Where the Day Went

Name:Date:

How to use this sheet. Pick one ordinary day. For each hour, write what you actually did — not what you planned. Then circle whether you chose it or it chose you (a feed, a notification, a habit you did not decide on).

Be honest. "Scrolled for an hour" is a useful answer. Nobody is grading this.
Page 2 is where you add it up and decide one thing.

STEP 1

The day, hour by hour

Short words are fine. One line per hour.

Hour	What I did	Who decided (circle)	How I felt (1–3)
7–8 am		I chose it \| it chose me
8–9		I chose it \| it chose me
9–10		I chose it \| it chose me
10–11		I chose it \| it chose me
11–12		I chose it \| it chose me
12–1 pm		I chose it \| it chose me
1–2		I chose it \| it chose me
2–3		I chose it \| it chose me
3–4		I chose it \| it chose me
4–5		I chose it \| it chose me
5–6		I chose it \| it chose me
6–7		I chose it \| it chose me
7–8		I chose it \| it chose me
8–9		I chose it \| it chose me
9–10		I chose it \| it chose me

Feeling: 1 = tough • 2 = okay • 3 = good. The same three the Tervik app uses.

Clarify — You are not looking for a perfect day. You are looking for where the day went. Most people have never been shown. That is the whole exercise.

→ Flip to page 2 and add it up.

Name:Date:

Two currencies get spent every day: attention, minute by minute, and time, across a life. You can only protect something once you know it is yours.

STEP 2

The totals

Count the circles on page 1.

1.Hours I chose:

2.Hours that chose me:

3.Hours I felt 1 — tough:

4The one hour I would take back

Which hour would you spend differently if you got it again? What would you do with it?

5The hour I am glad about

One hour that was yours and went well. What made it work?

6One small thing to build this week

Not a rule against something. Something you want to do instead — a walk, a call, twenty minutes on a goal. Hope is a position you take on purpose.

⭐ Tonight's two-minute check

Before bed, ask once: where did today go, and was it mine? Write one line here:

Noticing where a day went is a skill. Nobody is born with it. You are practising it right now.

FOR MENTOR USE — READ FIRST (not printed with the student sheet)

Mentor Guide

Companion to Our Attention Is the Currency on tervik.org/journey

1. What this sheet builds

The skill of noticing where attention goes before trying to change it. The essay's claim is that we were never told we owned our attention; this sheet is the first act of ownership — an honest ledger, not a verdict.

2. Running it

Do it about a day that already happened, tonight or the next morning. Planning a day is a different sheet.
Accept an oral answer first, then have the student write it. Talking removes the blank-page freeze.
Do not react to the totals. If half the day "chose them", that is information, and the student just produced it themselves.

3. The debrief

Spend most of the time on question 6. The goal is one thing to build, never a ban.
Ask what made the good hour (question 5) work. That is where the plan for tomorrow lives.
Offer the two-minute check as a habit to try for a week, then look at the sheet together again.

4. Hold the line on tone

No phones-are-bad speech. The essay is explicit: the platforms are designed to win this contest, so losing an hour is not a character flaw. The correcting force is a person asking a kind question — you.