I'm in charge of taking GHB, my 3yr old son, to school every Thursday morning. On a good day it's a race against time for me to get showered & dressed, get him fed, bathed and dressed and for us to get out the door on time. Last Thursday, I overslept. I'm not sure what happened but it happened. All the stuff listed above still had to get done but it had to be done in half the time.
The solution to this problem? I started taking away options. I usually let him choose things like what he wants to eat for breakfast and what he wants to wear to school. On this particular morning it was here's your breakfast and this is what you're wearing.
See when he's given options it can add precious minutes to tasks that shouldn't take very long. (To be clear everything with a 3 year old takes longer than it should.) For him options lead questions and distractions.
This is isn't the case for just him. It happens to all of us. We tend to think of having options as a good thing but they can be a hinderance. Particularly when we're presented with too many options.
Like I said options lead to questions, it doesn't matter if you're 3yr old or 30. No one wants to pick the wrong thing. So when you have a bunch of options, now you've got to investigate each one to see which one is the best.
The thing is there usually isn't that much difference between options, especially once you get beyond three or four choices. Most of the time it's more beneficial to limit your options to 2 or 3. Then pick one of those 3 as quickly as possible.
Don't spend too much time trying to figure out the best one. Any benefit of finding the best choice will usually be negated by the time loss trying to make the perfect choice.
This goes for all the choices you have to make, whether it's wardrobe choices like GHB or healthy lifestyle choices like what to eat or what exercise to do.
