Your patterns know more about your priorities than your promises do.

What you actually do over time reveals what you actually value, regardless of what you have declared. Promises describe an intended self, and they are made in a state of sincerity that daily life does not reproduce. The pattern is unsentimental and it does not exaggerate. It simply records where your hours went.

Look at the last two weeks without judging them and ask what someone would conclude you cared about. If the answer differs from what you say, decide which one you want to be true, and then adjust the smaller unit, the day, rather than the declaration.