The fastest way to change your life is to change your 7 a.m.

Mornings set the terms for everything after them. The first hour is the one part of the day almost nobody else has a claim on, which makes it the easiest place to put something that matters and the easiest place to lose it. Change what happens then and the rest of the day quietly reorganizes around the new order.

Give one thing your first half hour for a fortnight. Running, reading, the work you keep postponing, whatever it is. Do it before your phone gets involved, because once that starts the hour belongs to somebody else.