It has been a doozy of a year(s).
And I don't know about you, but I feel like I am reeeeeally starting to approach the limit of things I can take. Like, I'm strong...and I am very, very tired.
When my bandwidth is really tapped, my capacity to make decisions deteriorates. So when I start to sense the depletion setting in, I kind of pre-determine certain choices, to spare myself the mental pressure of choosing later.
For example, (almost) every time that I sat down to watch Netflix in the past month, I put on Modern Family.
Why? Because until recently, I hadn't watched it all the way through, there are a hundred seasons of it (so I knew it would last a while) and, it usually makes me chuckle. (This is also why I've watched The Office eleventeen times.)
Without that pre-determined choice, I just can't even. I will scroll the options on Netflix for endless hours without committing, and end up feeling frustrated and overwhelmed instead of relaxing and enjoying it...which defeats the purpose.
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