Personal growth and development are important to me.

Importance is a claim, and calendars are where claims get audited. There's the book on the nightstand, and then there's the book you actually finished.

This isn't a lecture about discipline. It's just that the things we call important have a habit of receiving whatever hour is left over, and on most weeks there isn't one.

If it genuinely matters, it needs a slot with a time attached and something else moved out of its way. Otherwise it remains a preference, which is a perfectly respectable thing to have and a different thing entirely.