The best way to get out of low-priority obligations is never to accept them in the first place.

It's OK to clear your calendar, cancel a meeting or push back a deadline to make time for your Highlight.

Schedule & block the calendar for Highlight.

Write down your highlight at the start of your day.

A good rule of thumb is to choose a Highlight that takes 60-90 min.

Choose your highlight of the day based on urgency / satisfaction / joy.

The Infinity Pools - endless distractions Highlight: Start Each Day by Choosing a Focal Point

Make Time is just 4 steps, repeated every day: Highlight, Laser, Energise, and Reflect.

You do not have to jiggle between endless tasks and endless distractions, the default way of how time is spent.

You get to choose the things you want to spend time on.

Slowing down your email response, keeping a short exercise session every day, and winding down the electronic devices before you sleep are just what you need. Habits of watching TV, following News, checking social media apps every day, according to Jake and JZ, you don't need them.

If after reading Atomic Habits you get the idea of establishing some new good habits for yourself, Make Time will give you plenty of examples on what your new habits may look like. This makes me feel more comfortable doing my Screen Time challenge (I lock out most of my apps on my phone) rather than seeing it as a difficult willpower challenge. For example, it is great to know that there are people who deleted most of the Apps on their iPhones and still live a perfectly functioning and productive life. Reading Make Time is more like reading a productivity guru's blog, which confirms many productivity practices I've implemented in my life.

Unlike Atomic Habits and GTD, Make Time is not a typical productivity methodology book. Make Time is the 2nd book on my 'Productivity Trilogy' reading list: the other two are Atomic Habits and the classic Getting Things Done.

Make time jake knapp & john zeratsky