Look around your room. What did you choose, and what’s just there because nobody moved it? Same goes for your habits.

Look around and some of what is in there was chosen and some of it merely landed, and the two are almost impossible to tell apart until you ask. Habits work the same way: a bedtime, a route to school, who you sit with, a subject you are sure you dislike, most of it arrived by default and has since been passing as a decision. Inherited and chosen feel identical from the inside.

Find one object that is only there through inertia and move it or bin it this week. Then take one habit and ask whether you would pick it today. Keep whatever survives the question.