How's your summer going?
That early summer heat wave sure was something else, wasn't it?!
Once the heat eased a little I walked over to a local bakery to pick some focaccia bread for supper. I got a little overwhelmed (must've been that CRAZY heat) by the amount of options at the checkout:
debit or credit?
checkings or savings?
10, 15 or 20 % tip?
The girl at the counter apologized, "I'm sorry you have to go through all these.."
I probably wouldn't even have noticed this minor glitch - I mean how many of those kinda choices we have to make at least once a day - if I didn't spend full 30 minutes the night before trying to cancel a lane swim: press 1 for registrations, press 2 for cancellations, press 3 for a live agent... Needless to say, between the heat and this press 1-2-3 frustration, I felt just a tiny bit sensitive...
Sensitive or decision-tired?
Researchers have discovered - yes, there are actual behaviour scientists that study this stuff! who would've thunk! - that "making many decisions leaves a person in a depleted state," impairing their future activities.
"Each time we make a deliberate decision, however inconsequential it may seem, our brain is processing different scenarios and evaluating all the options.
All the decisions we make add up, so, too does the amount of processing required by our brain.
Just like any other muscle would, our mental muscle gets tired. In addition to fatiguing us over a course of a day, making decisions, even small ones, interrupts our acute train of thought.
Our brains must drop whatever they were currently stewing on just to evaluate what kind of socks we should wear,"
write Brad Stulberg and Steve Magness, authors of Peak Performance, The New Science of Success.
The point is it all adds up, and it all matters, and we end up - unbeknownst to ourselves - wasting our precious internal resources on trifles... Decision fatigue is REAL - and it is a real nuisance, especially when our resources are a little bit compromised!
I've been trimming satori offerings for a while now, even though at first I wasn't quite aware of the big "why." Simplifying just felt real good....This year I am finally fully - and consciously - aware of the soul-sucking impact of decision fatigue.
Thus, only 2 fall class options: Pain Care and Core Restore.
No decision fatigue! Well, at least not about your yoga class, anyway....
Studio Class Pass - Core Restore - 10 weeks
Dates: Tuesdays, September 14 to November 16
Times: 6:00 - 7:30 pm, 90 minutes.
Cost: 320$ + GST / 295$ + GST if registered before august 18.
20 spots available
