Buy your favorite staples and accessories in multiple colors if you can, including your shoes. You can do something similar by wearing the same type of clothes each day, like jeans and a button-up, a skirt and a tank top, etc. (Though I'll admit, there are days when even that is a struggle.) I still have to choose which geek tee I wear each day, but that usually doesn't trip me up for very long. The yoga pants are from Walmart once I discovered how comfy they were I bought 5 pairs. Suddenly I didn't have to think, I didn't have to decide, and I had something I didn't hate to get me through 'til lunch. No more staring wide-eyed into the fridge, no more asking myself, "What do I feel like eating?", no more starving myself until my blood sugar tanked because I "just can't deal with this right now" and then later inhaling a pack of stale crackers because it's too late to make "real" food. But it also gave me something wonderful I'd never had before as an adult: a no-brainer way to start my day with adequate food that wouldn't hurt me later. Did it kill my soul some mornings to eat the same thing AGAIN? So much yes. For over a year I ate the exact same thing for breakfast: a microwave egg bowl from Aldi.
So here come 4 everyday decisions I've found to be the most draining, and how I've learned to side-step them to save my spoons.įirst, let's start with the Big One, and my first successful experiment in limiting choices:ĭiscovering the Low FODMAP diet was my first step down this path, since it automatically took a bunch of options off the table. As I result I have less internal paralysis (we've all hit that wall where we can't make even the simplest decisions, right?) and more focus and time to give the rest of my day. In fact, for the last year or more I've been consciously limiting my choices in most areas of my daily life, so I can save my energy for more important things. I hadn't thought about it in those terms, but I've found this approach helps IMMENSELY when you're overwhelmed or just short on mental energy. ( Here's his video, if you want to check it out.) I was reminded of this when a photographer I follow on Instagram talked about how he "cheats indecision" by wearing a simple green shirt every day. For some of you, life is a choose-your-own-adventure candy store: the more options, the better.īut for a lot of us - and especially those of us with anxiety or other mental health struggles - too many choices are not only overwhelming, they make us absolutely miserable.
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