Make choices that allow your self-respect to wake up beside you tomorrow.

Some choices are pleasant in the evening and expensive in the morning. The message sent in anger, the commitment made to avoid an awkward moment, the line crossed because it seemed harmless at the time. What you are really deciding is what kind of company you will wake up with, since you carry the choice into the next day and every day after.

When a decision is pulling at you late at night, try postponing it until morning as a standing rule. Very little genuinely requires an answer within the hour. If it still looks right after sleep, you have lost nothing, and if it does not, you have saved yourself a bad start to the day.