Five minutes late every day is thirty hours a year. Time leaks in small amounts.

Small losses do not feel like losses, which is precisely why they pile up unchallenged. Five minutes sits below the level where you would object to anything, and the arithmetic is still the arithmetic. Most of what disappears out of a year leaves in amounts too small to bother arguing with.

Name your own leak honestly this week: the snooze, the twenty minutes after practice, the hour before bed. Fix the cheapest one by moving a single thing five minutes earlier. Nothing about that is dramatic, which is the reason it holds.