A small preparation can remove a decision from the hour that has no room left for one.

Decisions are cheap when you are rested and expensive at the worst moment of the day. Choosing dinner at seven, when everyone is tired and hungry, is a different task from choosing it on Sunday with a cup of tea in your hand, though it looks identical written down. Preparation is really about moving choices from bad hours into good ones.

Find the hour that regularly defeats you and take one decision out of it this week. Lay out the clothes, decide the meal, pack the bag the night before.