But this morning I made a new list. I named it the “Me List.” These are things I am going to do for me. Not all at once, but things I know are things that will make my life more pleasant, and I’ll feel better about all those other things I have to do.

So here’s five things I decided I’m going to do for “me” this week:

1. Go to the gym.

2. Have coffee with Nancy.

3. Buy that eye cream to fight my eye wrinkles.

4. Take a morning walk.

5. Watch my husband clean the house!

Remember, you can decide what you should do for you.

Prioritize – by focusing on what’s really important, you can isolate the important decisions from the non-important or life-altering decisions.

Categorize – put all those little decisions in their own little ‘buckets.’ Reduce the number of decisions by grouping them in their own categories and attack them one bucket at a time.  An example would be food decisions…what to make for breakfast, lunch and dinner for the kids.  Group all of those little questions into one category for the week or for the month and attack that problem one time and one time only.  Make five lunches for the week instead of one lunch a day for five days.

More decision making strategies to come.