WHY THE COMMON RULE? The Common Rule tries to do two things. First, wake you up to the idea that you already have a default pattern of everyday habits that are forming enormous parts of your spiritual life. Second, the Common Rule offers a path forward. The four daily and four weekly habits are a way to guide your ordinary life into a new kind of formation – formation in the love of God and neighbor. It’s not enough to know about Jesus, we long to become like him. In the big and little things.