The Ritual Effect

Our lives are filled with repetitive tasks meant to boost productivity - what we come to know as habits. Over time, these habits (are done on autopilot. But when a layer of mindfulness accompanies a habit - when we focus on the precise way an act is performed - a ritual has been created. Now, an everyday act goes from black-and-white to technicolor. And as author Michael Norton explains here, it's these rituals that make life worth living.