Habits are subscriptions that auto-renew every morning. Check what you’re still paying for.

A habit set up for one reason keeps running long after the reason has gone, because nothing in the arrangement ever asks whether you still want it. It renews quietly, and the cost is spread thinly enough that you never see a total. Some of what you do daily was decided by a version of you with different problems.

List what you do automatically every morning and evening. For each one, ask whether you would start it today from scratch. Cancel one that fails and see whether you miss it.