Until fairly recently I’d managed this by essentially scheduling in those non-work activities that I wanted to make sure happened. For example, Monday and Wednesday mornings had a bike ride structured into them - my first meeting of the day was always scheduled late enough after to ensure enough time to get the ride in and a shower after.

Since my schedule often seems to rule my life, placing that human time on it ensured that it actually happened. I had a shift in my schedule a couple of months ago, lost that time, and haven’t yet managed to re-institute it.

Many of us have made conscious decisions to move away from 9-5-ish sort of work schedules and manage things independently. There’s a lot of good to be said for that, but those structured schedules also structured in that human time. I think Merlin’s right here that we have to find a way to put it into the day ourselves.