Off-season, preseason, season, postseason. Your life has seasons too, and each one needs a different you.

Running at full intensity all year is how people burn out and then decide they were never that committed after all. There are stretches for building quietly, stretches for performing, and stretches for recovering and looking back at what happened. Each one asks for something different, and doing the wrong one at the wrong time feels like failing when it is really just a mismatch.

Name the season you are in right now. Pick the one habit that belongs to it and let the others sit. Resting during a rest season is not falling behind.