Choose a task you want to approach, rather than one selected only to satisfy someone else. We are designing an easier start. The plan can be small enough that it feels almost incomplete.
How to use this page
Describe one task and answer the three prompts. Use a task with no urgent safety consequences. If the task involves legal, financial, or medical decisions, use this page only to organize a question or appointment.
Name the next physical action
What would someone see you do first? Try "open the email draft" or "put the laundry basket by the door." If the action still contains several choices, make it smaller. You can ask another person to help identify a start.
Prepare the conditions
List only the materials and information needed for that action. Notice what is missing. Choose a location with tolerable sound, lighting, and interruptions. A shared room, limited equipment, or caring responsibility may require a different plan; these are real constraints.
Decide when enough is enough
Choose a brief trial and a clear finish, such as finding one number or sorting five items. At the stopping point, decide whether to continue, pause, or seek help. Add a cue for returning so a pause does not require remembering everything from scratch.
Reflection prompts
Use these questions in conversation, on paper, or in the downloaded PDF. You may adapt or skip a prompt.
- The task that matters to me and the first visible action
- Materials, information, and environmental support I need
- My stopping point and a cue for returning