A time sanctuary can take many forms—an hour a day with your phone in airplane mode, a weekly hobby date with a friend—but regardless of what it looks like or when it is, Koretz believes it’s important to designate time when work is not an option. One of the benefits of, say, going to church or a yoga class is that it’s impossible to work while you’re there. Although many of us intend to work less, work seeps back in unless we actively protect time away from it.
