Have you ever faced decision fatigue?

Day 63

What should I decide?

One of the hardest decisions that I have made in my life was to leave a comfortable job and shift my settled career in the pursue of a new career search. This decision included plenty of uncertainty and decrease in the financial status. Ideally shifting to a new career incorporates approximately three to four years of career investment to earn a career growth. The course in the pursuit of the dream career included many challenging decision-making process that at times created a syndrome the decision fatigue.

So here is my question: Have you ever faced decision fatigue?

On an average day, we make hundreds of decisions. The severity of these decisions can range from simple decisions like what to eat, what to wear, to many complex financial decisions. What is the relationship between decision-making to mood of the person? What is the formula of an experience decision-making? Does the ratio between the good decisions and bad decisions play an direct correlation to the decision fatigue syndrome? 

What are the cycles of mental strain a human process through decision-making? The amount of decisions processed in a day has a direct relationship to the quality of decision-making. The numerous decision-making incorporates the phase of restless brain that causes the human to take shortcut methods to obtain the results. Does the overload of decision-making create the brain to stop functioning causing a decision fatigue syndrome? 

The element of decision fatigue has the potential to create depletion in the mental energy. The biggest challenge in the depletion of the mental energy is that it is normally undetected and confused for another symptom. Reduced mental energy has the probability to effect the physical energy of the human being. 

“Decisions are like wolf packs, you invite one decision, you invite the pack” 

~Lenji Jacob

Reference

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Why is grass always greener on the other side?

Day 48

A very common saga that my ears have captured among the many Indian Americans residing in this country about how their lives could have been much better in India. But these are the very Indians when they packed their bags to migrate to the United States, they were the happiest campers. They ensured that everyone in the neighborhood knew that they were going to the great country and will be earning in dollars. Now that they have resided here for almost a decade and had to face the hardships of earning every dollar in this country, now they dream of going back. I have seen many Indian American residents move back to India after a decade of working in this country. Many of them had their own reasons like “In India, we have our family”,” We would not have to work so hard”, and many more. I have seen some of the debaters, return to the United States after a period of six months, because now life is better here as per their perspective.

So here is my question: Why is grass always greener on the other side?

Why do we wish for things that we currently don’t have? Why does the value of our wish decline once the wish is in our possession? I will give you another example: A family living in a town home wanted to move into a bigger single family home after living there for almost a decade. They brought to buy a new single family home at a great neighborhood and have been living there for five years. Recently I heard an argument that the single family home is excellent but the mortgage payment is twice as higher than their first home and if they had stayed at their old home they would had paid off their mortgage. I believe this is a classic example of not being satisfied with your possession.

Do you think people who are always chasing the other side will be content? Do you think they achieve their patch of greenery or happiness? At what point should we stop chasing the unrealistic goals in life? At what point should we refocus the energy with us to find the sense of satisfaction? When should we stop blaming our present, and find an escape route with the greener grass on the other side theory? Your current status quo is the result of the decision that you had pursued. Do you agree the theory of the green grass comes because of the human tendency of comparing comforts with other humans?

“The happiness of your life is the results of the decisions you have stood by in life"

~Lenji Jacob 

Reference

1. Picture: https://artyoldbird.files.wordpress.com/2012/04/grass-is-greener-by-val-erde.png?w=374&h=400