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Replan After a Fire Drill

Replan a derailed day by closing the fire-drill loop and preserving one meaningful deep-work output.

Omar's planned strategy block is wiped out by a client fire drill, and only one 70-minute window remains. Fire-drill recovery: close the incident loop, narrow the output, protect the revised block, and schedule a later check. The common trap is continuing to monitor the incident while pretending to do strategy. That creates a residue-heavy pseudo-block. Close the incident loop Write: client stable, Lina owns follow-up, next check 4:30, no action needed before then. This gives the fire drill a container so it stops claiming background attention. Shrink the deep output Change "draft full strategy" to "write decision criteria and two…

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