The Bare Minimum
A quiet system for the days you cannot do everything.
For the days you forgot you were allowed to do less.
Inside
What's inside
The Bare Minimum is an 18-page workbook for the days you cannot do everything, and should not have to.
It is built around six categories of life that quietly need to keep running on hard days: kitchen and food, kids and school, household and cleaning, hygiene and self-care, money and admin, and work and commitments. For each one, you decide what the smallest possible version looks like. Not the ideal version. The version that holds the line.
The Decision Maker walks you through the spiral your brain goes into when you miss something on a hard day. The single-page version distils your whole answer onto something you can keep on the fridge.
You build it once, when you have the capacity to think clearly. You return to it whenever a season feels heavy.
Practical details
At a glance
Who this is for
For the days, weeks, and seasons when you are doing too much with too little. For a new baby, a hard stretch at work, illness, grief, burnout, or a heavy month with no clear cause.
For the person holding a list in their head that does not get smaller, on a day when their capacity does.
It is not a routine to optimise. It is the list of what actually has to happen for things not to fall apart, and the permission to let everything else wait.