Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
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John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
If you have something that absolutely positively must be accomplished today, make it your Highlight. You often can find urgent Highlights on your to-do list, email, or calendar—look for projects that are time-sensitive, important, and medium-size (in other words, they don’t take ten minutes but don’t take ten hours, either).
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
started wondering how many other parts of my life needed to be reexamined, reset, and redesigned.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Put your Highlight on the calendar.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
Like a well-behaved kid, clean up after yourself when you’re done. Take it a step further and hide the bookmarks bar in your browser (we know you’ve got a couple of Infinity Pools in there)
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
We check email on our phones to catch up, but the result is usually just a reminder that we’re falling behind.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
To help establish a new end-of-day email routine, try putting it on your calendar. Yes, we want you to literally add “email time” to your calendar.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
We think the best way to choose a Highlight is to trust your gut to decide whether an urgent, joyful, or satisfying…
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John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
when you’re busy day after day, time slides by in a blur.
John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day
even if lots of things didn’t go your way, your hard work of making time still paid off with a moment you’re grateful for.