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Hi everyone and welcome to another episode of Living in Exhortation.
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My name is More Munro and today we are going to be talking about decision fatigue.
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Have you ever heard of the term decision fatigue?
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This happens to many of us, to even the best of us.
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Decision fatigue comes it comes about when as a leader you find yourself making notable resolutions all day, every day over the operations of an organization.
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Whether they are small or very tough high-level settlements, the back stops with you.
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Every decision that we make during the day takes a toll on us, whether physically, mentally, or even emotionally.
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Some of these decisions need a lot of thinking to come up with solutions to them.
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Some need direct answers on the spot, some need one to have negotiation skills to maneuver, and more so, there are those that need one to quote unquote sleep on them in order to have the right response to the problem the next day.
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At the end of the day, having engaged one's mind and body in such strenuous actions, you become tired and really exhausted on all fronts.
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Therefore, I choose to believe that rest is important.
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According to Robin Sharmer in his book The 5 a.m.
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Club, he says that the human discipline muscles and muscles here it's in it's in quotes that are responsible in decision making are the same muscles responsible for self-control.
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In this case, what this means is when one is worn out at the end of the day, their mind is not only tired of making work decisions, it's drained of making personal decisions.
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As a matter of fact, this means that the mind is weak at this point due to the fatigue, and therefore the self-control muscle is also fragile.
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Robin also states that the fact that human discipline muscles get tired from all the decision fatigue explains why so many massively successful people end up doing something foolish that destroys their careers.
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Have you ever found yourself watching the news or scrolling scrolling through the social media and a scandal pops out of a huge magnitude, maybe of a highly respected leader of a nation or even a corporation found in a misconduct case, and you ask yourself of all people, why him or her?
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I did not expect that to happen to such a person.
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Maybe it's because we expected better from them.
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Sometimes we make business decisions late in the evening when we are so tired, of which once we start suffering the consequences of these decisions the very next day, we realize that that that specific decision was such a dumb move.
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I've come to observe, especially with men who have just gone through a very tough day, we normally take about one or two hours by ourselves in the evening to recover.
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We don't like to be bothered during this period.
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I now understand why.
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Most of us realize that by this point we are so exhausted, we are not in a position to be thinking straight.
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We need to recuperate.
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Even some go to the extent of saying that after a specific time in the evening, they will not be accepting phone calls unless it is an emergency.
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Such people you'll find that they gave in to the acts that causes their downfall because all day long they were making important decisions.
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By the time it was evening, they had no willpower left in their battery to manage the craving.
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Having this in mind, it means that most mistakes are done during this period, mostly in the evening.
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That is when decisions are made that one comes to regret in the morning of the consequences they have to endure.
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Therefore, I believe it is important for us to always find time to reflect.
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This can happen to any of us.
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No one is immune to falling into temptations that break us in the end.
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None of us is an exception to making poor work decisions.
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Practicing empathy in these scenarios is important.
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As Alia stated, human discipline is like a muscle.
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It needs to be built to be taken to quote unquote the gym every day through practice to ensure that it stays solid.
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We have to put boundaries in place, especially if we are self-aware of our own frailties, in order to have our own time to recuperate during specific times when we know we might not be ourselves.
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Everyday recovery of our minds, bodies and souls helps us get rejuvenated and become our best selves once again the following day.
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I finish with this.
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We should never push this aside.
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Let it always remain unnegotiable.
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Food for thought?
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I choose to believe so.
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Thank you so much for listening.
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Until next time, take care of yourselves and have a good one.