Make Time

Of course, your Highlight isn’t the only thing you’ll do each day. But it will be your priority.

Highlight: Start Each Day by Choosing a Focal Point The first step in Make Time is deciding what you want to make time for. Every day, you’ll choose a single activity to prioritize and protect in your calendar. It might be an important goal at work, like finishing a presentation. You might choose something at home, like cooking dinner or planting y

Simple changes like logging out of social media apps or scheduling time to check email can have a huge effect—we’ll provide specific tactics to help you focus.

To achieve focus and make time for what matters, your brain needs energy, and that energy comes from taking care of your body.

you can redesign the way you use technology to stop the reaction cycle.

charge your battery with exercise, food, sleep, quiet, and face-to-face time.

You don’t have to reinvent yourself each day.

Make writing down your Highlight a simple daily ritual.

catch up on email (he got behind while traveling last week) and return a few phone calls. Fortunately, we have a solution: Bundle up the small tasks and use batch processing to get them all done in one Highlight session. In other words, make a batch of small things your big thing.