What is a practice?
A practice is something, anything, you do repeatedly, regularly, often with the goal of maintaining proficiency or gaining mastery. It’s not perfection. It’s pointing yourself toward a thing and doing something regularly to keep moving toward that thing.
Writing a book? Set aside a block of time to write every day or every week, even if no words come to you.
Running a marathon? Choose and follow a training schedule to prepare your body for running 26.2 miles.
Finding inner peace? Sitting on your meditation cushion or yoga mat each day even if your mind is wild or your body is stiff.
Or maybe the best example that every one of us has done: learning to walk. A baby doesn’t stop trying because they aren’t good at it. They fall and get up over and over until they stay up. They keep practicing walking until they walk. (And continuing to walk, just walking, with intention, can be the simplest practice there is!)
Simply doing it, whatever ‘it’ is, that is a practice.