Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind (The 99U Book Series) by 99U

For those looking to increase productivity and focus on their daily tasks, Manage Your Day-to-Day: Build Your Routine, Find Your Focus, and Sharpen Your Creative Mind is the perfect guide. Published by 99U, this is the first installment in the 99U series and offers readers actionable advice to maximize efficiency and focus on their professional lives.

Written by 99U’s editor-in-chief Jocelyn K. Glei, along with bestselling author and founder of 99U, Scott Belsky, this book is packed full of helpful tips, strategies, and techniques to help readers create the optimal work routine, improve their focus and concentration, and ultimately sharpen their creative thinking.

Throughout their book, the authors provide readers with a range of advice that is both practical and inspiring. Rigorous day planners can find much of the advice in Manage Your Day-to-Day immediately applicable. For example, readers are encouraged to break down their day-to-day objectives by finding their “action trifecta”, a combination of three activities that can be completed within a single day. Such processes help to transform daunting tasks into manageable and achievable outcomes.

Perusal of Manage Your Day-to-Day will also enable readers to identify their primary focus and time management strategies. Analysis of the work-output of a given day will enable readers to identify both the pitfalls and successes. From here the authors have a range of tips to instill concentration and minimize distraction, such as limiting unnecessary emails, blocking out short chunks of time to focus, and setting “prime time” to optimize productivity.

For those who struggle to honour their commitments, the authors offer invaluable advice. In particular, they discuss the “habit loop” and its role in adhering to goals and objectives. Through an appreciation of the habit loop, readers will learn to identify the triggers for particular behaviours and the method of reinforcing these habits over the long-term.

Along with helping readers improve their day-to-day productivity, Manage Your Day-to-Day also offers advice on honing creative thinking. Drawing on their extensive experience, the authors have curated a range of tools to help readers learn to sharpen their ideas, challenge their assumptions and cultivate the right environment for creativity. Through such advice, readers will soon be able to craft more innovative products and services.

In sum, Manage Your Day-to-Day is the perfect guide for those looking to maximize productivity and hone their creative skills. Through actionable advice, practical strategies and inspiring anecdotes, readers will soon be well on their way towards creating the perfect working environment. Through such a process, readers can certainly expect to see an uptick in their efficiency and creative ideas.