Let us speak the truth. You are not tired from making too many decisions.
You are exhausted because you do not know who you are.
Every choice—from strategy to budget to personnel—becomes an existential crisis because you operate without a center, without an inner law. An adult makes an average of 35,000 decisions a day. You cannot win this game by managing decisions. You win by transcending it.
The problem is not fatigue. It is a crisis of clarity.
Friedrich Nietzsche wrote: "He who has a Why to live for can bear almost any How."
Your "Why" is not clear, so every "How" drains you. The solution is not to make fewer decisions. The solution is to become the person for whom most decisions are self-evident.
Forge Your Inner Law:
Your One Non-Negotiable Principle: Choose the one value that stands above all others. Integrity? Compassion? Courage? For me (George) is love of learning. This only value is your primary filter. A decision that violates this principle is an automatic "no," regardless of the short-term benefit.
Values articulation: Clear vs. confused about values. Be clear.
Your 12-Month Horizon: Define the one summit your team must conquer in the next year or half a year. A single sentence. Any decision that does not lead you closer to that summit is noise.
Time orientation: Past, present, or future dominant. Be obsessed with the future you are creating.
Recognize Your Pattern: You are stuck in a repetitive loop. Perhaps you are addicted to external validation (How often do you seek confirmation? ) or you avoid conflict.
Conflict avoidant vs. assertive: Your crisis of clarity is merely a symptom of this unexamined pattern.
Stop managing decisions.
Start embodying clarity.
When you know who you are and what you stand for, the fatigue vanishes. It is replaced by precision.
Clarity is not found; it is forged. This is the work of a blacksmith. If you need a smith to assist you at the forge, I am here.