There are lots of safeguard strategies, though. My favourites include prevention, creating rules for yourself, making checklists, shifting your frame of reference, and making the invisible visible.

Safeguard Strategy 1: Prevention

You can use the principles behind HALT as a safeguard for decision-making in general. If you have an important decision to make, ask yourself: “Am I hungry? Am I angry or otherwise emotional? Am I lonely or otherwise stressed by my circumstances, such as being in an unfamiliar environment or pressed for time? Am I tired, sleep-deprived, or physically fatigued?” If the answer is yes to any of these questions, avoid making the decision if you can. Wait for a more opportune time. Otherwise, your defaults will take over.

Safeguard Strategy 2: Automatic Rules for Success

Why not bypass individual choices altogether and creat an automatic behaviour— a rule— that requires no decision-making in the moment and that gets no pushback from others?

Safeguard Strategy 3: Creating Friction

If there were a recipe for accumulated disaster, it would be giving the best of ourselves to the least important things things and the worst of ourselves to the most important things.

Safeguard Strategy 5: Shifting Your Perspective

Changing your perspective changes what you see.