Your shoes wear out on the side you lean toward. Habits leave marks you don’t notice until they’re worn through.

Wear shows up where you lean. Shoes record the way you stand long before you notice anything, and then one day the sole is gone on one side and you realize you have been tilting for years. Habits work on the same timetable. Nothing dramatic happens for months, and the mark is forming the whole time, in your sleep, your temper, your spending.

There is probably something you have been doing without ever deciding to. Check one piece of evidence this week, your screen time, your bank balance, how many nights you got real sleep. Read the wear pattern rather than your intentions.