"Use gaps between tasks to set better intentions Chris Bailey points out that the small transitional windows in our day — the walk to a meeting, the minutes before or after a conversation — are disproportionately fertile moments for setting deliberate intentions, but only if we don't fill them with our phones. "If you're walking to a meeting… and on the way there you're on your phone, intentions aren't going to occur to you because you don't tap into this wandering mode." After a meaningful event, that same gap becomes a learning loop: you can reflect on what just happened and form different intentions rather than just consuming more stimulation. Protecting even two or three of these micro-gaps each day is a low-cost way to shift from living on autopilot to genuinely directing your life. Source: Chris Bailey, Modern Wisdom, Intentional: How to Finish What You Start"