In an emergency drill, you don’t stop to grab your stuff. Know what’s worth saving before the alarm.

Drills teach you to leave things behind, because deciding what matters in the moment is slow and the moment is short. The deciding happens beforehand, calmly, while nothing is at risk. Ordinary life has versions of this: which commitments you would drop in a bad week, which people you would call, what you would keep if everything had to shrink. Knowing in advance makes a hard week far simpler.

Write down the three things you would protect if your week fell apart, then what you would let go. You are not expecting disaster, you are saving yourself the decision.