Monday morning, I need to check my fortune before I can get moving

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• I need to check today’s fortune before opening my first email — As soon as I get to work, I check today’s fortune on my phone. I can’t open my first email until something good comes up.
• I feel at ease only when the fortune is good — When the fortune is good, my judgment feels right too. When it isn’t, even what I planned to do feels like the wrong choice.
• I check my fortune again before pressing Send — At 8:40 on Monday morning, I check today’s fortune again as I’m about to send a revised email. The cursor blinks, but my finger is still.
• A fortune isn’t meant to make decisions for you — A daily horoscope is less a verdict on your day and more an invitation to reflect on what you want to be careful about today. When you hand over your decisions, your own judgment steps back.
• Write tomorrow’s task and first move in one line — Before bed, make a note of one thing you must check tomorrow and one first move you can make right away without checking your fortune. Keep the two separate.
• Before the first email, check in with yourself — The goal isn’t to stop checking your fortune. Tomorrow morning, simply ask yourself once what you want to open before you look at your fortune.