Get Ruthless & Kill Decision Fatigue

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“I know exactly where I want to go, but I always feel like my head is pulled in a thousand different directions. I need time to just sit, think, and make the right call here.” -CEO, and former client.

If you’re ambitious and running hard then you're no stranger to making tough calls. You likely make many of these calls on any given day. With decisions upon decisions to make (in both your personal and professional life), it can get messy and overwhelming…and can impact you more than you know.

I watch people attempt to tackle this in all sorts of ways. But what you need to do is figure out how to compartmentalize and categorize these decisions. Specifically, identifying those lower-level mind pulls and putting them on the sidelines so they don’t eat away at your energy…and take you away from the things that matter most. 

High performers count on having the ability to tackle the big decisions, so they can’t dedicate too much of their energy to the smaller ones. They need to preserve their mental energy—it’s what I talk through with many clients and what we’re going to talk about today.

Decision fatigue is the hidden enemy of workplace productivity and a thief of energy.

Your cognitive bandwidth is one of the most important assets of your career; it’s what you’ll use to push any sort of progress, direction, or initiatives. Every day, you have to be in the position to make the right decisions—and every day, you have to *get* yourself into the position.

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Let’s put you in a high-performance mindset, give you a look at what fuels that drain (so you can kill those), and real strategies to tackle decision fatigue.