Why You're Mentally Exhausted by Afternoon: Decision Fatigue for Entrepreneurs

01/10/2025 11 min Temporada 1 Episodio 10
Why You're Mentally Exhausted by Afternoon: Decision Fatigue for Entrepreneurs

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How many decisions do you make in a typical day? If you guessed 50 or 100, you're off by thousands.By 1 p.m., you can barely decide what to have for lunch even though you handled complex client work all morning. Not because you're lazy—because you've already made 200+ decisions before noon.One Tuesday, the breakthrough came from tracking not just what you did, but how many times you had to decide what to do. No wonder you felt fried.Decision making isn't just mental effort. It's mental fuel. Every choice depletes a finite resource. By afternoon, there's nothing left for the choices that actually matter.The solution isn't making fewer decisions. Find out how to conserve your decision-making capacity. Listen now.Subscribe: https://fivemilestones.kit.com/newsletter Connect on LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/sheilaslick/YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/@fivemilestones More at: https://fivemilestones.com/show/ Sponsored by: https://PodToBook.aiKeywords:decision fatigue, batch processing, task batching, mental energy management, entrepreneur productivity, cognitive load, decision making capacity, micro decisions, grouping tasks, workflow optimization