)
· Eat without screens
· Go off grid
· Spend time with your tribe
· Make your bedroom a bed room

With tips and tricks to help you change your life, it's time to stop daydreaming about projects and activities that you'll get to 'someday', and start that someday today.

What readers are saying:

***** 'Make Time was a game-changer for me . . . I'm 200% more efficient and 200% calmer.'
***** 'This is a gem of a book - it's original, useful and funny.'
***** 'This book really has changed my life . . . I'm starting to achieve things I really care about.'

Reviews

  • As someone obsessed with time and how to spend it wisely, I loved this fun and useful book. Not your normal productivity fare.
    Ev Williams, founder of Medium and Twitter

About the authors

Jake Knapp

Jake Knapp is cofounder and general partner at Character Capital and a New York Times bestselling author. Previously, he helped build Gmail and Microsoft Encarta, cofounded Google Meet, and was a partner at Google Ventures. He lives on Orcas Island in Washington state.
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John Zeratsky

John Zeratsky is cofounder and general partner at Character Capital and a New York Times bestselling author. Previously, JZ was a design leader for YouTube, Google Ads, and FeedBurner, a startup which was acquired by Google in 2007, and was a partner at Google Ventures. He lives in Milwaukee, Wisconsin.

Together, Jake and JZ are the authors of Sprint and Make Time and the creators of the Foundation Sprint and the Design Sprint. They have helped more than 300 teams design new products and bring them to market, including those at Google, Microsoft, YouTube, Slack, Uber, and One Medical Group. Their methods for innovation and rapid collaboration have been adopted by Airbnb, Amazon, LEGO, MIT, Mercedes-Benz, Harvard Business School, the University of Oxford, and many other organizations.
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