You wake up with a full tank of attention. By noon, the apps have siphoned half of it.

Attention arrives in a daily amount and it drains whether you spend it deliberately or not. The first hour is the most expensive part, because whatever you hand it to sets the pace for everything after. A morning that opens with forty notifications is already half spent before you start anything real.

Guard the first hour this week. Keep the phone out of reach until you have done one thing that matters to you. Not forever, just first, and notice how much further the rest of the day goes.