168 Hours

Three of the ideas you’ll keep

The Clif summary of 168 Hours pulls out 7 insights. Here are the first three.

1. Stop estimating and start measuring: track every block of your 168 hours for one week in 15- or 30-minute chunks, because your memory of how busy you are rarely matches the data on the page.
2. Treat the week, not the day, as your unit of planning. A bad Tuesday morning isn't a ruined life, and a workout that won't fit today almost always fits somewhere in the other 165 hours.
3. Identify your core competencies, the few things you do uniquely well and that matter most, then spend the bulk of your week on them and ruthlessly ignore, minimize, or outsource almost everything else.

The other 4 — and the full 10-minute summary — are in the app.

What’s inside: 10 chapters

The whole summary runs about 10 minutes, read or listened to.

1. The Myth of the Time Crunch
2. The Power of the Weekly Mosaic
3. Your Core Competencies
4. The List of 100 Dreams
5. The Right Job and Clearing the Calendar
6. Ignore, Minimize, or Outsource
7. The New Home Economics
8. Don't Do Your Own Laundry
9. A Full Life: Leisure Done Right
10. The Hard Work of Having It All