Knapp and Zeratsky recommend keeping a daily log of your process to record whether you completed your highlight, which tactics you employed, and how you might tweak them to your advantage. Daily reflection - assess what worked best to enable you to focus.To bring energy to your focus, Knapp and Zeratsky give you ideas and hacks for making changes to your level of activity, the kind of food you eat and the way you relax and sleep. Energize - Fuel your body to support your mind.The book has many different tactics to manage all the distractions. This is all about how you manage your attention and avoid getting sucked into all the other stuff. Laser - home your attention on that one specific task.The book includes ways to come up with daily highlights. Selecting a highlight every day keeps you intentional and focused about how you spend your time. A highlight or task can be anything-finishing a newsletter, working out, or learning to play guitar. If you set a single intention at the start of each day, you will be more satisfied, joyful and effective. Select a daily highlight to be the primary focus of your day.After realizing the effects that modern life were having on their own lives, they designed an approach for reclaiming time into 87 tips with four key steps. Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky both worked at Google designing tech products that aim to distract us.

There are so many distractions, interruptions and things to do in our busy lives that it is difficult to make time to focus on the things we care about most.

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