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Hello. I’m Yasui, the president of a one-person company mainly engaged in inspections of high-pressure gas facilities.
Yesterday was our year-end party.
I talked so much that my throat hurt, managed to properly express my gratitude, and turned it into a step toward the coming year.
It was a really good time. Thank you very much.
“Deciding what not to do is more important than deciding what to do.”
Some of you may have heard this quote before. It is well known as a saying by the late Steve Jobs, the founder of Apple.
I once heard that he decided to wear the same clothes every day in order to drastically reduce unimportant choices.
As long as we are alive, we are constantly making choices and decisions.
Waking up in the morning, choosing which shoes to wear, what clothes to put on, what to eat.
We are making these small decisions all the time, both consciously and unconsciously.
By repeating this process, we accumulate decision fatigue, and our brains become tired.
Jobs, who was in a position to make critical decisions for his company, must have realized this.
He tried to eliminate situations where his energy would be drained by decisions that were not particularly important to him.
Even when we consume information, casually scrolling through our smartphones, we are still using our brains.
It may not feel tiring, but the brain is definitely getting fatigued.
So perhaps it’s worth asking: is this really necessary, or could I live just fine without it?
Why not identify unnecessary things and try removing them once?
Even things we do with good intentions can create extra work.
For example, are you overwhelmed with emails? Are you unconsciously deleting newsletters every day that you never remember signing up for?
What about free catalogs that pile up—don’t they become a hassle to organize? And do you even look at them in the first place?
Just because something is free, we may keep accepting it.
Even if we are paid members and believe we are “gaining information,” is that information truly necessary?
It might be a good idea to take a closer look and evaluate that.
What does becoming a walking encyclopedia or an information junkie actually produce?
If you think about it, you may realize there are other things you could or should be doing instead.
How we use our time matters.
Time is the one resource that is given equally to everyone, and how we allocate it is entirely up to us.
That alone makes it worth thinking carefully about how we use it.
It’s the season for year-end cleaning, and this might be a good opportunity to check and organize the things around you that usually go unnoticed.
Thank you very much for reading to the end!
See you next time!
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