Decision Fatigue

Decisions can be tricky.

Sometimes you don’t know-

What to pick,

Where to go,

What to do,

How to do it,

Who do it with,

Decision fatigue is real.

I felt it most during the height of the pandemic-

Is it safe?

Is it okay?

Do we go?

Do we stay?

What do I believe?

Who do I believe?

Can we trust it?

I still feel this fatigue daily.

Being a teacher means I make a lot of decisions in a given day.

I also help my students feel control by giving them choices so they can make a decision.

Which means I need to decide what choices to give…

It’s an endless cycle.

Also- no one told me that the worst part of being an adult is needing to decide what’s for dinner every.single.night.

I mean it’s one thing to decide for myself or even for my partner, but when you have kids there is a bit more thought that needs to go into it-

Will they eat it?

Is it healthy enough?

Is it too hot?

Did I cut it the wrong way?

Is it touching the other food?

Am I repeating this too quickly?

How long will it take to make?

Do I have the ingredients?

Ugh- decisions are the worst. I’m tapped out by the end of the day. I wait all day just to sit down and not have to decide anything. Just be.

Then I remembered, I need to decide what to slice about today.

And so the cycle continues…