Real decision fatigue exists. Are too many choices impeding your advancement? Fortunately, there is a better method to accomplish your goals while maintaining your independence.

You might believe that as someone in charge of a business and your own life, the more choices you make, the better your chances of success. The issue is that the typical person already makes over 35,000 decisions per day, ranging from what to dress to what music to listen to on the drive to what to eat for dinner. The result will be decision fatigue.

There's a reason why Michael Crichton, the author of Jurassic Park, ate the same lunch every day until he finished writing the novel, and Steve Jobs wore the same outfit every day. According to Jeff Bezos, he just needs to make three or four important judgments a day to efficiently carry out his duties. Only three or four decisions are made by Warren Buffett each year.

In order to avoid burnout and be able to make the best decisions possible, being your own best boss doesn't involve making more decisions than necessary, but rather fewer but more significant ones.

In this article, I'll outline a few strategies for eliminating decision fatigue through daily automation. You might be shocked by how much more liberated and alive you feel once some of those decisions are taken off your plate.

Let's begin...

Plan Everything

I wrote about priorities last week, so in a way, this is a follow-up because we're discussing how to make those priorities effortless. But can you still recall what that article's main argument was?

Yeah… It is the idea that something DOES NOT EXIST if it is not on your timetable. Do you think including the same thing twice in a row is a bit lazy? It isn't. Actually, that was done on purpose. And I'll keep repeating it until every agent I come across follows a strict schedule that maximizes their HABU (highest and best utilization of time).

Freedom does not mean being able to choose your immediate course of action. Always knowing what you're going to do and where it's going to take you is what freedom is. That's strength.

Routines In The Morning And At Night 

You'll also hear me mention this repeatedly. The most valuable asset you possess is your thinking. It's more crucial than the money in your bank or the acquaintances you have because, with the correct attitude, everything else will fall into place.

Your mentality also starts in the morning. And the night before is when your morning begins. Therefore, you should be set in your morning and evening habits.

As a starting point, try going to bed and waking up at the same time each day. Lay out your clothes the night before so that when you get up, you know exactly what to do first.

Do not simply state, "I'm going to exercise, meditate, and eat breakfast." What will you tackle first, second, and third? What sort of exercise will you perform? Where will you meditate, and for how long? What will you be having for breakfast? Tomorrow, will you eat the same thing? Perhaps on Sunday? When do you plan to go shopping for it?

It is crucial that you take the time to think about these options right away, after which you should make them a habit. If not, you'll need to decide on these issues every morning and every evening. You won't sleep quite as well, you'll wake up unsure of yourself, and you'll feel more exhausted when you go to bed. You're wasting energy if you don't have your routines under control.

SOPs For Everything

With me, say it.

standardized methods of operation

As you start to scale, those three words will keep you sane and save your company. They all focus on overcoming decision fatigue, which explains why.

An SOP, as I'm sure you already know, is a written, step-by-step description of a specific task or action in your company — for instance, how to conduct a listing presentation or what and when to provide customer appreciation presents. Although having ANY SOP is incredibly beneficial, the real strength comes when you start stacking SOPs and developing systems to govern your systems.

When Jamie McMartin, one of my coaching clients, became serious about taking 500+ listings in a single year, she also became serious about SOPs. She understood that if she and her team were going to meet that challenging goal, they couldn't be mentally juggling so many different components of so many transactions. Every listing presentation had to be uniform and flawless, every email had to follow a tested template, and every team member's precise duties had to be spelled out in such detail that anyone could understand them.

SOPs were written by her for EVERYTHING, including instructions on how to write new SOPs. Jamie's team is now so organized that she can hand you all the paperwork and let you manage her team.

And what about...

All of Jamie's SOPs are available to you if you attend this year's Success Summit and are featured in the toolbox of her case study, which is one of the 12 Ultimate Real Estate Playbooks we're giving away. You desire to lead a business with the same clout as Jamie McMartin. She only simplified things for you. Simply catch up with us at Summit.

Mastermind Groups And Guidance 

This article spends most of its time discussing how to make fewer decisions by refraining from making the same, ineffective choices every day. A different kind of decision weariness, though, results from just not knowing what to do.

There are agents out there who choose to run plays that aren't working when they first get up in the morning because they are unsure of what else to do or where to begin. Both a plan and support are lacking for them.

You shouldn't make decisions alone when they are essential and zapping your vitality. Having a mastermind group, according to Napoleon Hill, is the most crucial and underappreciated success concept because numerous minds working together are much more effective than one working alone.

As a result, if you decide against hiring a coach (which you should), you should look for a group of committed, like-minded agents who can help you brainstorm solutions to your difficulties and keep you accountable.