A lot of bad days start as a hundred little choices you made without noticing.

Bad days rarely arrive whole. They get assembled out of a late alarm, a skipped breakfast, a message you fired off, a thing you agreed to while distracted, none of which felt like a decision at the time. By noon it feels like the day is happening to you, when a lot of it was quietly set up earlier.

You cannot supervise every small choice, and trying would be exhausting. Pick one that reliably starts the slide for you, and put a single guard on it. Fixing the first domino is easier than catching the rest.