Big decisions made at 2 a.m. look different at 10 a.m. Wait for the daylight version of you.

Late at night your thinking runs on a different mixture. Tiredness makes feelings louder and consequences quieter, so the message seems necessary and the plan seems obvious in a way it never does over breakfast. Nothing about you is broken at that hour, you are simply not the version of yourself who has to live with the choice.

Make a rule you do not have to decide each time: nothing sent, nothing bought, nothing quit after midnight. Write it in your notes app tonight. If it still seems right in the morning, you have lost eight hours and nothing else.