Future you is basically a person you’re babysitting. Right now you’re either feeding them or letting them eat off the floor.

Being decent to somebody who is not you comes much easier, which is exactly why picturing tomorrow morning as another person works so well. Whoever wakes up at six inherits every decision made tonight: the bag packed or not, the work started or not, the sleep taken or skipped. They get no vote and all the consequences.

Do one thing tonight purely for them. Lay out clothes, charge the thing, put the bag by the door. Ten minutes now buys that person a morning that does not begin in a hole.