Choose actions your future memory can live beside comfortably.

You are constantly making the material your memory will be built from. What seems like a small choice today becomes something you have to sit with later, at three in the morning, without the context and pressure that made it feel reasonable at the time. Choosing with that future in mind is not about being rigid. It is about not handing your later self something they cannot live beside.

When a decision is genuinely close, try picturing yourself recalling it in a few years without any of the current urgency. Some options get easier to reject immediately. This works particularly well for choices involving how you treat someone, which age far worse than the practical decisions people usually agonise over.