Choices & More Choices: Decision fatigue weighing you down?

As we approach the end of 2021, one of the themes I see emerging in my conversations with clients is some serious decision fatigue. It makes sense. Prior to the pandemic, statistics reported the average adult was making over 35,000 decisions a day. Even early in the Covid crisis, we had fewer decisions to make than we have had over the last year. As restrictions loosened and vaccines became available, suddenly things weren't as black and white as they had seemed early on. Are we ready to gather? Indoors or outside? How many people is too many? It's exhausting. If you are a parent, you have to make these decisions for more than just yourself. As they like to say here in the south, Blessings on you!

​Being overwhelmed can lead to a host of unproductive behaviors. Sometimes we procrastinate and avoid decisions. Other times, we may swing to impulsive or even irrational decisions. Enough already. How can we make it better?

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