The Book of the month: Make Time
This is the post where I shared what I learned from the book "make time" to supercharge my time management technique.
Hi there, my name is Mark. This month, I revised an excellent productivity cookbook I found this year, Make Time. This is not an ordinary productivity book that teaches you how to do more with less time. But instead, it shares tons of tactics and simple solutions that help you to make more time in your daily life for you to enjoy the moments and journey.
The make-time framework consists of four steps that help you focus on what matters daily.
- Highlight
- Laser
- Energize
- Reflect
Firstly, we need to identify the daily highlight for the day, the most critical thing in your life, or the most urgent thing that needs to get down in your project pipeline. Also, I have a blog post about how to use Notion to construct your daily highlight.
Mark Chen
Secondly, you will need to laser your mind to a task you must work on today. Using various energization tactics to keep yourself on momentum to conquer your to-do list for a day is also essential. The coffee intake timing was the st exciting thing I found during the reading session. As a big fan of delicious coffee, it can be pretty easy to over-drink the coffee you need for a day if there is no proper control over it.
In the end, the reflection step enables you to review and evaluate the tactics provided in the book to see which helps you the most. That is why I a fan of daily, weekly, and monthly reviews for my productivity performance and development trajectory.
After reading the book, Make Time, I started to review my daily action to conquer a long list of to-do's for each day. It is more important and effective to focus on what matters the most each day for each project rather than doing a side project to look like a productivity expert.
