The rest of your life should not receive only the attention work did not use.

Work has a way of taking the best hours and leaving the remainder to everything else. Family, friendship, health and your own interests get whatever is still standing at eight in the evening, and over years that becomes a life where the important things are consistently served last. Nobody decides this outright, since it accumulates from a hundred small orderings.

Take one thing outside work that matters and give it a good hour rather than a leftover one. Put it early in the day or early in the week, before the demands arrive. Notice what it is like to bring your actual energy to it for once.