# Manage Your Day-to-Day

## Metadata
- Author: [[Jocelyn K. Glei, 99U]]
- Full Title: Manage Your Day-to-Day
- Category: #books
## Highlights
- If you keep playing without any time-outs, your game starts to slip. ([Location 88](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00B77UE4W&location=88))
- “It’s not about ideas, it’s about making ideas happen.” ([Location 95](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00B77UE4W&location=95))
- It’s time to stop blaming our surroundings and start taking responsibility. While no workplace is perfect, it turns out that our gravest challenges are a lot more primal and personal. Our individual practices ultimately determine what we do and how well we do it. Specifically, it’s our routine (or lack thereof), our capacity to work proactively rather than reactively, and our ability to systematically optimize our work habits over time that determine our ability to make ideas happen. ([Location 103](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00B77UE4W&location=103))
- Through our constant connectivity to each other, we have become increasingly reactive to what comes to us rather than being proactive about what matters most to us. ([Location 117](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B00B77UE4W&location=117))