My husband and I were driving to the grocery store the other day when it started to rain. I went to turn on the wipers and had to choose what speed I wanted them to operate from 7 different settings. I just wanted my windshield clean and this was one too many decisions for me that day. I turned the knob to whatever setting and started complaining loudly about missing the day when it was just on or off. My husband sat there chuckling at me as I continued to grouch about how things have gotten more complicated in an effort to make life easier.

I feel inundated with decisions in our daily life. What’s for breakfast, lunch, dinner? What do you want to wear today? What’s on our agenda, what are we doing today? Is the house too hot/cold? When should I pay that bill? Is it time to order refills on our meds? Do I have time to do the laundry or run the dishwasher? And a few time sensitive questions, do we need to change our Medicare program? When should I winterproof the house? What are we going to do for the holidays? Then I get hit with whether I want the wipers to run intermittently, slow, or fast, and I just don’t have any patience left to deal with it.

I am learning to walk away from some of these decisions. My husband wears whatever comes out of the closet first, no thought put into it. As to what to eat, I let him make the choice whenever possible and then fall back on easy solutions like leftovers from dinner. Some decisions I simply put off until I have time. There are a lot of choices in the world today, I think my best decision is going to be to simplify as many of them as possible, like the wipers, so I have the energy to focus on the really important ones.