book Grand Rapids Baker Hyatt Michael S. Attachments - Stored Formation for Academic Life Free to focus: a total productivity system to achieve more by doing less Hyatt's volume is good, concise, non-technical "productivity system." Hyatt divides his system into three steps, although only in the final third step does he recommend actually doing anything "productive." Instead of frontloading action, Hyatt suggests beginning by "stopping" to determine what you really want to achieve and making the space to rejuvenate and reflect. The second step involves "cutting" away things that you shouldn't be doing—whether by eliminating them altogether, by automating them so that they get done with a lower footprint in your life, or by delegating them to others. The final step of "acting" Hyatt then sketches out in terms of planning an ideal week to give you a scheduling "home base," prioritizing what you will do in a given week, and focusing on the priorities you've identified. In many ways, Hyatt's volume is one proposal for operationalizing the kind of philosophy of productivity that McKeown's <i>Essentialism</i> describes. 2019 ISBN 978-0-8010-7526-1 Free to focus https://amzn.to/3k2AZlJ Library of Congress ISBN HD69.T54 H93 2019 dimensions: yes