A way to simplify your life today
📅 Today’s tip: Instead of a routine, try a practice.
We plan routines to bring us a sense of stillness and purpose: Wake up at 6 a.m., write in a journal every day, meditate. But as the Forge writer Ryan Holiday reminds us, routines are fragile. They depend on everything going right. And when things are as up in the air as they are right now, routines are easily thrown off track.
What really helps in the long term is to adopt practices. “Practices are things you do regularly — perhaps daily, perhaps not — but in no particular order,” Holiday explains. “They are things you return to, time and time again, to center yourself.”
Getting up early is a routine, but making time to meditate is a practice. Writing in a journal every day is a routine, but remembering to check in with your own thoughts is a practice. As Holiday writes: “Routine might be out of reach, but practices never are.”
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