Stop Redeciding. Predecide.

If there's one habit I had to break, it was redeciding. I'd do all the research, gather all the facts, write the lists, talk to experts, and make the best decision possible. And when it was time to carry it out and do the thing, I'd redecide. 

Sure, it's best for my bones if I strength train three times a week, and yes, the gym is right down the street, and I have the time carved out in my schedule. But it wasn't rainy when I decided that. Maybe I should start tomorrow. 

And maybe that would be fine if it were only rainstorms that threw me off track. But my lovely, creative brain doesn't need a rainstorm. It can use anything: rain, sunshine, sleep, kids, how hot my coffee was or wasn't—even if it was the exact same temperature as yesterday. 

I get it. Newness has a lovely dopamine hit that doing the same thing as I did yesterday does not. But getting that dopamine hit from newness was also costing me my goals. And it was using up all my creative energy before I ever got to work. 

So I had to figure out when to predecide and when to let my creativity run free. Going to the gym? Decide once and support the decision. Check the weather and lay out my clothes the night before. But let myself write posts on my phone in between sets as the ideas pop into my head. Work? Clear out 1-3 hour blocks each day and let myself go wild with ideas. 

I have a friend who likes to say, "Keep the simple simple so that you have energy to deal with the complex." I'd say, pre-decide so you can stop redeciding. Take back your energy from the mundane. Save all that creativity for what matters most: your work, your life, your joy, yourself.