How To Avoid Decision Fatigue
Every entrepreneur, advisor, and startup wants to do one thing … accelerate progress and have their startups skyrocket to success.
From the smallest to the largest startups, it can feel like a never-ending queue of decisions that need to be made.
Because of this, it’s crucial to understand how to avoid decision fatigue and how to make progress by understanding decisions versus actions. For these two reasons and many more, I wrote up exactly what you need to be aware of in order to make increase your productivity.
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- Mark
1. How To Avoid Decision Fatigue
Every decision is not created equal!
This is the mantra every entrepreneur, advisor, startup, etc. should embrace if you’re trying to avoid decision fatigue.
And yet, this isn’t how we end up treating our decisions.
For many founders, they overanalyze even the smallest decisions and the cognitive load can be draining to our productivity and ability to make progress on our goals.
I’ve embraced a simple approach to help me make decisions faster with less overwhelm.
At the heart of it is to follow your intuition! And, here's how it works.
If you have a decision to make and the repercussions of deciding incorrectly will have minimal to non-existent ill effects then follow your intuition and quickly decide.
Does this sound overly simple? Well, it’s not because this is not how most people treat these types of decisions.
Have you ever found yourself spending 20 minutes deciding what to wear only to settle on your first choice?
Have you ever found yourself spending 20 minutes finding the perfect filter for a social media post only to settle back on the one that struck your eye first?
Maybe you haven’t hit these exact ones, but I guarantee you haven't been immune to these types of scenarios.
Imagine what would happen if you used your intuition quickly with just three of these low repercussion scenarios a day, then you could easily add an extra 60-minutes of time to your already busy schedule.
The next time you’re in one of these situations instead of dwelling on all the options follow your gut and don't look back.
2. Decision vs Action
Decisions are not actions, is the confusion many entrepreneurs make.
This confusion often causes a lack of progress in making progress on your goals.
A decision is a conclusion or a resolution. You may decide to be an entrepreneur, to be a runner, to be a …
An action is a process to achieve an aim. It is the process you put in place to found a company, to train for a marathon, or to …
But many times we confuse our decision to become something new with the actions we are doing in order to be something new. And it's understandable when this happens because deciding feels like progress.
And today, I challenge you to take one action on your decision in order to move your resolution forward on your journey to achieve your dream.