Use Habits to reduce decision fatigue

As you make more decisions (especially difficult ones), and as you consider more options, you start to get mentally tired making your subsequent decisions worse and more difficult.

An excess of options will also increase your likelihood to avoid making a decision entirely.

• The strategy works because it reduces "decision fatigue," saves you time, and forces you to prioritize your goals
• This method removes the friction of starting a new task. By determining your most important task the night before, you eliminate indecision and t...

1. Impaired ability to make trade-offs - this is an energy-consuming type of decision making and when we're faced with too many we end up mentally depleted
2. Impulse purchases - decisions regarding prices and promotions produce decision fatigue
3. Decision avoidance - when our men...