You may believe that as a person in charge of a business and your personal life, the more decisions you make, the more successful you will be. The problem is that the average individual already makes roughly 35,000 decisions per day, from what they'll wear and listen to in the car to what they'll eat for dinner. This is an invitation to decision fatigue.

There's a reason Steve Jobs wore the same outfit every day and Michael Crichton (Jurassic Park author) ate the same lunch every day until he finished a book. Jeff Bezos claims that in order to execute his job well, he just has to make three or four essential decisions per day. Warren Buffett only makes three or four decisions per year.

What I mean is that being your own best boss isn't about making more decisions; it's about making fewer but more essential ones so that you don't burn out and can make the best decisions possible.

In this blog, I'll teach you how to automate your day to prevent decision fatigue. You might be amazed at how much more free and energized you feel once you remove some of those options from your plate.

Let's get started...

No. 1 Decision Fatigue Destroyer: Schedule Everything

I wrote about priorities last week, so today is a follow-up in that we're discussing how to clear the way for those priorities to be effortless. But can you remember what the article's main point was?

Yeah… It's the idea that if something isn't on your calendar, it doesn't exist.

Do you think it's a little lazy to add the same thing twice in a row? It isn't. Actually, it's really deliberate. And I'll say it over and over and over until every agent I see follows a strict schedule that maximizes their HABU (highest and best use of time).

It is not freedom to decide what you will do right now. Freedom is knowing what you're going to do and where it'll take you. That is strength.

No. 2 Decision Fatigue Destroyer: Morning And Night Routines

Another thing you'll hear me mention repeatedly. The most essential thing you have going for you is your mindset. It is more important than the amount of money in your bank or the people you know because, with the right mindset, everything else will follow.

And it all starts in the morning. And your day begins the night before. So you'd better have your morning and evening rituals down pat.

Begin by going to bed at the same time each night and waking up at the same time each day. Lay out your clothes the night before and you'll wake up knowing just what to do first.

Don't just tell yourself, "I'm going to exercise, meditate, and eat breakfast." Which one will you do first, second, and third? What kind of workouts are you planning? Where and for how long will you meditate? What are you having for breakfast? Will you have the same thing the next day? What about next Sunday? When are you going to go shopping?

It is vital that you explore these options now and then include them into your routine. You'll have to make these selections every morning and night if you don't. You'll wake up unsure, go to bed feeling more exhausted than before, and won't sleep nearly as well. You are wasting energy if you do not have your routines down pat.

No. 3 Decision Fatigue Destroyer: Standard Operating Procedures for Everything

Say it along with me... SOPs... Standard Operating Procedures.

Those three words will save your sanity and your business as you scale. This is because they are all about overcoming decision fatigue.

As you're probably aware, a SOP is a recorded step-by-step description of some task or action in your firm, such as how to deliver a listing presentation or what and when to send customer appreciation presents. Having ANY SOP is extremely beneficial, but the actual strength comes when you start stacking SOPs and creating systems to govern your systems.

Jamie McMartin, one of my coaching members, became serious about SOPs when she set a goal of taking 500+ postings in a single year. She understood that if she and her team were to meet such a lofty target, they couldn't be juggling so many different parts of so many transactions in their heads. Every email had to follow a proven template, every listing presentation had to be consistent and rock solid, and every team member's specific job description had to be set down so clearly that anyone could follow it.

She wrote SOPs for EVERYTHING, even how to develop new SOPs. Jamie's team is now so well-organized that she could hand you all the documentation and you could operate her team for her.

No. 4 Decision Fatigue Destroyer: Mastermind Groups And Guidance

The majority of this essay is on how to make fewer decisions by not making the same mundane decisions on a regular basis - because it's tedious and unproductive. Another sort of decision weariness stems from simply not knowing what to do.

I'm seeing agents who wake up every day and decide to run plays that aren't working because they don't know what else to do or where to start. They don't have a plan and no one is backing them up.

When you need to make an important decision that is draining your energy, you should not do so alone. According to Napoleon Hill, the most underestimated and crucial principle of success is having a mastermind group since numerous minds working together are much more powerful than one working alone.