Myth: you must say yes to every meeting to stay useful.
Correction: usefulness rises when you ship work, not when your calendar fills.
Cost if you ignore this: your week melts into 15 to 25 tiny switches that erase 4 to 8 deep hours.
Today we crush the objection that your calendar owns you. You will install Two Gates, a simple defense that forces meetings to clear a binary test and a numeric cap. You will run two 50-minute Maker Windows before lunch, cap total meetings to 90 minutes per day, and use a 12 second script that moves calendar creep to slots that do not break flow.
Tonight you will set it up in 20 minutes. Tomorrow you will run the first window by 9:00 am and log the result at 10:50 am. By next Sunday you will see 5 to 7 extra deep hours and fewer useless calls.
Inside today you will get:
A 3 step fix with Two Gates and a 9:00 am start
A 90 minute daily meeting cap with a 10:30 am no meeting rule
Scripts that deflect invites in 12 seconds and save 30 to 60 minutes per day
Receipts with time math and a 10 day case slice that shows a 41 percent lift
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