Do you ever feel like you’re drowning in decisions before you’ve even finished your first cup of coffee? You’re not alone. If you’ve heard the claim that the average person makes over 30,000 decisions a day, you know it’s not just the big choices—like hiring a new team member or rolling out a new process—that wear us down. It’s the tiny ones, too: “Do I wear my blue scrubs today, or do I need to dress up?” “Do I answer this email now or after lunch?” “Should I follow up with that patient today or tomorrow?” Multiply that by a busy week, and no wonder we sometimes feel like we’re the authors of our own chaos.
But what if the problem isn’t just the number of decisions, but how we make them—and whether we’re letting our feelings take the wheel?
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