Better Than Before: What I Learned About Making and Breaking Habits--to Sleep More, Quit Sugar, Procrastinate Less, and Generally Build a Happier Life

by Gretchen Rubin

Her second-grade schedule included many elements that I want for my own day: snack, physical education, DEAR (“Drop Everything and Read”), and my favorite entry, Choice Time. Seeing “Choice Time” was a reminder that for people like me, leisure must be entered on the schedule as its own activity; it’s not something I get only when I have nothing else to do. Because I always have something else to do.

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