You Don’t Have To [Insert Good Habit] Every Day

But you need to know the right moment to stop.

Photo by Cristian Newman on Unsplash

For the past two days I haven’t been feeling my best.

There have been some struggles and disappointments at work and I felt mentally exhausted. My brain couldn’t think or create anything anymore. I didn’t feel like doing anything at all.

So I allowed myself to do just that.

I allowed myself to sleep for as long as I wanted (which ended up being 10 to 12 hours each night). I allowed myself to skip meditation and yoga (which I had been doing for who knows how long) and I had a coffee (which I had promised myself not to do until the end of the year).

And you know what? It felt amazing. It felt healing. It felt right.

And today I woke up again at 5h30 feeling super energized and motivated for the day ahead.

I still struggle to let go of my expectations sometimes. “I can’t skip meditation”. “I can’t skip writing”. “I can’t have coffee”.

I know the value of commitment — it allows me to finish what I started, be consistent, and it keeps me from tricking myself into falling from addictive temptations.

But after you’ve succeeded at being consistent — and I have—and then quit, and then started…