# Breaking routine If you have a certain set of actions you repeat daily, or standard for how you do something or your way of being - what is your criteria for breaking it? If you normally eat healthy, when will you not? The factors which cause us to forego discipline probably tell us a lot about ourselves and what actually matters to us. For example, I had fried chicken today. Normally I'm regimented, eating a bundle of premeditated cuisine at the same time daily, then not eating again until 23 hours later (daily intermittent fasting). Yet, when an experience is being made and I'm a part of it, and an important part of the experience is to eat with everyone else, then I'll most of the time join in with them. This speaks to the high value I place on making memories with special people. What routines do you have in place? What is "worth it" enough for you to stray from the path? The next piece is figuring out how you on-ramp back onto your program. If the next day you get right back to it, consistently, you're doing it right. Being consistent is the best way to actually get to where you're trying to go, in my experience. The problem comes when you consistently deviate and then normalize those deviations to your identity. A daily blogger is only a person who blogs daily. If you stop performing the action, you lose the identity. [[13 minutes to spare|The practice]] is what defines you.