About This Book

- ⏳ **Embrace Imperfection**: Accept that you'll never have everything under control; perfection is an illusion. - 📅 **Prioritize Wisely**: Focus on what truly matters instead of trying to meet every obligation and expectation. - 🧘‍♂️ **Find Freedom in Defeat**: Recognizing the futility of total control can lead to a more fulfilling life. - 🌅 **Morning Routines Matter**: Successful people often have morning habits that set a positive tone for the day. - 🎯 **Live Intentionally**: Shift your perspective on time management to prioritize meaningful experiences over endless tasks.

Top Highlights

• Productivity is a trap. Becoming more efficient just makes you more rushed, and trying to clear the decks simply makes them fill up again faster. Nobody in the history of humanity has ever achieved “work-life balance,” whatever that might be, and you certainly won’t get there by copying the “six things successful people do before 7:00 a.m.” The day...
• Convenience, in other words, makes things easy, but without regard to whether easiness is truly what’s most valuable in any given context. Take those services—on which I’ve relied too much in recent years—that let you design and
• The world is bursting with wonder, and yet it’s the rare productivity guru who seems to have considered the possibility that the ultimate point of all our frenetic doing might be to experience more of that wonder.
• The real problem isn’t our limited time. The real problem—or so I hope to convince you—is that we’ve unwittingly inherited, and feel pressured to live by, a troublesome set of ideas about how to use our limited time, all of which are pretty much guaranteed to make things worse.
• Historians call this way of living “task orientation,” because the rhythms of life emerge organically from the tasks themselves, rather than from being lined up against an abstract timeline, the approach that has become second nature for us today.