The less decisions you make, the better you become at decision-making. Have you ever heard of that? I read an article in ELLE Magazine that told me just that. So I tried it out. Anybody who knows me will tell you that indecisiveness is in my nature. I can choose an outfit the night before, change the top in the morning, get dressed and decide I don't like it when I step into the car, in which case, I run back inside the house and change the entire outfit. YUP!
It gets to a point whereby, close to the end of the day, you've exhausted all your decision-making powers and even the simplest of choices start a war in your head. The solution to this? UNIFORMITY! TRADITION! ROUTINE!
Ok.
Sounds boring, right? But it works!
I realised that striving for perfection only wastes time because no detail will ever be completely perfect anyway. So here's what I did. I decreased the amount of choices that I made on a daily basis. Starting with my clothes: I got rid of "dress sense" and established a "dress code". Every "other" day of the week would be my 'pants-blouse-and-blazer-day'. While all the other days, I either wore dresses or skirts. I decided at once that I would choose which meat packet I wanted to cook for the next night and leave it out to defrost so I would not change my mind the next evening. Furthermore, I even devised a fitness schedule so I did not wander around wasting time while I tried to decide whether to go on the treadmill for 20minutes; just chill and wait for the aerobics class at 5 or to skip gym altogether and just go jogging instead.
Yes, you may be thinking "whoa! control-freak alert!" or maybe even "loose-nut alert!" but you know what, its not about MORE control, its just about BETTER control and I have become so much better at making decisions because of it. I'm not crazy either, at least, not anymore.
Don't ever strive for perfection though. Perfect does not exist. Rather strive to be on time.
However, it is a working progress and you need to go at your own pace. I mean, I'm still deciding whether I even like this whole uniformity thing anyway. It works but I miss the beautiful mess that used to be me. My dad always used to say to me "Buhle, Variety is the spice of life". He is a Gemini. As am I. Oh. and I did mention that I'm young, didn't I? You know what the youth go-by these days: "YOLO" (thank you, Drake).
So who knows what I'll decide tomorrow...or in the next few minutes.
Decisions...Decisions... I don't know if I should wear the ankle-length striped pants or my black skinnies today at work. but then again, I wore the striped pants last weekend and Bongani might just notice that I'm wearing them twice in 2weeks ...and the black skinnies are so overrated and anyways, my white top that matches with the skinnies is in the washing so...
Gosh. I'm doing it again. But maybe, just maybe, my indecisiveness makes me unique :) !
Or typical...actually (-_-)
Urgh.
I think I'll just wear the beige shorts [walks out the door towards the car].
