Make choices you can fall asleep next to.

There is a quiet test that happens when the room is dark and there is nothing left to distract you. Whatever you did that day is sitting there, and no explanation you rehearsed for other people works on yourself at that hour. A decision that survives that moment is usually a sound one.

Use the test in advance rather than afterward. Before you commit to something, picture lying in bed with it later tonight, and let that ordinary, unglamorous check carry real weight.