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the more firmly you believe it ought to be possible to find time for everything, the less pressure you’ll feel to ask whether any given activity is the best use for a portion of your time.

Oliver Burkeman • Four Thousand Weeks: Embrace your limits. Change your life. Make your four thousand weeks count.

apply the principle of condensing to our lives we need to shift the ratio of activity to meaning.

Greg Mckeown • Essentialism: The Disciplined Pursuit of Less

Time is your most valuable currency. Are you satisfied with how you’re spending your time? Your life? When was the last time you went to sleep at night, content with the feeling that “this was a well-spent day”? When was the last time you got up in the morning, clear about how you wanted to spend your day?

Richard J. Leider • Life Reimagined: Discovering Your New Life Possibilities

What else would you do if your biggest goal for the year was cultivating one or two deeper friendships, and you now realize that you have more than enough time to make it happen?

Kat Vellos • We Should Get Together: The Secret to Cultivating Better Friendships

But not all time is spent equally. There are certain areas of our lives where the preciousness of time is heightened, and this awareness allows you to approach the concept of time more mindfully. Not only are you more aware of how you’re spending it, but you are much more grateful when others give it to you as well.

Lawrence Yeo • Why Having a Wedding Makes Sense

Time without attention is worthless, so value attention over time.

Timothy Ferriss • The 4-Hour Workweek, Expanded and Updated: Expanded and Updated, With Over 100 New Pages of Cutting-Edge Content.

Put your Highlight on the calendar.

John Zeratsky • Make Time: How to focus on what matters every day

you should identify and strive to cut out all the superficial things in your life. You should be fully intentional with how you spend your most precious resource of all: time.

Brad Stulberg • Peak Performance: Elevate Your Game, Avoid Burnout, and Thrive with the New Science of Success

Highlight: Start Each Day by Choosing a Focal Point The first step in Make Time is deciding what you want to make time for. Every day, you’ll choose a single activity to prioritize and protect in your calendar. It might be an important goal at work, like finishing a presentation. You might choose something at home, like cooking dinner or planting y