{
  "schema": "vedokrok.public-item.v1",
  "release_id": "MHC-RPUB-20260920-75ad787a",
  "url": "/knowledge/give-freed-capacity-a-named-destination",
  "id": "MHC-D-RESEARCH-1195",
  "version": "0.1.0",
  "title": "Give freed capacity a named destination",
  "summary": "Stopping creates capacity. It does not choose what gets it.",
  "kind": "protocol",
  "body": "Decide where the released capacity goes before the old goal disappears from the plan. A replacement does not have to be another ambitious project: it can be recovery, family time, maintenance work or a higher-priority goal. Meta-analytic evidence links goal reengagement capacity with quality of life, but the evidence is associative rather than proof that immediate replacement is always beneficial.",
  "limits": [
    "Reengagement is not a command to stay perpetually busy. The quality-of-life evidence is correlational, and rest can be the correct destination."
  ],
  "topics": [
    "union-goal-portfolio-and-procrastination"
  ],
  "intents": [],
  "source_ids": [
    "RS-F00BB27B455663A5"
  ],
  "evidence": [
    {
      "claim": "A 2020 meta-analysis of 31 samples found small positive associations between goal disengagement capacity and quality of life (r=0.08) and a larger association for goal reengagement capacity (r=0.19), with important moderators.",
      "source_id": "RS-F00BB27B455663A5",
      "role": "supports",
      "note": "These are associations between capacities and quality of life, not causal estimates for stopping or replacing a particular personal goal.",
      "locator": "Abstract results"
    }
  ],
  "use_when": [
    "Stopping or pausing a goal frees time or attention that is likely to disappear into low-value activity."
  ],
  "avoid_when": [
    "Reengagement is not a command to stay perpetually busy. The quality-of-life evidence is correlational, and rest can be the correct destination."
  ],
  "example": "Dropping a low-value evening project can become two protected family evenings, not two new browser-shaped holes in the week.",
  "check": "The released capacity has an explicit destination or is deliberately left unassigned; it did not silently refill itself.",
  "steps": [
    "Another existing goal is clearly capacity-constrained.: Move a bounded amount of the released capacity there and define the next visible output.",
    "Overload or recovery debt was part of the reason for stopping.: Protect some of the capacity as deliberately uncommitted or recovery time.",
    "No replacement is clearly better.: Keep the capacity unassigned until the next review instead of filling it by default."
  ],
  "sources": [
    {
      "id": "RS-F00BB27B455663A5",
      "title": "Goal adjustment capacities and quality of life: A meta-analytic review",
      "url": "https://doi.org/10.1111/jopy.12492"
    }
  ],
  "relations": [],
  "collections": [
    {
      "id": "RC-01E44BC725C55AA0",
      "title": "Choose, adjust and finish goals without turning life into a busier calendar",
      "url": "/collections/choose-adjust-and-finish-goals-without-turning-life-into-a-busier-calendar"
    }
  ]
}