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Practice to Profit: Simple Business Growth Strategies for Sustainable Success
Designing Your Week To Beat Decision Fatigue
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Exclusive access to premium content!Too many choices can quietly drain the best parts of your day. We unpack how decision fatigue shows up in business and at home, and how a handful of practical systems give you back energy, focus, and control. From crafting a 90-day plan to building a content calendar that actually gets used, we walk through the small pre-decisions that make big work easier. You’ll hear how flexible scheduling helps during low-motivation stretches, why white space belongs on your calendar, and how to stop context switching so your best work gets your best hours.
We also dive into the realities many solopreneurs face: operating without a team, juggling emails and DMs, and trying not to live in fire-drill mode. Instead of pushing harder, we outline a path to lead like a CEO by doing less deciding and more executing. That includes simple checklists for recurring tasks, a weekly planning ritual that sticks, and a lightweight system for choosing the right task based on your current energy. If you’re neurodivergent or just overloaded, these structures reduce overwhelm without boxing you in.
Boundaries are the throughline. Using a word of the year as a decision filter helps you say no faster and with less guilt. At home, clear if-then rules reduce negotiation and protect your bandwidth. When everyone knows the plan and the consequences, your nervous system can finally settle. The result is fewer daily frictions, more consistent output, and a calm baseline that supports growth.
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Years ago, I took a productivity course that was written by a man. I can't even remember his name at this time, but I remember he talked about decision fatigue and how it's important that you don't make a lot of decisions in your day because it's going to make you tired and makes you less productive to be able to get things done. And he talked about how it's why he wears the same color shirt and bottoms every single day. He always wears a black t-shirt with jeans, let's say, for example. Although I might be thinking of Simon Cowell at this point, he might not have said that. But he definitely said wear the same thing pretty much every day so that it wasn't a decision that you had to make when you went into your closet. He also talked about being able to not have to make decisions like within your daily life. And one of the things that cracked me up about this, of course, is he talked about how his wife took care of the kids and the house and all the things that we have to do. So, as a woman that is dealing with decisions on a daily basis, decision fatigue is bound to happen. So, what we need to be able to do in our business is make it so that we don't have to continue to make all of these decisions. We want to have fewer decisions so that you're going to have more capacity to do the things that needs to be done in your business. This is why we create a 90-day plan and we write out the tasks that we're going to do. It makes it so that there isn't a ton of decision fatigue about the idea that it's really important that you make sure when you are creating content that it is already a content calendar. It's already planned out. You know where you're going with the products that you have and the services that you offer. So I want you to continue to keep this in mind. When you are looking at what sort of decisions do you need to make within your business, when you can have a plan that is going to help you. Now I understand that every day isn't going to be all the same. You're not going to have the same level of motivation. You're not going to feel like you're up to it. Now, we just talked last episode about when you are neurodivergent and how it can feel as if you are being bombarded with more and more, and your nervous system can end up taking over because of that and shuts down, and you end up either ghosting the tasks that you're trying to do or you go into a total spiral of anxiety. Now, because of that, again, we talk about the that idea of flexible scheduling, being able to look at your week so that you can make sure that it's planned out. And again, that is a way in which to avoid decision fatigue. When you can determine what task you're going to be doing ahead of time and leaving yourself some with space, like we talked about yesterday, it's going to make it so that there are less and less decisions that you have to make. You're going to be able to get more done without feeling overwhelmed, burnt out, and exhausted. And that is the goal. We that is the goal for you to start becoming a CEO within your business rather than a worker be, right? We don't want to always be feeling like we're constantly doing all the things. Now, this is what I'm gonna say to you. A lot of us are solopreneurs. We may not have a full team, we may not have a team member at all. And because of that, you're listening and going, Jenny, I still have to do all the things. You may have to do the things, but you don't have to do it helter-skelter. You can do it in a way where it has a system that has been put in place for you to make it easier so that you can look at what it is that you need to get done and just go and do it. Instead of being bombarded with putting out fires from emails, from DMs, from the things that are taking your energy and causing you to put your nervous system into overdrive. It's important that you start to find ways so that you don't end up with decision fatigue because you've already made sure that you have set boundaries in place for yourself, whether that is based on your word of the year, which you have heard me talk about last week, that that is a way that you can decide what is worth your time. Say no to the things that are not going to be in line with where you are trying to go with your goals, with your potentially with your word of the year. I really want you to start to think about how can I make it so that I don't have to make a ton of decisions within my business. You obviously, I can't, I wish I could help you not have to make a ton of decisions with your family. It's not that simple. We all know that. But you can try to set up distance, set up some sort of even rules with your family. There have been many a times with my daughters, we are in the teenage years, where a simple eye roll just drives me over the edge. And I had to put it in place for my youngest. Listen, this is gonna be really simple. Moving forward, anytime you eye roll me, I'm taking your phone and you're not getting it back till the end of the day. Now, that happened. I think I put that, set that in place with her on Wednesday. She had her phone taken that day and then hasn't done it since. So it's not to say she's gonna forget, but having that system in place for what happens if you do this, then this, right? It's the same thing with your family, making sure that you can have those kind of honest conversations with your partner, with your husband, with your wife, so that it can be set up ahead of time and there's not a lot of decisions needing to be made. You all can know what direction you're trying to go with in your family decisions. All right, I want you to take this episode and really start to think about how you can make it so that you have less and less decisions that you have to make within your business so that everything just kind of runs evenly and keeps your nervous system nice and at a very leveled volume and route.
