Connect one long-term direction to revisable goals, constraints and a small present experiment

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Write the chosen value or purpose the goal serves and how you would recognise enough progress.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: The result from “Write the chosen value or purpose the goal serves and how you would recognise enough progress.” does not yet meet this declared check: The direction is personal, bounded and not a worth claim.

   Correction: Return to the start of “Name the larger direction”, reduce complexity or pace, and repeat only the part needed to satisfy: “The direction is personal, bounded and not a worth claim.”

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Ask what larger purpose the goal serves, which smaller goals support it and whether another route could serve the same purpose.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: The stated goal has no larger chosen purpose.

   Correction: Ask what it serves and whether another route can serve it.

2. Possible snag: One means hardens into a mandatory identity.

   Correction: List at least two alternatives and an expiry.

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “For each important goal pair, mark supports, competes, conflicts with a hard limit, depends, unrelated or uncertain.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: The result from “For each important goal pair, mark supports, competes, conflicts with a hard limit, depends, unrelated or uncertain.” does not yet meet this declared check: No health, consent or legal boundary is averaged away.

   Correction: Return to the start of “Map goal interactions”, reduce complexity or pace, and repeat only the part needed to satisfy: “No health, consent or legal boundary is averaged away.”

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Write today’s next action, a two-week experiment and the longer direction; mark commitments controlled by others.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: A long-term direction is treated as a fixed daily schedule.

   Correction: Separate today's action, one experiment and the longer directional horizon.

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Separate skill, time, access, money, energy, care and institutional barriers; choose support for the actual barrier.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: A structural barrier is mislabelled as low motivation.

   Correction: Name the specific access, time, care, energy or skill constraint.

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Select a small action repeated under ordinary conditions, with an effort cap and no punishment for misses.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: The result from “Select a small action repeated under ordinary conditions, with an effort cap and no punishment for misses.” does not yet meet this declared check: The action fits the declared time and health limits.

   Correction: Return to the start of “Choose a minimum experiment”, reduce complexity or pace, and repeat only the part needed to satisfy: “The action fits the declared time and health limits.”

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Write when and where the action begins and what happens if the context is unavailable.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: The result from “Write when and where the action begins and what happens if the context is unavailable.” does not yet meet this declared check: The plan includes a fallback such as reschedule once or skip.

   Correction: Return to the start of “Use an if–then cue”, reduce complexity or pace, and repeat only the part needed to satisfy: “The plan includes a fallback such as reschedule once or skip.”

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “Record action completion, learning or function, conflict, anxiety/burden and support—not only streak length.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: The result from “Record action completion, learning or function, conflict, anxiety/burden and support—not only streak length.” does not yet meet this declared check: The log can show benefit, no change or adverse burden.

   Correction: Return to the start of “Track progress and wellbeing”, reduce complexity or pace, and repeat only the part needed to satisfy: “The log can show benefit, no change or adverse burden.”

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.

Reset: Re-read this authored instruction — “At the review date, choose keep, change means, reduce, pause or retire based on value, feasibility, wellbeing and new facts.” — and its success check, then attempt only this step.

1. Possible snag: Revising an incoherent route is called personal failure.

   Correction: Treat keep, change, pause and retire as predeclared review outcomes, not personal verdicts.

Stop / get help: Stop for rising anxiety, insomnia, compulsive productivity, shame, distress or reduced daily function.