Question
Read
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Experiment
Reset attention, energy, money, relationships, work, and meaning through one weekly reading, one HourLife tool, and one behavioral experiment.
How a week runs
No app, no streak shaming. Each week is small enough to actually do alongside normal life.
Each week isolates one life domain so the reset stays focused.
One book gives the week a lens without turning this into homework overload.
A no-login HourLife tool turns reflection into a usable output.
One behavior test makes the idea visible in real life.
Pick a week
Question
Read
Use
Experiment
The syllabus
Every week is usable on its own, but the sequence is intentional: stabilize attention and energy first, then address money, relationships, work, values, environment, and future planning.
Stabilize attention, energy, and digital triggers before redesigning anything else.
Week
1
Where is your attention leaking?
A reset starts with evidence, not motivation. This week is about seeing the real attention ledger: phone loops, shallow work, default tabs, and the moments where discomfort sends you reaching.
Book
Cal Newport
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Remove the most distracting app from your phone for 7 days.
Week
2
What is your body trying to tell you?
Productivity advice fails when the body is under-recovered. Treat energy as a signal this week: sleep timing, breath, movement, food, and stress load all become data.
Book
Peter Attia
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Set a fixed wake time for 7 days.
Week
3
What do you reach for when discomfort appears?
Digital detox is not moral purity. It is trigger design. Notice the cue, name the feeling, and install a replacement behavior before the old loop asks for permission.
Book
Cal Newport
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Create three replacement behaviors for scrolling triggers.
Bring money, key relationships, and one block of deep work into honest view.
Week
4
What money reality are you avoiding?
Money clarity begins as inventory. No shame, no fantasy math: just accounts, obligations, recurring charges, and the automatic decisions your past self already made.
Book
Morgan Housel
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
List all accounts, debts, subscriptions, and automatic transfers.
Week
5
Which relationship needs a small repair?
Most relationships do not need a grand speech first. They need attention, specificity, and one honest attempt to lower the temperature.
Book
Amir Levine and Rachel Heller
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Have one 15-minute repair conversation.
Week
6
What deserves your best attention?
This week is deliberately narrow. Choose the work that would change the shape of the month, remove the easy interruptions, and measure completion by protected blocks.
Book
Jake Knapp and John Zeratsky
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Complete three 60-minute deep work blocks.
Test identity, courage, and values in small repeatable behaviors.
Week
7
Who are you becoming through repeated action?
Identity is not an affirmation pasted over old behavior. It is the story your repeated actions make credible. Pick one identity and prove it in the smallest possible unit.
Book
James Clear
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Write and practice one identity-based habit.
Week
8
What are you avoiding because it might change you?
Avoidance often disguises itself as research, preparation, or timing. This week turns courage into a morning behavior: one clean action before rumination expands.
Book
Brene Brown
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Do one avoided action before noon.
Week
9
What would make this season worth it?
Meaning becomes practical when it changes the calendar. Use values as a filter, then make one subtraction that proves the filter has teeth.
Book
Viktor E. Frankl
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Cancel one low-value commitment.
Shape environment, conversations, and the next 90 days into a sustainable rhythm.
Week
10
What does your environment make easy?
Willpower is expensive. Environment design is cheaper. This week changes shelves, desks, phone screens, chargers, and cues so the next good action is closer.
Book
Fumio Sasaki
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Redesign one room, desk, or phone screen around the behavior you want.
Week
11
What conversation are you underpreparing for?
Better communication usually starts before anyone speaks. Decide what you are trying to understand, ask cleaner questions, and leave room for the other person to become more real.
Book
Mark Goulston
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Ask three better questions in one important conversation.
Week
12
What continues after the reset?
The final week prevents the reset from becoming a finished project. Keep the lessons, drop the novelty, and build a practical 90-day plan that can survive normal life.
Book
Benjamin Hardy
Tool or game
Open in HourLife
Experiment
Build the next 90-day plan.
Portable plan
Paste it into notes, a calendar, or a task manager. The page is a reference; the reset happens in the weekly experiment.
Remove the most distracting app from your phone for 7 days.
Set a fixed wake time for 7 days.
Create three replacement behaviors for scrolling triggers.
List all accounts, debts, subscriptions, and automatic transfers.
Have one 15-minute repair conversation.
Complete three 60-minute deep work blocks.
Write and practice one identity-based habit.
Do one avoided action before noon.
Cancel one low-value commitment.
Redesign one room, desk, or phone screen around the behavior you want.
Ask three better questions in one important conversation.
Build the next 90-day plan.