To Avoid Decision Fatigue, Develop Your Decision Muscle

One of the muscles we need to develop is what we call our “Decision Muscle.” The Decision Muscle is our secret weapon. It helps us to make intuitive, good decisions about keeping an object. Call it your gut, your third eye or listening to your heart. It’s that often-ignored signal to us about whether to keep an object in our life.

As we start to evaluate our belongings, it’s important to remember that these objects will create our future. Do we want to drag something that makes us sad, or remind us of unhappy times, into our future? Many of us hit mental and emotional roadblocks. We ignore what our heart has to say. We rationalize keeping something we don’t truly love because we might come off as ungrateful if we don’t keep a gift.

Maybe we paid a lot of money for the object and think we should keep it, even if we don’t love it.

Heads UP!  You’ve already paid for it once; don’t keep paying for it. Or worse, we have the space, so we think why not just keep it anyway; after all, it’s not hurting anything.

These rationalizations are roadblocks that keep us from listening to our intuition. Our intuition will tell us immediately if we love something. When we hem and haw, we switch from intuitively knowing to rationalizing emotional and mental roadblocks. These roadblocks lead to decision fatigue.

To develop the Decision Muscle, really listen to your instincts about what makes you happy. Trust your instincts. Clear out the mental roadblocks and you can clear out a lot of physical and emotional clutter.