We need a bit of Lent every day, often many times a day.

We need to be ever more ready and sensitive to the "passive" Lents that we're presented with every day. 

Opporunity to smile when we don't want to, to work a few minutes longer or with renewed love of God in  doing our work.

Taking the smallest piece of food quietly, a hidden moment with God. 
Holding back a sharp personal criticism.
Less "sighing", more happy yes to God.
Less interior complaint/
More serving of others, quietly.
Less me time. 

Less "counting" wrongs of others, or rights of ours.

More detachment, more simplicity, more effort in our relationships.

Lent is more a spirit than a specific period of time, though as humans we seem to respond better in recurring ways, cycles.