Hello and welcome to this solo podcast. I usually do a solo podcast when I have things that I want to say.

And today I feel like I have a lot to say and I think that's possibly because I didn't sleep much last night.

But who knows? Could be anything. And today's topic that I want to talk about is decision fatigue and willpower. And a lot of the things I say are going to resonate a lot with anyone who is doing committed or commit to six or just generally anyone who's working with me one to one as well. So this should give you a bit more of an insight into why I have you do some of the things that I

have you do or why I suggest that you do some of the things that I suggest that you do.

And a lot of the programme for commit to six and committed and one to ones actually is built

around some of these fundamentals. So it has been said that willpower is needed to accomplish anything worthwhile.

And I would agree with that statement.

But the problem is that it is also said, although there is some debate around this,

that willpower is a finite source and that

you can deplete that source. So if you think of willpower like a muscle, as you use it, it becomes

tired, becomes depleted of energy and performance drops. The same principle can be applied

to willpower. And I'm going to give you a few examples.

Probably the most famous example of depletion of willpower or decision fatigue was a study on judges.

In this study, they looked at what would influence favourable outcomes. And the biggest

predictor of this, of favourable outcomes from the judge, was time of day, which is very

interesting and probably brings into question many other things. But the notion was, or what the researchers propose, is that this was due to decision

fatigue.

As decision fatigue sets in, it's much easier for a judge to say no and make that as a fairly

easy decision, no, maybe someone stays in jail, as opposed to a

favourable decision which is possibly more risky, especially given the consequences of judge-like

situations. But the same is true for you or for anyone making daily choices. And I'm going to come on to this a little bit later,

but other examples of situations where you can see willpower

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