Hijacked — and How to Get Free | AttentionPlease® Live Workshop

The true annual cost of average screen time

What screens spend without your permission

At 7.6 hours a day — the US average across every screen — this is what your year actually looks like.

2,774Hours a yearA full-time job — running 69 weeks straight

173Full waking daysConscious hours handed to other people's content

5.7Months a yearOf your waking life — on someone else's agenda

The flip side

Reclaim just one hour a day and you get back 23 full waking days every year.

Not calendar days. Waking days — sixteen hours of actual living.

What 365 reclaimed hours could build

One hour a day. One year. Pick one.

Research-based minimums — conservative estimates of what 365 focused hours actually produces. The US average is four books read per year. This is what the time is worth.

Read 80 books

The US average is four books a year. At one hour a day you read 20× more than the typical American. Bill Gates reads 50 a year — and schedules the time deliberately.

Reach Grade 4–5 piano from zero

ABRSM Grade 4–5 — equivalent to five years of weekly lessons. Play 50+ songs fluently. The musician at every gathering.

Hold real conversations in Spanish

B1–B2 proficiency (FSI data). Navigate any Spanish-speaking country comfortably — order, negotiate, socialize, make friends.

Write and publish a book

At 750 words an hour: 273,000 words produced — one complete, revised, published manuscript. The book you've been meaning to write.

Train for 4 marathons

Hal Higdon's plan takes ~80 hours. Four marathons trained and completed, with 85 hours of cross-training left over. Couch to endurance athlete.

Complete Private Pilot Ground School

40–60 hours of required study. Done in seven weeks at one hour a day — with 300+ hours left for whatever else is on your list.

Sources: FSI language data · ABRSM grade framework · Hal Higdon marathon plans · Staples reading-speed study (238 wpm avg) · NaNoWriMo drafting data · FAA ground-school requirements. All estimates are conservative minimums.

I'm ready to start — register for $17 July 11 · 10 AM Pacific · Live on Zoom

"Time is the only resource that cannot be manufactured, borrowed, saved, or recovered. Money lost can be earned back. Health lost can often be restored. Relationships strained can be repaired. Hours lost are gone permanently."

Ron Franklin · AttentionPlease®

The goal isn't more productivity. It's choosing what your finite hours are for — before someone else chooses for you.

Sound familiar?

Your attention didn't wander. It was taken.

→You pick up your phone for one reason. Forty minutes later you're somewhere else entirely — and you can't explain how you got there.
→You have real goals — music, writing, fitness, a life you keep meaning to build. Every night you look up and the time is just gone.

This isn't a discipline problem. You're not lazy or weak. These platforms are engineered to capture your attention — and you haven't had a system to fight back. Until now.

Yes — I want my time back · $17

The workshop

Two hours. One framework. A plan.

Live Workshop · July 11, 2026

Hijacked — and How to Get Free

Saturday · 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT / 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET · Zoom

What happens in the workshop

01 →
The Attention Audit. Map exactly where your time is going right now. Most participants find 2–3 hours a day they didn't know were gone.
02 →
The AFR Framework. Awareness → Friction → Reclamation — a system that makes change structural instead of willpower-dependent.
03 →
Your 30-Day Blueprint. Built in session, around your specific goals and your actual life. You leave with a written plan, not just an intention.
04 →
The Community Path. An invitation to the AttentionPlease® community on Skool: course modules, accountability, and continued practice. Explore →

Claim your seat — $17 July 11 · 10 AM PT · Live on Zoom

Who's teaching this

I know this works. Because I used it.

Ron Franklin holding a classical guitar in front of a wall of books.

Ron Franklin · Emmy Award-winning producer, author, classical guitarist, founder of AttentionPlease®

A few years ago, my evenings were gone. Not to anything dramatic — just the slow drift of screens. Television. Scrolling. Other people's content filling the hours where my own life was supposed to be. I had real goals — music I wanted to make, writing I wanted to finish, a body I needed to reclaim — and every night I'd look up and the time was just gone.

"I built my way out using the system I'm going to teach you. I went from watching other people's stories to creating my own — and the results were things I never thought possible while sitting on that couch."

→Emmy Award-winning producer
→Published author — The 15-Minute Reality Reset
→90 pounds lost — reclaimed his health
→Performing classical guitarist

Ron Franklin · Emmy Award-winning producer · Professor, San Diego Community College District · Keynote speaker · Founder, AttentionPlease®

Before you decide

Common questions.

What exactly happens during the workshop?

One live two-hour Zoom session. You'll complete your personal Attention Audit, get a working introduction to the AFR framework, and build your 30-Day Reclamation Blueprint — all in session. This isn't a lecture. It's interactive, and you leave with documents you built yourself.

I've tried screen-time tools before. Why is this different?

Because willpower and timers address symptoms. This workshop addresses the system. The Awareness → Friction → Reclamation framework doesn't ask you to resist urges — it asks you to redesign your environment so the urges occur less and the alternatives become easier.

What is the AttentionPlease® community on Skool?

The place where the work continues — additional course modules, ongoing accountability, and a group of people actively doing the same work. Workshop attendees receive an invitation at the end of the session. Explore it now →

Who is this for?

Anyone who feels the gap between where their attention goes and where they want it to go. Professional, parent, student, creative — if you have something you want to build, finish, or become, and screens keep getting in the way, this is for you.

The life you want isn't waiting for more time. It's waiting for your attention back.

Two hours. One framework. A plan with your name on it.

Saturday, July 11, 2026 · 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM PT / 1:00 – 3:00 PM ET
Live via Zoom · Questions? ron@attentionplease.ai

"You're not behind because you're weak. You're behind because something has been taking your attention before you could use it. Two hours. That's all it takes to start getting it back."

Ron Franklin · AttentionPlease®