Ask what you’d do with one extra hour a day. Then check what you did with the last one you had.

The fantasy hour is always well spent: the gym, the instrument, the thing you keep meaning to start. You already had one yesterday, somewhere between a scroll and a second video. That gap is not a character flaw, it is what unplanned time does. An hour has to be pointed at something or it fills itself.

Find yesterday’s spare hour, honestly, and then put tomorrow’s on the calendar with a name attached. Keep it small enough to be real: one run, one chapter, one song. The difference between the imagined hour and the actual one is usually a decision made in advance.