Most organizing advice assumes you have unlimited decision-making capacity.
You don't.
Research shows we make about 35,000 decisions per day. By evening, you're depleted. That's why the mail piles up, the counters stay cluttered, and you can't bring yourself to deal with it.
You're not lazy. You're experiencing decision fatigue.
The solution isn't willpower. It's decision architecture.
Instead of deciding what to do with every single item every single day, you create frameworks:
- "Mail gets processed Saturday mornings only"
- "If I haven't used it in 6 months and don't have a specific plan to use it, it goes"
- "Clothes that don't fit current me get released with gratitude"
Pre-made decisions eliminate the daily drain.
This is part of The CLEAR System™—my framework for creating sustainable clarity without exhausting yourself.
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