2nd July 2025
When you reached home in the evening after a hard days work, and were asked by your spouse, “What would you like for dinner?”
Have you ever responded by saying, “Whatever, you decide.”
You are most likely tired of all the decisions you had to make during the day & suffering from ‘Decision fatigue.’
This can occur when you have to make too many decisions over a short period of time.
With decision fatigue, decision-making becomes increasingly difficult & the quality of your decision-making progressively detiorates.
It is important to prioritize the decisions you must make versus those you can delegate or delay.
Experience can help you prioritize where to focus your energies and which decisions deserve attention now versus later versus never.
The average person makes 35,000 decisions daily.
The successful have eliminated 34,965 of them.
While most people exhaust their mental energy choosing what to wear, eat, or prioritize, high performers have cracked a different code entirely.
They don’t optimize for productivity.
They optimize for decision preservation.
The formula is deceptively simple:
> Same uniform → Zero wardrobe decisions
> Pre Decided meals → Zero food fatigue
> Same routines → Zero workflow confusion
> Same standards → Zero negotiation with themselves
Steve Jobs was known for mostly wearing a black turtleneck, often paired with blue jeans and New Balance sneakers.
Jobs adopted this style to simplify his wardrobe and reduce the number of daily decisions he had to make, freeing up mental energy for more important tasks.
Every single task of successful people gets filtered through three brutal questions:
1. Can I delete this?
2. Can I automate this?
3. Can I delegate this?
If it survives all three, only then does it deserve their attention.
Here’s what they understand that others don’t:
Your brain has a finite amount of decision-making capacity.
If you waste it on trivial choices, then you’ll have nothing left for the decisions that actually build wealth, relationships, and impact.
This isn’t about being boring or rigid.
This is about being strategically ruthless with your mental bandwidth.
That is why, successful organisations have pre defined proceesses & well defined SOPs.
The successful don’t work harder.
They work on fewer things with complete focus, preserving energy & having crystal-clear priorities.
Barry Schwartz in his book ‘The Paradox of Choice’ said it beautifully,
“Learning to choose is hard, Learning to choose well is harder & learning to choose well in a world of unlimited possibilities is harder still, perhaps too hard.”
Ask yourself, “What is one decision you make repeatedly that you could eliminate today?”
Your future self will thank you for the mental space you create & stay blessed forever.