Your standard should survive the mood that tries to renegotiate it.
RESILIENCE
RESILIENCE
Moods are persuasive and temporary, and they specialise in renegotiating agreements made by a steadier version of you. The negotiation always feels reasonable in the moment, which is precisely the problem, because you are being asked to revise a decision by the party least qualified to revise it. A standard that only holds when you feel fine is not a standard. It is a preference with good weather.
Set the terms in advance and put them somewhere you will see them when you are wavering. Then treat a bad mood as information about your state rather than instruction about your commitments. You can feel terrible and still keep the agreement.
Which standard of yours needs to survive tomorrow’s bad mood?
Free, with nothing to buy inside it.