Decision-Making With Limited Capacity

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Good-Enough Choice

Choosing a workable answer and being allowed to stop there.

A keep-close version. Read it here, or screenshot this page to have it on your phone — print and PDF copies will appear once final files are attached.

A short permission slip for the standard that saves the most capacity. 'Good enough' is not a compromise — it's the honest recognition that most choices don't improve for more effort.

The choice on my mind

What it is

e.g. Which card to send with the gift

The standard, chosen on purpose

Chosen, workable, revisable — doneIt can be changed tomorrow if it turns out to matterSomeone I trust would call this enoughIt genuinely needs more — and it gets a proper date, not a daily re-run

The one-sentence close

Said to myself, out loud if it helps

e.g. This one is good enough, and good enough is done.

Done beats perfect, and a smaller decision made today is worth more than the ideal decision postponed indefinitely. This applies to food, messages, shopping, plans and admin — most of the day's choices are exactly this size.