Decisions, decisions

Ready? Go:

Chocolate or vanilla?

Bike or walk?

Soup or salad?

Shorts or jeans?

Unsweetened or nonfat?

WAIT, WAIT, I’M THINKING! I heard that the average person makes thousands of decisions each day and can make about 200 decisions per day on food alone. I’m one of those people that will stand in front of the shampoo isle in Target for a half hour smelling each one and contemplating my decision. What a waste of time.

So when I read one of author Gretchen Rubin’s “Secrets of Adulthood” in her book The Happiness Project, I thought “huh!”

Rubin eliminates this entire decision debacle by noting:

Most decisions don’t require extensive research.

This applies to smaller decisions like where to eat dinner and larger life decisions. (Should I enter a relationship? Should I take the job?) Sometimes, you just have to go for it and see what happens! You can read about Gretchen’s decision secret HERE.

* Photo from Fort Laramie, Wyo.