813. Do You Have Decision Fatigue?

What are those things that are draining your battery in the background? Because if you have goals and you have things that you want to do.

It is going to pull from it. You are going to drain your battery.

Way faster and you may not even get to the things that you want to do because you're constantly tied up and exhausted in the things you're not pulling the trigger on.

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Hunters, double duty, because we're trying to find two of them. That really brings us to today's topic. Decision fatigue. Guys, it's real. If you feel exhausted, if you feel worn out, if you feel tired and you can't explain why, investigate. If you have decision fatigue. Do you have, I would say, the computer windows running in the background? Do you have too many of them open? Are you constantly thinking about making big decisions and give yourself sitting in limbo. Sitting in limbo. And if so, it's going to make you tired. It's going to make you feel run down. I've been like, God, I feel tired. I can't explain why. And you've been the same way. And it's because we have decision fatigue.

So there are different things that you can do in your life. Number one, you can absolutely go down a list of the open loops that you have. What are maybe some open conversations that you're going back and forth on? Oh, I need to have this conversation. I'm not sure when, what should I say? And start looking at each loop one by one and tackling it in that way. So pros and cons of that conversation, what does that need to look like and by when? And essentially, what you need to do is start closing out your windows on your phone and your computer. Using that as an analogy, obviously. But what are those things that are draining your battery in the background? Because if you have goals and you have things that you want to do.

It is going to pull from it.

You are going to drain your battery way faster. And you may not even get to the things that you want to do because you're constantly tied up and exhausted in the things you're not pulling the trigger on. So what are the things that you need to do in order to start making those decisions? I know for Chris and I, right now it's a serious pros and cons list. It's a realistic. Where are we fooling ourselves? Where are we trying to embellish things? Where are we being romantic?

Where are we selling ourselves?

Where are we selling ourselves? And an idea, just because we're looking at the very romantic part. And with the cons, like, what are the true cons and what are the true pros. And sometimes those are hard to measure because they're not tangible, right? These are all scenarios. And that's why you're exhausted is because we are creating in our mind every scenario and you are playing 5,000 movies a day of possibilities. When you're not doing this, you just get to focus, right? So those are the things that you need to do is come up with that pros and cons list. I know that Chris and I are going to take some good time and do that coming up real soon because we are. Every single day is something different. You can feed the idea that you want to a point where it's actually blinding you and it's not a good thing.

Or you can be feeding beating, you.

Know, the negative to a point where it's blinding you and you're missing out on the full opportunity.

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And so point number two would be go get three, four, five people you really trust to be objective along with you and run your pros and cons by them. Let them call you out if they see that you're really selling yourself one way or selling yourself another. Or maybe they're going to add a couple blind spots that you're not seeing or that you didn't want to see. Really assemble that committee, so to speak, to help you through some of these major decisions. Because they're going to be able to have a totally different perspective than you. And it's not going to be blinded with either rose colored lenses or dusty colored lenses. It's just going to be them outside looking in and seeing things that you wouldn't see otherwise. And then number three, the third thing you can do. This sounds silly, but it helps. When you have major decisions going on and you're getting decision fatigue that's making you tired from them, then you have to see where you can cut other decisions out of your life temporarily. In other words, ordering dinner or going to a restaurant. Go to the easy, familiar one. Don't try and pick something new that time. Getting dressed. Throw on the simple outfit you know works every time. Don't try and try something new or stress over what to wear. I know these are real little things, but 4, 5, 6, 7, 10 small autopilot decisions a day instead of trying to make them new groundbreaking decisions by just putting those things on autopilot, it's going to free up more energy for the larger decisions you're trying to make.

Yeah, try not to add anything new. Try not to add too much like outward socializing on top of that as well. Those are all things that are going to drain your battery. Like maybe try to just keep those conversations, like I said, to people that you really care about, whose opinions really matter, who've had a lot of experience in that department because you're at a highly influential state when you are in between, when you're in a fork in the road of like your life is going to go in one direction or the other. These are really important decisions. So you're highly sensitive and influential. So be aware of your conversations, but also keep those open because you can also decide to only talk to people who will influence it in the way that you want.

So be aware.

Keep those objective as well.

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All right, you guys, we are so grateful to be on this journey with you. I hope those ideas that we gave you help and it is a real thing. So the faster that you can face those things, the better. And until next time, we will see you next week. Bye bye.

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