Ask to Move It

Nobody usually approved your schedule. It simply settled and then hardened.

Pick one fixed point in your schedule that has stood for years on habit alone: the start of your working day, the weekly call, Sunday lunch at your parents'. Come up with a concrete replacement: an hour later, every other week, every second weekend. Say it to whoever it concerns — directly, without if it is not too much trouble for anyone. Give the reason briefly and do not turn it into an apology. Negotiate afterwards, but do not withdraw the request itself.

How much of my week sits where it does because it once just happened that way?