This week, block 45 minutes on Sunday. Define your top three outcomes for the week. Put the work that produces them on your calendar as protected time blocks. If it is not blocked, it will not happen. The calendar is the system.
Pick a time your workday ends. At that time, you close work and do not return until morning. No open-ended evenings. No reactive checking. A defined end creates a defined start. Unstructured evenings erode the next morning.
Every Friday, 15 minutes. Three questions: What did I complete? What did I drift on? What does next week need? This is your feedback loop. Without it, the same drift repeats without correction.
Where does your time go that produces nothing? Scrolling. Unnecessary meetings. Reactive email. Name your primary time leak and eliminate 30 minutes of it daily this week. That is 3.5 hours reclaimed by Sunday.
"Structure removes drift.
Willpower only delays it."