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Hey there Reader, If you've ever hit a wall trying to decide something completely ordinary â what to eat, whether to rest, how to sequence your afternoon â and felt genuinely depleted by it, this week's post is for you. Decision fatigue is a real and researched phenomenon. But most of what's been written about it was designed for people whose decision-making day starts fresh. Ours doesn't. By the time we get to the "normal" decisions of the day, we've already run through a full round of health calculations, trade-offs, and what-if scenarios that most people around us aren't running at all. That's not a focus problem or a discipline problem. It's the predictable output of a much heavier cognitive load. The new post breaks down why this happens specifically for people with chronic illness, and walks through a handful of strategies that actually account for the conditions we're working in â not the idealized version of a day that productivity culture assumes. If any of this sounds familiar, I think it'll resonate. You can read it here: Decision Fatigue Is a Spoonie Problem: Here's How to Reduce Itâ |
April Smith | The Thriving Spoonie
ðŠI create resources to help people adapt to living with chronic illness so they can thrive.
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