I removed all my social media apps on my mobile after I read this book
Reading notes of “Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day” by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky.
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3 min readMar 1, 2021
The book isn’t about saving time. It’s about making time for what matters.
After I read this book, I removed all my social media apps including Instagram and Wechat from my mobile to remove distraction and it works pretty well!
In the past, I spent on average 16h per week on WeChat and now I use this time to do my daily highlight such as reading. I feel happier, more satisfied and peaceful.
Recommend this book if you want to distribute time after work to do something meaningful every day.
You only waste time if you’re not intentional about how you spend it.
Book info:
- ISBN: 0525572422
- Date read: 2021–02–21
- How strongly I recommend it: 8/10
1. Highlight: Start each day by choosing a priority
- Asking yourself “What’s going to be the highlight of my day?” ensures that you spend time on what matters most to you.
- You can design your time by choosing where you direct your attention. Your daily highlight is the target of that attention.
Three ways to pick highlights:
- Urgency: what’s the most pressing thing I have to do today? (what need to get done).
- Satisfaction: Which highlight will bring me the most satisfaction? (what you want to get gone).
- Joy: What will bring me the most joy? (what you like doing).
- Trust your gut to decide whether an urgent, joyful, satisfying highlight is best for today.
Highlight tactics:
- Choose highlight takes 60–90 mins.
- Use sticky notes to write down a highlight.
- “Do yesterday again”.
- Stack Rank your life: make a list of the big things that matter in your life and rank things based on importance(meaningfulness).
- Create Might-Do List: project sits on your might-do list until you decide to make them your highlight and schedule them on your calendar.
2. Laser: Beat distraction to make time
- Logging out of social media apps.
- Scheduling time to check email.
- The infinity pool takes up time and energy you could be using on your highlights.
- Create a deadline for your highlight.
- Using music as your cue for Laser mode. Trying playing a specific song or album for each type of Highlight. The music reminds ones brain which routine to run.
3. Energize: Use the body to recharge the brain
- Charge your battery with exercise, food, sleep, quiet, and face-to-face time.
- Keep it moving: just a 20–30 min session can make the brain work better, reduce stress, improve your mode, and make it easier to sleep well.
- Meditation is just a breather for your brain.
- Spend time with your tribe.
4. Reflect: Adjust and improve your system
- Before going to bed, you’ll take a few notes. It’s super simple: You’ll decide which tactics you want to continue and which ones you want to refine or drop.
- Observe what’s going on -> Guess why things happening the way they are -> Experiment to test your hypothesis -> Measure the results and decide whether you were right.
Reference:
[1] “Make Time: How to Focus on What Matters Every Day” by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky.
