People often say, “You can’t manage time.” They’re basically right – time just happens, we can’t stop the clock ticking, we can’t go back in time. As the poet (Omar Khayyám) writes, The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ, Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor Wit Shall lure it back to cancel half a Line, Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it.
So what can we manage? We can manage our attention (or at least...