Focus Tips
Decision Fatigue
Preserve your willpower for the choices that matter most.
The Problem
By evening you have made hundreds of small decisions — what to wear, what to eat, which email to answer — and your brain is depleted. Now the important choices feel impossible and you default to whatever is easiest, often against your goals.
Strategies to Overcome It
- 1Automate trivial decisions: same breakfast, capsule wardrobe, meal prep.
- 2Make your hardest decision earliest in the day when willpower is fresh.
- 3Use "if-then" rules: pre-decide so the moment does not require thought.
- 4Reduce your options — fewer choices means less fatigue.
- 5Batch similar decisions into one sitting instead of spreading them out.
Your 2-Minute Action
Write down the one decision you have been avoiding and the default choice you will take if you do not decide by tonight. Then make the call now.