Mastering Your Mental Energy: 3 Practical Tips for Enhanced Decision-Making

I was a terrible leader for the first 8.5 years of my career.

Do you know how it feels to be stuck in a rut, making decisions that seem more like shots in the dark than strategic moves? That was me. In small business leadership, every decision counts, but when your mental energy is as scattered as a jigsaw puzzle, good luck putting together a clear picture.

For me, it all started as a teenager.

You know the feeling when you’re craving something so bad that you’d trade your grandmother’s secret recipe for it. That was me with Doritos. I wasn’t just eating them; I was inhaling them like oxygen. Picture me, a 250-pound Offensive Lineman with a Doritos bag: that was my version of a high-performance fuel tank.

Back then, my nutritional philosophy was, “If it makes me bigger, it’s on the menu.”

This wasn’t rocket science (more like a hungry hippo strategy). I thought chips were the stairway to strength heaven. Or, that’s what my mouth desires were telling me. Little did I know, they were more like a greasy slide into junk-food junky land.

It made me fat, slow, and constantly tired. But for whatever reason, with those teen hormones, I was living my football dream.