Are you ready for a growth spurt? Well, I've caught one for you today. One to two times a month,

I'll give you a short message that I am calling a growth spurt that will help you narrow in on our

focus of the month in ways that are bite size and super applicable right away. So let's jump on in.

Hello, my friends and fellow progressers. I am really excited to talk to you today. I have been

having this topic on my mind all month and wanting to do a growth spurt on it. But I've been in the

middle of making about a million decisions on the home that we are in the middle of renovating,

which is so fun. But we are making so many choices and they're all important. They all have

money attached to them and they could all potentially, you know, have impact on my family for

years and years to come. So there's been a lot there and I just thought, you know what? This is

totally relevant to what I wanted to discuss anyway. And it's decision fatigue. Research shows that

we face and choose 35,000 conscious choices a day. And no, that's not me misbeaking, although I do

that regularly. This is 35,000 conscious choices a day. That is the research. Have you ever heard

of the phrase decision fatigue? This is what we face every single day, but also some seasons are

even more exhausting this way than others because it is our season of making a lot of choices.

Maybe you are facing this in your day to day life where you have so many decisions every single

day that you feel exhausted and can't make another choice one the night time comes. Or maybe you are

in a season where you are facing some, some, you know, shifts in your, your path. Maybe you're

thinking, do I go down this path or do I go down this path? So whether this is a day to day

thing for you or you're at the fork in a road for your own life, this is something that we deal

with regularly, this decision fatigue. I am in the middle of reading Emily P. Freeman's book,

the next right thing. And here's a quote that stood out to me. She said, quote, what a privilege

is to have a choice to make at all. We live in a world where many people don't have the luxury

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