In today's Career Pulse, gain insight into how:

• AI-driven decision fatigue can quietly drain your team’s engagement and judgment, and how leaders can design workflows to protect human thinking.

• Tracking your return on energy instead of just time or effort can unlock sustainable success and greater performance.

• Navigating the “boundary hangover” can help you set limits with confidence while preserving your self-respect and relationships.

These articles are penned by members of Forbes Coaches Council, leading business, career, and professional coaches shaping the future of this field.

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Decision Fatigue: The AI Challenge You Can't Ignore

AI is revolutionizing workplaces, but its rapid adoption brings an unexpected challenge: decision fatigue. While AI offers efficiency by automating tasks, it can overload people with micro-decisions, offload critical thinking, and disconnect them from meaningful work.

Here’s how to combat AI-driven decision fatigue:

🧠 Protect Core Thinking Skills: Encourage employees to generate ideas before using AI. Let AI refine, not replace, human thought to prevent cognitive disengagement.

🔗 Clearly Divide Tasks: Define what AI handles (data extraction, automation) versus what humans own (relationships, judgment, creativity).

✅ Maintain Oversight: Treat AI outputs as tools, not truths. Validate results, provide feedback, and foster a culture of experimentation and trust.

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Return on Energy: Your Secret to Sustainable Success

Success isn’t just about working harder; it’s about managing your energy. Overachievers often push themselves into exhaustion, mistaking effort for progress. This article introduces “return on energy” as a transformative metric for tracking, helping high performers shift from overfunctioning to thriving.

Here’s how to align your energy for high-quality success:

🔋 Audit Your Energy: Identify what energizes or drains you in work and relationships. Regularly ask yourself if your actions reflect your values or others' expectations.

💡 Adopt Recharge Rituals: Build habits that restore clarity and creativity, like breaks or mindfulness practices. Alternating focus and recovery attracts better results.

🎯 Prioritize Alignment: Stop saying “yes” out of fear or obligation. Align your actions with what fuels you for sustainable motivation and impact.

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Boundary Hangovers: Why Setting Limits Feels So Hard

Setting a boundary may feel empowering in the moment, but the discomfort that follows—dubbed the “boundary hangover”—can leave you second-guessing yourself. Guilt, overthinking, and worry creep in, even though you set the boundary for a good reason.

Here’s how to manage the spiral with self-compassion:

🔄 Reframe the Discomfort: Remind yourself, “This feels hard because it’s new, not because it’s wrong.”

🤐 Embrace Silence: Resist the urge to over-explain or justify your boundary.

🤝 Let Go of Control: Their reaction is theirs to process; it’s not your responsibility.

🧘 Ground Yourself: Small acts, like a walk or a cup of tea, can help you recalibrate.

💪 Hold Steady: Boundary hangovers usually pass quickly, leaving behind a stronger sense of self-respect.

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