A minimum standard protects identity during difficult periods.

During a difficult period, most of what you normally do falls away, and with it goes the daily evidence of who you are. A minimum standard, however small, keeps one thread of that evidence intact. It is not about output. It is about still being able to recognise yourself while the rest is on hold.

Choose the one thing you will keep doing no matter what, and make it small enough to survive a genuinely bad month. Ten minutes of something that is yours. Its value is not what it produces but what it preserves.