The Why That Keeps You Practicing

When life gets crowded, it’s not just discipline that can keep a practice alive—it’s meaning. Link a micropractice to what you care about most, and you’ll find ways to keep it even on the busiest days. It stops being another item on a list and starts being an act of living your values in real time.

Circle the words that feel true in your bones—not the ones you “should” care about, but the ones you’d still stand by on your hardest day. Then narrow it down to two to five. Those are your anchors. Build your micropractices around them, and they’ll fit into your day the way your priorities already do.

And if nothing here quite fits, write in your own. The most powerful values are yours.