Decisions & Decision Fatigue
Have you ever heard the advice that if something isn’t a ‘hell yes’ it’s a ‘hell no’?
It sounds great, right? A life where everything is a simple ‘no’ when it’s lukewarm until you feel an overwhelming sense of ‘yes’ - pure confident bliss!
However, here’s the problem with that advice: There’s not a lot of Hell Yes’s in a home project (am I right?)
For example, how many times have you said ‘yes’ to a compromise between you and your significant other to make you both content all while not really knowing how it will pan out.
Because while planning a home project might start off strong with confidence, most of our decisions turn lukewarm and you start to feel the resistance, often because of fear of the allusive “I’m / we’re going to do it wrong”. Our lives are not made up of sure decisions.
That said…
Some of the best decisions I ever made have come from a place of unknown. But they all have things that helped them along.
Like, narrowing down to a few options and getting help from people you trust. *Shout out to my network!*
Like, trusting the professionals and seeing that unknown decision become a “hell yes!”
Like, knowing it’s a ‘hell yes’ on a higher-than-expected product or service, but figuring out a way to make it work; whether it’s taking money from one area or going to work and making more. It could just be the price getting in the way.
Or just sleeping on it, looking at other alternatives, and still knowing it’s the ‘best yes’ days or even weeks later to make that final decision. Sometimes all you need is a little time.
Simply educating yourself, weighing the odds, looking at the big picture (hello budget!), and putting trust in the people you hire to help make those decisions for you is all you need to move forward.
So, from now on, consider that even when it’s not a ‘hell yes’, it might still be a ‘yes’, and thank your future self for showing up and making a decision.
- Chelsey
Ps. You can find a ‘hell yes’ here! If you're looking for more clarity on what you want, what it might look like, and how to get there, I created this for you.