Too much to do, or too much to choose?

Great restaurants have the shortest menus: discuss.

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🤯 Option Paralysis - do you just need a schedule?

This may be an entirely unfounded generalisation, but my brief encounters with the likes of Gordon Ramsey’s ‘Kitchen Nightmares’ typically seem to hinge on the premise that a restaurant owner has -over time- built up a menu that stretches over sections upon sections, items upon items, over sprawling, scrambled, laminated A3 sheets.

Gordon turns up, blusters around the place making disbelieving comments and curses, then to cut the menu down to one starter, three mains, and a pudding.

This week, I found myself, if not in the Gordon role, at least in the restaurant owner role, reflecting on the conundrum independently.

📝 My task list, while organised into a ‘holding tank’ (yet to be assigned/scheduled items), ‘projects’ (for longer term items), and ‘tasks’ (less than 5 minute items/do now items), was a metaphorical mountain, and one that left me reverting to my standard reflex of ‘reorganise it all’. It’s the same menu, just in a different order. But at least now I’ve convinced myself that by being able to ‘see it' more clearly’, I’m better able to start.

Whatever ‘start’ is.

On whatever ‘start’ is.

💉 Option paralysis is a much written about topic: ‘a situation where the sheer number of choices available leads to a feeling of being overwhelmed and unable to make a decision’ (Wikipedia).

❓ So what's the solution - what's YOUR solution: just start something/anything; a schedule; time-blocking; doesn't matter you're insignificant anyway...or a combination of all of the above at some-point?

🤔 I'm curious. Not in an angry Gordon Ramsey way though.

Let me know.