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Say Goodbye to Decision Fatigue with a Simple Yes No Button

Have you ever stood in front of your closet for 15 minutes—late for work already—completely unable to decide what to wear? Or scrolled through Netflix for so long that you eventually give up and just go to bed? Or maybe you've found yourself staring at a restaurant menu, overwhelmed by choices, while your server returns for the third time asking if you're ready to order?

Yeah. Me too.

Like, all the time.

The thing is, I never used to be this way. When did making simple decisions become so... exhausting? When did choosing between tacos and pizza start feeling like solving complex mathematical equations?

The Breaking Point

For me, it happened on a Tuesday. Not a particularly special Tuesday—just an ordinary one where I found myself sitting in my car in the grocery store parking lot, genuinely stressed about whether I should buy ingredients to cook dinner or just grab takeout on the way home.

I'd been sitting there for twelve minutes. TWELVE. Minutes. Of my actual life. Stressing about dinner.

And that's when I realized something was really wrong. Not with the choice itself—both options were perfectly fine—but with my complete inability to just pick one and move on with my day.

Later that night, after I'd eventually gone with takeout (Thai food, if you're curious... though I second-guessed that choice approximately seven times before placing my order), I started researching this phenomenon. Turns out, there's a name for it: decision fatigue.

And apparently, I had a severe case.

What Even Is Decision Fatigue?

Decision fatigue is basically what happens when your brain gets tired from making too many choices. Each decision—even tiny ones—takes mental energy. And unlike our phones, we can't just plug ourselves in for a quick recharge when our mental battery runs low.

The average adult makes around 35,000 decisions EVERY. SINGLE. DAY.

No wonder we're all exhausted.

The worst part? The more decisions you make, the worse you get at making them. Your willpower depletes. Your judgment becomes impaired. You start making impulsive choices or—like me in the grocery store parking lot—you freeze up completely.

Knowing this made me feel slightly better (at least I'm not just hopelessly indecisive!), but it didn't solve my problem.

The Solution I Stumbled Upon

I'd love to tell you I discovered some profound philosophical approach to decision-making—something involving meditation and journaling and deep self-reflection.

But nope. What actually helped me was way simpler, and honestly, kind of silly at first glance.

I was complaining about my indecisiveness to a coworker when she laughed and said, "Oh, I don't have time for that. I just use a yes no button for all that small stuff."

A what now?

"It's like a digital coin flip," she explained. "You ask it a question, it gives you a yes or no. Done. Decision made. Move on with your life."

I must have looked skeptical because she added, "Don't knock it till you try it. It's surprisingly liberating."

That night, I looked it up and found this simple website called the Yes or No Button. It was exactly what my coworker had described—a place to type in your question and get a random yes or no answer.

My first reaction was: This is ridiculous.

My second reaction was: ...but what if it works?

The First Test

The next morning, I was once again standing in front of my closet, paralyzed by the earth-shattering choice between the gray sweater and the blue one. Both were comfortable. Both were appropriate for work. Both were... fine.

So I pulled out my phone, went to the Yes or No generator, and typed: "Should I wear the blue sweater today?"

I pressed the button.

"NO," said the popup, complete with a voice that actually said "no" out loud, which startled me enough that I almost dropped my phone.

Gray sweater it is, then!

And just like that, I was dressed and out the door in record time.

Was it silly? Yeah, probably. But it was also... effective?

The Bigger Experiment

Encouraged by my sweater success, I decided to try using the yes no button for a week straight—but only for those small, low-impact decisions that typically sent me spiraling.

Should I have coffee or tea? Button says coffee.

Should I go for a walk now or after lunch? Button says now.

Should I watch that new show everyone's talking about? Button says yes.

Should I pick up those extra project hours at work? Button says no.

Wait. That last one's not exactly a small decision.

But here's where things got interesting. When the button said no to those extra hours, I felt... relieved. Really relieved. And that told me something important: I didn't actually want those hours, even though I'd been stressing about whether I "should" take them.

Huh.

What Was Actually Happening

After a few days of button-assisted decision making, I had a realization. The button wasn't actually making decisions for me. What it was doing was:

Breaking the overthinking cycle. Instead of endlessly weighing pros and cons, I had a clear stopping point.
Making my preferences clearer. My emotional reaction to the button's answer often revealed what I truly wanted (like my relief about those work hours).
Removing the weight of responsibility. There's something freeing about occasionally saying, "Well, the button decided!" It's like having a scapegoat for your choices.
Teaching me to be decisive. Gradually, I found myself making quick decisions without the button, because I'd broken the habit of overthinking everything.

It wasn't about blindly following random yes/no answers. It was about interrupting the exhausting cycle of analysis paralysis that had somehow become my default mode of operating.

The Surprising Psychological Effects

What surprised me most wasn't that the Yes or No Button helped with small decisions—it was how those small victories changed my overall mental state.

When you're not constantly depleting your mental energy on trivial choices, you have more bandwidth for important things. I found myself more present in conversations, more creative at work, and generally less stressed.

It's like mental decluttering. By offloading those tiny decisions that don't really matter in the grand scheme of things, I cleared space for what actually does matter.

Setting Boundaries

Now, I'm not suggesting we all start using random generators to make major life decisions. Should I quit my job? Should I end my relationship? Should I move across the country?

Yeah, maybe don't leave those to chance.

But for the endless stream of inconsequential choices that somehow still manage to drain our mental batteries? The yes no button has been a surprisingly effective tool.

I've set some personal guidelines for when to use it:

When both options are basically fine
When I've been waffling for more than a minute
When I catch myself researching something trivial obsessively
When the stakes are genuinely low

The Freedom of Letting Go

There's something deeply freeing about occasionally surrendering control of minor decisions. In a culture that glorifies optimization—where we're supposed to make the absolute BEST choice in every situation—it's refreshing to sometimes just... not.

Sometimes good enough is, well, good enough.

The blue sweater and the gray sweater are both fine. The Thai food and the home-cooked meal are both fine. The documentary and the comedy are both fine.

Not every choice needs to be optimized. Not every decision deserves your precious mental energy.

A Different Kind of Self-Care

We talk a lot about self-care these days—bubble baths and face masks and digital detoxes. But maybe one of the best forms of self-care is learning to make decisions more efficiently. Learning to recognize which choices deserve our full attention and which ones we can delegate—even if we're delegating them to a random Yes or No generator.

It's about treating your mental energy as the finite, valuable resource that it is.

My New Relationship with Decisions

These days, I still use the button sometimes. Maybe a couple of times a week, when I catch myself slipping back into overthinking mode. But more often, I find I don't need it anymore.

I've internalized its most important lesson: most small decisions don't need to be perfect; they just need to be made.

So I make them. Quickly, confidently, and without the drama that used to accompany choosing a lunch spot or picking a movie.

And on those occasions when I do feel that familiar spiraling sensation—when I've been staring at my phone for ten minutes, unable to decide whether to call or text a friend—I know my trusty yes no button is there to break the cycle.

Sometimes the simplest tools are the most powerful. And sometimes the best way to make a decision is to just make it—even if you need a little help getting there.

How do you deal with decision fatigue? Have you ever tried using a random decision generator? I'd love to hear your experiences in the comments!

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