Be Frugal With Your Decisions

The average adult makes over 35,000 decisions a day while young children only make 3,000 a day. Are the increased amounts of decisions we make as we grow older worth the mental capacity we dedicate to them?

When we were younger, we had less choices to make. What to eat, what to wear, everything was decided for us by our parents. As we grew older, things got a little bit more complicated.

We got more choices to make. Social media bombardes us with fashion models and gadgets, convincing us to buy things we may or may not need. We feel pressured to live up to these new standards.

Off to college we go where we are forced to make a decision on our career and ultimately where we will end up in the future. All without prior experience or knowledge as to what the world outside of school actually is like.

When we get out of college, our understanding of the world grows significantly from knowledge to experience. We are then bombarded with more choices from which car to buy all the way to deciding between things such as a traditional IRA or Roth IRA.

Can all this knowledge and experience be a bad thing for us? We are stressed out each day knowing we must live up to the world’s expectations of making the “right” choices.

Not all knowledge is bad. The problem lies in the amount of it we receive daily and how we digest it. The more we read up on news and the world around us, the more confused we become.

So how do we filter out what is bad and focus on what is good?

As you grow older, things that seemed important when you were young, aren’t as important now. Focus on acquiring knowledge most useful to your current situation and go from there.

Knowledge, begets knowledge. The more you learn of something most important to you, the more you crave more and the deeper your knowledge of that…

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