If you’re always reacting, someone else is choosing your moves for you.

Reaction feels like activity, which is why it can take up a whole week without producing anything you chose. Every reply, every scramble, every fire you put out was put on your list by somebody else. You stay busy, and you never get to the thing you would have done with the time.

Start tomorrow with one move that came from you, before the messages are open. Ten minutes on your own thing, whatever it is. The reacting still has to happen, and the difference is that it no longer gets the whole day first.