255. How To Be Awesome At Avoiding Decision Fatigue
How To Be Awesome At Everything
Lindsay Dickhout
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🗓️ 12 July 2023
⏱️ 21 minutes
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Summary
Are you ever facing a pretty easy decision and you’re like - I don’t even know I can’t make one more decision today.
You’ve reached… decision fatigue.
That point to where you’ve made so many decisions that you’re just out of decision battery.
And that’s my favorite way to think about it.
We start with full battery in the morning - and we are the most sharp.
For every decision we make, our decision battery drains just a little bit.
Studies show that we make 35,000 decisions in a day… no wonder sometimes we hit our max!
But knowing this, we can set-up routines and plans and habits to where most of our decisions are made for us already.
We’re going to prioritize what’s most important and simplify things so that we have more energy for the important decisions that really matter.
How have I gotten to episode 255 of this podcast without talking about this yet!!
This is SO important!!
We’re talking about how to take SO MANY of the decisions you make each day - and take the decision part out of it.
What to wear, what to eat, what order to do things, what exercise to do, what to do first in the morning, what to do before bed.
We are going to focus on each thing and figure out works best for us. Don’t just keep going on autopilot!
-Sometimes we postpone things
We aren’t sure what task to tackle on our to do list
We aren’t sure what to say back to a text message
-This all stops us from moving forward!
-Then, dont go back and reanalyze
Decide and set it up and move on
-Simple decisions are now not as simple!
How do you want your coffee? How do you want to build your salad?
There are 34 different ways to cook your eggs and 14 different types of apples.
It’s so empowering to figure out what you like then set up routines and habits so that you’re not making the same decisions over and over.
Ways to reduce decision fatigue and make better choices
-reduce amount of decisions that you make- what is actually essential
-when you’re in a growth phase, don’t be afraid to say no to things - no and move on
-automate decisions!! Like… wear the same thing everyday!
-New habits
-Do your most important things early in the day! When you are the most fresh
Your brain is the most sharp first thing in the am.
Whatever requires the most mental energy - do that first up!
-take breaks!
-break things down so they aren’t so complicated
-do one thing at a time- make one good decision- take all the time you need then move on
Take care of your body and mind! Everything always comes back to that!
Cheers to saving energy for things that actually matter!!
To learn more about everything Lindsay has going on- including her upcoming mindset course - visit www.HowToBeAwesomeAtEverything.com.
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| 0:00.0 | Are you ever facing a pretty easy decision and you're like, I don't even know. I can't even make one more decision today. |
| 0:08.0 | You've reached decision fatigue, that point to where you've made so many decisions that you're just out of decision battery. |
| 0:15.1 | And that's my favorite way to think about it. We start with a full battery in the morning and we are the most sharp. For every decision |
| 0:22.1 | we make, our decision battery drains just a little bit. Studies show that we make 35,000 |
| 0:27.8 | decisions in a day. No wonder sometimes we hit our max. But knowing this, we can set up routines |
| 0:33.5 | and plans and habits to where most of our decisions are made for us already. |
| 0:42.1 | We're going to prioritize what's most important and simplify things so that we have more energy for the important decisions that really matter. Let's go. You're listening to the |
| 0:47.6 | How to Be Awesome at Everything podcast, where we're obsessed with life hacks that make your |
| 0:53.4 | life more awesome. |
| 0:55.0 | Your host, Lindsay Dick Hout, is an entrepreneur and business owner, a mom and wife, |
| 0:59.9 | and someone who wants to do things over the top at all times. |
| 1:03.8 | This concept started as a collection of things Lindsay has learned that she was documenting |
| 1:08.1 | to get to her kids one day, and now it's a podcast. |
| 1:11.3 | Join us on this journey where we talk about how to be awesome at everything we do. |
| 1:16.1 | Here's Lindsay. |
| 1:22.3 | I cannot believe that this is episode 255 of this podcast and I have not talked about this topic yet. |
| 1:31.3 | It is so important. Today we're talking about how to take so many of the decisions you make |
| 1:38.9 | each day and take the decision part out of it. Things like what to wear, what to eat, what order to do things, how to tackle your |
| 1:49.4 | to do list, what exercise to do, what to do first thing in the morning, what to do before |
| 1:54.1 | bed. |
| 1:55.6 | We make 35,000 decisions in a day. |
| 2:00.5 | But so many of those decisions are the same decisions every single |
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