Some work is meant to be repetitive. Folding towels, practicing scales, filling the ice bin. Find the calm in it.

Some tasks are not puzzles, and treating them as though they ought to be interesting makes them heavier. Folding, scales, refilling the ice: the whole design of the work is sameness, and sameness is not an insult. There is a kind of rest available in a job your hands already know. Fighting the repetition costs more than the repetition does.

Take one repetitive chore this week and stop trying to escape it mid-task. No phone, no counting down, just the motion and whatever your mind does while you work. See if twenty minutes of that leaves you steadier than twenty minutes of distraction.