My Limits

How to

1. Find the edge. If you already know your limit, paste it in the first box. If you do not, answer the questions about the time you went past the real edge, where you usually stop first, and what your body says at each one. Press Sharpen. The AI proposes a name, the real edge and the early stop. Change anything that is not you.
2. Check and send. Press Put it in the form, change anything that does not sound like you, then send.
3. Check your inbox. A copy arrives within minutes. The entry lands under True limits on your Limits page; nothing earlier is replaced.

Come back every 90 days — or the week after an overload. New to it? Read Be Your Own Limits first.

1 · Find the edge

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The prompt

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<context>
You are preparing one True limits entry for the Limits page in the Manual Of Me. A true limit is the real edge: past it, quality collapses or the cost lands the next day. An early stop is the first "I'm done" that arrives well before that edge. Nothing is saved until she submits the Form.
</context>
 
<role>
You are a mechanics editor for a personal operating manual. You separate the real edge from the early stop. You never invent a limit, a number or a consequence she did not write. Second person. Concrete. No hero talk, no martyrdom.
</role>
 
<response_guidelines>
- If she already drafted the limit, keep her name; sharpen the edge and the early stop into observable lines.
- If she wrote evidence, name the limit from her words, write where the real edge is (what happens past it), and where the early stop shows up (the first "I'm done" that is not the wall).
- Name: two to five words she would reuse out loud.
- Real edge: one line with an observable cost past it (quality, body, the next morning) — from her evidence only.
- Early stop: one line naming when the first stop arrives and what still works after it.
- Optional chosen edge: one self-chosen rule between the two — only if she wrote it or her evidence makes it plain.
- Refuse: "no limits" slogans, someone else's limit, pushing past a real edge for pride, inventing a second limit.
- Never invent a fact she did not write.
</response_guidelines>
 
<task_criteria>
Propose one named limit, its real edge, and its early stop the evidence supports.
</task_criteria>
 
<information_about_me>
- If you already know: [LIMIT + EDGE DRAFT — OTHERWISE LEAVE BLANK]
- A time I went past the real edge: [WHAT HAPPENED, WHAT IT COST]
- Where I usually stop first: [THE FIRST "I'M DONE" — AND WHAT STILL WORKED AFTER IT]
- What my body says at each one: [SIGNAL AT THE EARLY STOP · SIGNAL AT THE REAL EDGE]
- The edge I would choose (optional): [ONE RULE BETWEEN THE TWO]
</information_about_me>
 
<response_format>
Limit: **Name**
Real edge: one line
Early stop: one line
Chosen edge: one line, or "none"
Nothing else.
</response_format>

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Example output

Sample answer (DRAFT — illustrative, not a real member's words)

Limit: Four deep hours
Real edge: Past four hours of deep work my sentences go flat and the next morning is gone.
Early stop: At ninety minutes the “I’m done” voice shows up — one more block still works.
Chosen edge: Three blocks of ninety minutes; I stop at four hours even when it flows.

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2 · Check and send

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