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Personal Defaults (Decide Once)

Eliminate recurring small decisions by setting personal defaults: the decide-once list, the default per category, and the exception rule.

Set my personal defaults. My recurring decisions: {{decisions}} (the small choices I make repeatedly — what's for lunch, when to gym, what to wear patterns, which route, when to do admin, what to reply to invitations). Process: the decide-once conversion (per recurring decision: the default that's 80%-good — 'Tuesday/Thursday gym at 7am', 'the same 3 work outfits rotated', 'admin Friday 2pm' — chosen once, followed without relitigating), the default-quality bar (good enough beats optimal — the point is the freed attention, not the perfect choice), the exception rule that keeps defaults from becoming prisons ('I can override with a reason, stated out loud — but the default resumes tomorrow'), the energy accounting (which of my listed decisions actually cost me — default the draining ones first, keep the fun ones as choices), and the review: defaults expire quarterly — keep, adjust, or unfreeze. Output: my defaults card — one line each.

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