A floor, not a ceiling

Almost everyone in this state reaches for a target. I will do a juz a day. I will pray tahajjud. I will get back to where I was in Ramadan.

Targets are set on good days for bad days, and they fail on the first bad day. Then the failure becomes evidence, and the evidence feeds the loop from lesson two.

A floor works the other way round. It is the smallest amount you could still do on your worst day, in your worst week, when you are ill and someone is shouting. It is set low deliberately, and it is set so that it does not break.

Two rakahs. Ten ayahs. One page. Whatever survives a genuinely terrible Tuesday.