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Recommended AI: ChatGPT, Claude
I brought over the little ones pacing around your mind lately. Not to get rid of them — naming them just makes them less scary.
Mong · Species: a meerkat that can't sleep without checking
Personality: small, sensitive, always up on its hind legs scanning around.
- Favorite food: an unanswered chat window. Toss it one 'left on read' and it paces all night.
- How to soothe: decide before bed that 'if there's nothing I can do now, Mong sleeps too'. The urge to check calms when you sort by 'is it controllable' — if it's out of your hands, the worry can stay on standby.
Slowpoke · Species: a turtle carrying 'not-done tasks' on its back
Personality: looks relaxed, but the shell keeps getting heavier.
- Favorite food: small tasks you put off with 'later'. The more they pile, the bigger the shell.
- How to soothe: take just one off the back and finish it in 5 minutes. The weight of delayed tasks comes not from the count but from the 'sense of unfinished' — clearing one lightens the shell a lot.
Peep · Species: a chick that's noisy before a big day
Personality: peeps and runs around the whole house the night before a talk or deadline, then goes quiet when the day actually comes.
- Favorite food: a 'tomorrow' that hasn't arrived. The more you pre-imagine the future, the plumper it gets.
- How to soothe: split the worry onto two plates — 'do today / hand to tomorrow-me'. Peep can't stand things mixed together, but sorted, it naps fast.
Today's one care
Today, Slowpoke looks hungriest. Take the smallest task off its shell and finish it in 5 minutes. The others just need a pat today.





