Your inner life deserves more than whatever attention is left over.

Inner life tends to get the residue of the day: the last twenty minutes, the tired moments, whatever attention was not claimed by something more urgent. Everything else gets scheduled and protected, and the part of you that does the living gets whatever is left.

Give it something better than leftovers. A protected half hour, at a time of day when you are not depleted, for reading, thinking, writing, or nothing in particular. Treat it as an appointment rather than a luxury. The change in quality between tired attention and rested attention is larger than the change in quantity.