I will be observant and attentive throughout my entire day.

Try to describe your walk to work — not the route, the details. What color is the door three houses down? Most people can't say, and they have passed it a thousand times.

The mind edits aggressively. It keeps what is useful for getting through and drops the rest, which is efficient, and also how whole weeks disappear.

Being observant all day is too large an instruction to follow. Pick one channel: faces, or the sky, or the tone underneath what people say rather than the words.

One channel watched properly gives back more than a general resolution to notice everything.