Close the gap between who you say you are and who you are at 7 a.m. That’s the whole project.

Character is whatever is already running before you decide to perform. There is the version of you that gets described and the version that exists on an ordinary morning with nobody watching and nothing at stake, and the distance between them is the real work of a life. Nobody closes that gap completely. The aim is to keep it narrowing rather than widening.

Pick one thing you say you value and do the smallest version of it early tomorrow. Choose the habit nobody would ever witness. Close the distance by raising the private version rather than lowering the public one.