Small and often beats big and rare

People bank on the holiday. Two weeks of relief, then back to the same pace and the same erosion. Resilience is built more reliably by short daily recovery than by rare large blocks of it.

Aim for micro-recovery: five minutes between meetings with your eyes off a screen, lunch away from your desk, a short walk in daylight, a real conversation with no agenda. These are unglamorous and they compound.

Guard them like meetings, because otherwise they become the first thing sacrificed. If it is not in the day somewhere, it will not happen by goodwill.

Choose one micro-recovery slot and put it in tomorrow's calendar before you close this module.