

In this summary of Make Time by Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky, you’ll learn To implement that strategy, we’ll then look at a sampling of 20 of the authors’ 87 time-making tactics, which you can use to create a personalized approach to taking back your life.

Over the course of this book summary, we’ll look at why we’re so busy and distracted, why productivity and willpower alone aren’t enough to solve the problem and how to develop a four-step strategy to regain our time. To bring that strategy to life, we’ll need some practical tactics. Then, we must implement a strategy to overcome them. If we want a real fighting chance of doing them, we’re going to need to understand the underlying causes of busyness and distraction. Of course, these things are much easier said than done. To regain our time and pursue the activities and projects we’ve been putting on the backburner, the solution, it would seem, is simple: stop being busier than we have to be, and avoid the distractions that are whittling our days away. Then, when we’re done being busy, we spend the rest of our time glued to social media, television and email! We often make ourselves busier than we have to be.

If we’re honest with ourselves, though, we’ll see that the culprit isn’t just the modern world it’s also ourselves. In modern life, it often feels like there are never enough hours in the day to do the things we really want to do.
