{"product_id":"good-enough-by-friday","title":"Good Enough by Friday","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eDeciding on a deadline instead of waiting for certainty\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfectionism rarely announces itself. It shows up as one more comparison, one more search, one more day. A method for setting a real deadline on an ordinary decision and deciding well within it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAbout this book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003ePerfectionism rarely presents itself as perfectionism. It arrives as diligence: one more comparison, one more review, one more day to be sure. Each additional step is defensible on its own, which is what makes the pattern so durable and so hard to see from inside it.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis book is about setting a real deadline on an ordinary decision and deciding well within it. Not a large decision — those get their own treatment elsewhere — but the everyday sort that quietly consumes a fortnight: which supplier, which option, which version, which of the four acceptable answers.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe method is a deadline short enough to matter, plus an explicit list of what will be gathered before it. The chapter on that list is the important one: most delay is spent acquiring information that could not change the decision, and the book gives a short test for telling the difference before spending the afternoon.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe closing chapters are about deciding when the deadline arrives rather than shortly after, and about living with a good-enough decision on Saturday — the reopening, the second-guessing, and why revisiting a decision without new information is simply the original delay wearing different clothes.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWhat is inside\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eHow perfectionism disguises itself as diligence\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eSetting a deadline that is short enough to matter\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThe information worth gathering before Friday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDeciding when the deadline arrives, not after\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLiving with a good-enough decision on Saturday\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eWho it is for\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eAnyone with a decision that has been open for longer than it deserves\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003ePeople who research thoroughly and decide late\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eReaders who want a rule rather than encouragement\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThose who decide and then reopen the decision within the week\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e\u003ch3\u003eFrom the book\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cblockquote\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe tenth comparison rarely changes the decision. It only postpones it, and calls the postponing research.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/blockquote\u003e\u003ch3\u003eDetails\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cul\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eFormat: PDF ebook\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLength: 55 pages\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eLanguage: English\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eDelivery: instant download after payment\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eProtection: none — no DRM, no device limit\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003cli\u003eThirty-day refund on every purchase\u003c\/li\u003e\n\u003c\/ul\u003e","brand":"Calma Editions","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52883390595389,"sku":null,"price":14.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1015\/3082\/9117\/files\/good-enough-by-friday.webp?v=1787107217","url":"https:\/\/shop.calmaeditions.com\/products\/good-enough-by-friday","provider":"Calma Editions","version":"1.0","type":"link"}