“Misogi” is traditionally a Japanese Shinto purification ritual with deep cultural and religious significance, meaning purification, cleansing, or washing away.

We all have a threshold for the amount of success, love, or joy we allow ourselves to hold. The moment we flirt with a life beyond that threshold, our nervous system protests, and we find ways to sabotage the excess.

Self-discipline is not willpower. It’s clarity. It’s courage. It’s awareness.

You’re not fighting your habits. You’re fighting physics. Your brain is wired—literally—for ease, for safety, for the path of least resistance. So when you decide to “get your life together,” and stack 12 new habits in one Sunday…