Original Advice
“DO: Set a good-enough goal for today’s top task.”
Finish It, Not Perfect It
Uncomfortable truth: you call it standards; it's fear wearing a clipboard. You inflate the assignment until no human could complete it, then punish yourself for falling short. Today's top task does not require your flawless sacrament. It requires completion. Set a finish line a mortal can cross. Name what good-enough means. Then refuse to move the goalposts while you work.
Perfection hoards your time and starves your momentum. Anxiety promises safety through control, then drowns you in edits. Progress happens where output meets oxygen. A fixed target calms the nervous system; an infinite one keeps it sprinting in circles. Good-enough is not laziness; it's strategy. Done creates data, feedback, and relief. Precision can return afterward, like sanding after the structure stands.
Cosmic Context
You are a Mercury-forged editor in an earthy body, built to refine. Today, refinement serves you best after completion, not before.
Action
──────Define good-enough in one sentence; stop at it.
✨ You are allowed to stop when the box is checked. ✨