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Shine brighter today than the sun at midday. 🌞

PS. You are a stunningly gorgeous person, and we are grateful for you! 

Decision fatigue happens when your brain has made too many choices without enough rest. By the end of the day, or during periods of chronic stress, even simple decisions can feel overwhelming. What to eat, how to respond, what to prioritize… it all becomes “too much.”

This isn’t laziness or lack of discipline. It’s neurological depletion. The brain’s ability to choose wisely declines as cognitive resources are used up. That’s why overwhelm often shows up as procrastination, irritability, or shutting down.

You don’t need more willpower. You need fewer decisions, more rest, and more support.

Signs you’re experiencing decision fatigue:

Tips to help you reduce fatigue and reset:

✅ Action step: Remove one decision today: simplify a choice, follow a routine, ask for input, or decide in advance. Notice how reducing even one mental demand creates more ease.

^{Love, Lola Graham}

Physical confidence is trusting your body and feeling capable inside it. When you move, build strength, improve posture, or notice what your body can do, your brain updates its self-perception: “I am strong. I can handle things.” That sense of capability directly supports mental health.

Research shows that physical activity improves mood, reduces anxiety and depression, and strengthens self-efficacy, which is the belief that you can meet challenges.

Feeling physically steady also feeds emotional stability: you stand taller, breathe more fully, and approach stress with greater resilience.

You don’t have to be “fit” to benefit. Every moment of embodied physical confidence is a message to your nervous system: I am safe, I am capable, I am here.

✅ Action step: Do one small movement today that makes you feel confident in your body and notice how your mind responds.

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^{By: Joshua Graham}

^{A reflective journaling prompt to explore learning, self-awareness, and becoming.}

What is a rule you’ve been unconsciously following that you might be ready to break? Where did it come from and why has it felt so necessary? What opens up in life if you let that rule go?

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With love and care,

Lola & Joshua | The Living Well Team

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