The big decision can wait one night. You’ll be a smarter person by breakfast.

STILLNESS

WHAT THIS MEANS

Urgency is almost always attached to decisions by circumstances rather than by the decision itself. Sleep does something reliable to a hard question: the parts that were only emotion lose weight overnight, and what remains in the morning is closer to the real shape of the choice. Very few things genuinely expire before breakfast.

Make a rule that anything significant waits one night. Write your current answer down before you sleep so you can compare. If it is the same in the morning, act on it with more confidence than you would have had.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What could you sleep on instead of settling it tonight?

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