“Dailiness” is one of the most important cyclical patterns we perform regularly. Life happens in acts of repetition, over and over. It is the thousand small eye blinks of routineness that make up our lives. Nature awakens daily and shows us slight visible and invisible variations carving throughout the terrain of our world. Our personal inner and outer topographies are shaped the same way. The most important aspects of our lives, such as marriage, parenthood and our careers, are built from tiny daily, mundane moments. These moments in the aggregate amount to wonderful momentous meanings.

We often take on new hobbies to add more meaning into our lives. We prepare to learn new skills by attending workshops or educational classes. These experiences are enlightening as many of us anticipate these moments to satisfy our creative pursuits. When we practice the newly learned skill over and over, it can create a deep inner spark and mastery within. This is achieved through the act of “dailiness.”

Through embodied presence, we mark what matters to us and how much it matters, and then we decide to invest day by day.

Everyone partakes in mundane aspects of life, acts of “dailiness” that may seem arbitrary; however, at closer glance, these decisions hold more weight than we know. The daily acts of dropping your children off at school, making a nightly family meal, or brewing the morning coffee while enjoying time for solitude all have small and large reverberating effects.

Other seemingly extravagant acts might be “meaning-making experiences” if practiced as acts of “dailiness.” Daily creativity through art, journaling rituals or any regular act of creating something regardless of the magnitude, may become part of what makes life meaningful.

We can also analyze the “dailiness” of things that do not contribute to sustenance in our lives. We can begin to carve out destructive habits that have seeped their way into the crevasses of our life routines.

We are what we do. Our daily work is a doorway. The process can become sacred as we begin repeatedly each day. When we take a closer look at what we have allowed to become part of our “dailiness,” we can see how we are shaped — and make changes or repeat actions that are aligned with who we want to be.

We have all had moments when we have moved away from the “dailiness” of our lives – on an extended vacation or going through a life change – only to wish for the “dailiness” we already had. In these moments, we can celebrate and return to “dailiness” and honor the small building blocks that make our lives the most meaningful.

Jennifer Di Francesco is a wellness explorer and desert adventurist and can be reached at www.coachellabellaboho.com.