Open your habit app. Count how many you have active. Now be honest: how many do you actually check? How many are just visual noise you guiltily ignore?
If you have more than 5 active habits and you're not a Tibetan monk, you probably have too many.
The more-is-less paradox
Each added habit competes for the same limited resources: your energy, attention, willpower.
Better to do 3 things with 90% consistency than 10 things with 30% consistency.
The inventory exercise
Take pen and paper. List all your habits. For each, answer:
1. Do I still believe in this?
2. Am I doing it with real consistency?
3. Does it bring me closer to who I want to be?
4. What would happen if I eliminate it?
The three categories
Keep: Habits that work, that you do, that matter. These are your core.
Pause: Habits that may be good but aren't priority now.
Delete: Habits that no longer serve you. Let them go.
Eliminating habits isn't failing. It's making space. September is coming. Arrive light.