A day you barely remember is a day you didn’t really choose. This book is for readers who suspect their calendars, apps, and cravings are quietly steering their lives—and want the tools to take the wheel back. Blending clear research with crisp practice, it shows how conscious living starts with small “tripwires” that break autopilot habits before they run the day. You’ll learn awareness training you can use in five seconds, simple choice architecture that favours your values, and rituals that make mindfulness in everyday life practical, not preachy. - Design time you can feel again with time management for humans, not machines - Discover how to focus without drama and build better routines that last - Reshape food, tech, and money defaults so your environment helps you, not hooks you - Turn your attention into a ledger you can read—and a life you can stand behind This is not about perfection; it’s about authorship. If you’re ready to design your day with fewer unconscious yeses and more deliberate noes, this guide offers a humane path. In a noisy attention economy book landscape, it keeps one promise: fewer days lost to drift, more days you’ll remember choosing.
Living Wide Awake
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- Evelyn Hawthorne writes about attention, design, and the quiet mechanics of a good day. Her work begins with a simple conviction: most lives are lost to drift, not disaster—and better choices are usually built, not willed. She draws on a background spanning behavioural research, editorial craft, and the study of rituals across cultures, from monastic timekeeping to modern productivity labs. Her previous book, The Price of Forgetting, examined how subscriptions and invisible defaults empty both wallets and minds; this new work turns that lens inward, offering humane tools for living by design. Evelyn’s essays are known for plain language, practical structure, and a refusal to trade clarity for hype. She lives where she can walk, read widely, and keep a small ledger of the day’s remembered choices—a modern commonplace book for a distracted age.
