Every good editor trims the dead air. Look at your day and find the scenes that go nowhere.

Time gets lost in transitions rather than in obvious waste. The twenty minutes between finishing one thing and starting the next, the second lap of the same scroll, the conversation that could have been three sentences. None of it feels like a decision, which is exactly why it survives unexamined.

Track one day roughly and find the two stretches that produced nothing and rested nothing. Cut one and give the time to something you claim to have no room for. Leave the real rest alone, because rest is not dead air.