The Practice

Pull out the engine you named on the first and answer one question honestly: have you run it daily, or did it quietly lapse around the fifth? No story, just the count. If it lapsed, do not restart the whole year — restart today, once, and rebuild the streak from one. The mid-month checkpoint is for course-correction, not self-judgement. The body knows the difference between a real habit and a wished one; ask it.