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Make Time Short Summary

Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky is a framework designed to help you create more time in your day for the things you care about. It consists of 4 steps, repeated every day: Highlight, Laser, Energize, and Reflect. The book also includes 87 different tactics to custom tailor the framework for you.

Executive Summary

Make Time is a framework designed to help you actually create more time in your day for the things you care about.

Make Time is 4 steps, repeated every day:

1. Highlight. Choose a single activity to prioritize and protect in your calendar
2. Laster. Specific tactics to stay laser-focused on your highlight
3. Energize. How to charge your battery with exercise, food, sleep, quiet, and face-to-face time
4. Reflect. How to adjust and improve your system

To choose your daily Highlight, ask: “What do I want to be the highlight of my day?”

How to pick your Highlight:

1. Urgency. “What’s the most pressing thing I have to do today?”
2. Satisfaction. “Which Highlight will bring me the most satisfaction?”
3. Joy. “When I reflect on today, what will bring me the most joy?”

The key to getting into Laser mode and focusing on your Highlight is to create barriers to distraction.

When you don’t take care of your body, your brain can’t do its job.

To increase your energy, all you need to do is travel back in time.

Fine-tune your days with the Scientific Method: