New things wake your brain up. Change one small thing today and watch how much more you notice.

Repetition puts you on autopilot, and autopilot is efficient and blind. Anything unfamiliar forces your attention back on, because your brain can no longer predict what comes next. It does not have to be a big change, which is the useful part. A different seat, a different route, a different order of doing things is enough to switch perception back on.

Swap one thing today, a seat, a route, the order you do things in. Notice how much more of an ordinary hour registers when your brain cannot run it from memory.