The Dopamine Menu
A restaurant-style menu of pre-planned pleasures, written by past you for the moment of craving. Four courses: starters are two-minute lifts for the space between things, mains are real pleasures that take thirty minutes or more, sides pair with a chore to make it worth doing, and desserts are the treats that turn on you in excess — enjoyed, then rationed. A tonight's-special band holds the one pleasure you want to actually schedule this week. In the moment of craving you won't invent a better option — you'll grab whatever's nearest, and the phone is always nearest. Write the menu while you're calm, stick it on the fridge, and order off it when you're not.
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Best for: Outcompeting the phone with a fridge-door menu of better options you already chose.
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