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Life-changing tactics offered by amazing authors!

Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2018

This book is life-changing. Anyone can get benefit from the tactics offered in this book.
Authors are so honest sharing their own stories and experiences to make the book more sensible. I highly recommend it to whom want to have a happier life!

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interesting but better as blog posts

Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2020

Interesting insight and tactical recommendations. Had high hopes but I feel like this book should be blog posts vs, a book,.

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P. Hamilton

Life-changing tactics offered by amazing authors!

Reviewed in Canada on November 27, 2018

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Cantep

deserve to read

Reviewed in Canada on March 13, 2021

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I hoped more but a large part of the counsel isn't really new, however it is introduced just and in a significant structure.

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Victor C.

The last chapter Rules

Reviewed in Canada on September 8, 2021

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This is a pretty awesome book. I had the opportunity to speak with Jake in my previous job and as soon as I knew the book was coming, I pre-ordered it.

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interesting but better as blog posts

Reviewed in Canada on September 19, 2020

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Interesting insight and tactical recommendations. Had high hopes but I feel like this book should be blog posts vs, a book,.

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Great actionable suggestions for taking more time to yourself.

Reviewed in Canada on January 24, 2021

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I liked the “recipe-style” nature of this book— everyone can pull from it in ways that work uniquely for them. I also enjoyed the simplicity of their framework for how to think about your time effectively.

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Juliette

Pages mixed up

Reviewed in Canada on February 7, 2021

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Really interesting book but I was disappointed at the end because my pages weren't assembled in the right order(ex: page 250 follow by page 255) so it was difficult to follow the end of the book.

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Brogan Pastro

Excellent!

Reviewed in Canada on June 29, 2020

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A quick, insightful read to which I hope to return frequently. JZ’s sailing stories were of personal interest to me. Useful for anyone looking for how to make their personal “pivot” happen.

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Rebeca escobar

A self help book you can actually implement

Reviewed in Canada on July 27, 2021

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Authors have lots of tactics you can use in daily life. This is different from other self help books because their tricks are easy to implement.

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Mark

Getting YOUR things done

Reviewed in Canada on May 4, 2021

Getting YOUR things done.

David Allen’s Getting THINGS Done is the seminal essay on productivity and getting “everything” done. Make Time: How To Focus On What Matters Every Day is not about productivity per se. It is a book about getting YOUR things done - letting you to decide what is meaningful and concentrating on those tasks.

Unlike a typical productivity book, which will discuss systems to make sure you remember everything and that your tools are close at hand, Make Time focuses on “creating time”, or at least “switching time”. You want time to write a book, stop watching TV. You want to cook more interesting dinners, stop looking at your email 1000 times a day! Knapp and Zeratsky know this can be difficult. How can you live without distractions? Being distracted for a few minutes is one thing, but specific habits can distract you forever. There is always another post on Instagram or another video on YouTube. The book will show you how to rid yourself of these types of distractions, called Infinity pools.

The book is well-written and shows you how much time you waste on any day. The authors throw in lots of humour to keep things nice and light. Making Time reads less like a “How To” and more of a “Give One of These a Try”. Throughout, the authors mention what has worked for them individually, but more often than not, they disagree on the best approach. This works well to show the need to customize systems to your way of thinking. Conversely, the lack of any definitive systems can give the impression things were not thought through - that is not the case.

So much research has gone into this book. The authors dedicate an entire chapter to listing the “test” readers, and that may be the longest chapter in the book. While I appreciated the no one size fits all approach, with so much research and so many test readers I feel there is a lost opportunity here. Many people reading this book will want more direction. It would have been useful to include statistics. For example, stating that most people preferred this or that method. In cases were nearly every test reader ended up with a unique system, that would have given even more impact to the statement “Find what works for you”.

The book is a quick read and offers a very refreshing take on productivity in that it will encourage you to NOT do everything, but rather concentrate on the things that are important to you. From the perspective of your job, if you are self-employed or work for an open-minded company such as Google, this book will be most helpful. Unfortunately, some backwards thinking, “Top-down” managers will want to tell you what your priorities are and will not accept you saying no. This said the book will still be useful to help you plan your home life.

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Liang Hua

Generic, but full of nuggets

Reviewed in Canada on March 9, 2021

This is a pretty generic productivity book, however there a plenty of nuggets in their which I have put to good use. Definitely high on the recommendation list for those who want to tweak their productivity.

The book is very easy to read - and extremely fun to read. The concept is easy to follow and the authors speak to the key themes they outline at the start of the book.

Favourite quotes:

“Most to-dos are just reactions to other people’s priorities, not yours. And no matter how many tasks you finish, you’re never done. More to-dos are always waiting to take their place.”

“You know the antidote to exhaustion is not necessarily rest...the antidote to exhaustion is wholeheartedness” - Brother David Steindl-Rast. You really have to have drive and a reason to get a particular thing done

On phones and distractions: “And yet it would be a relief in a way not to be bothered with it any more...Sometimes I have felt it was like an eye looking at me...I found I couldn’t rest without it in my pocket” - Bilbo Baggins

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