# 7 Good Minutes: Extra — Give the Late-Night Spiral a Morning Appointment

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Podcast: [7 Good Minutes](https://stenobird.com/podcast/7-good-minutes-5802935)
Published: 2026-09-15T15:00:15+00:00
Episode link: https://7goodminutes.com/guides
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Duration seconds: 107

## Resource

When the floor gives out at eleven at night, the instinct is to argue with the thought or solve the whole thing from the pillow. Neither works, because the version of you doing the deciding is the tired version, at the low point of the day, with nothing else in the room. This two-minute Extra walks through a simple handoff. One plain sentence to say when you notice the spiral starting. A five-minute list written as specific next steps instead of feelings or judgments. And one extra line underneath that gives the thought somewhere to be that isn't your head. Then you keep the appointment in the morning, spend two minutes with it, and decide in daylight what's actually real. Most nights' lists look smaller by then. The ones that don't are the ones worth acting on. Follow 7 Good Minutes for new episodes every day. Watch 7 Good Minutes on YouTube: https://youtube.com/@7goodminutes 7 Good Minutes is presented by OCEANSCAPE and published by The Extraordinary Network.

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