We have a limited capacity for the number of good decisions we can make daily because decisions take energy.

Regardless of how much we improve in the decision-making process, we still have a limit to the number of good decisions we can make in a day.

Some people limit the number of decisions in their day so that they can focus their energy on making the important decisions.

When Obama was President, he had trusted staff members who would select his clothes and meals for each day. 

Steve Jobs was famous for his consistent uniform of black mock turtle neck, jeans and New Balance 991 shoes. 

Removing the seemingly simple choices from their daily lives freed up energy for them to put towards making decisions that would have a larger impact on the country and the company.

People obsess over the morning routine of high performers in hopes of unlocking the secret to greatness. But the secret to their greatness isn’t what they’re doing every morning, it’s the fact that they’re doing the same thing each morning. 

Their morning routine eliminates the need to make decisions which leaves them with the energy to make the best decisions throughout their day.

This isn’t about wearing a uniform or optimizing your morning routine. It’s about looking for the places in our lives where we can reduce the energy going into simple decisions so that we can maximize the energy going into the bigger decisions that make the most impact.