#52: 35,000 Decisions a Day: How to Get More of Them Right with Adrienne Adhami

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What if the 35,000 decisions you make daily could actually align with your deepest values and drive real success? In this episode of World's Greatest Business Thinkers, host Nick Hague sits down with Adrienne Adhami, author of Decisions That Matter, and co-founder of Part Two Agency, to explore how leaders can navigate the thousands of decisions they face every day with greater confidence and clarity. Adrienne shares a practical framework for separating high-stakes decisions from low-stakes ones, reducing decision fatigue, and aligning choices with personal values. The conversation examines the role of joy as a meaningful measure of success, the power of intuition as learned pattern recognition, and why uncertainty should be embraced rather than feared. Listeners will learn actionable strategies for making better decisions, avoiding analysis paralysis, and building a more intentional approach to leadership and life. What You Will Learn: How to distinguish between high-stakes and low-stakes decisions

The Six Rules of Engagement framework for structuring decisions

Why values aren't virtuous abstractions but practical decision filters

The overlooked power of joy as a business metric

How to use the decision-making matrix to score competing options

Why embracing uncertainty and reframing mistakes as data

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About the Guest: Adrienne Adhami is a bestselling author, podcast host, decision-making strategist, and co-founder of Part Two Agency. She has over 15 years of experience working with high-performing entrepreneurs, CEOs, and Olympic athletes across the health, wellness, and fitness industries. Her expertise spans habit formation, goal setting, decision-making, and leadership, developed through roles ranging from fitness trainer to Director of Innovation at a scaling fitness technology startup. She is the author of *The Power Hour* and *Decisions That Matter: How to Make Decisions in a World of Endless Choice*, where she introduces her proprietary six-rules framework for confident decision-making.

Quotes: "The small, low-stakes decisions in personal and professional life, they really, really matter. When I think about it in the business context, you know, the small, mundane decisions around ownership of certain things, around team capacity, around culture, around work, there are so many small, mundane things that, little by little, they really add up. They are what defines the success of the company."

"It's more about uncovering what you already value and then questioning those. If you think about somebody in business, someone a professional leader who you really admire, someone who you aspire to be like, somebody whose work you find impressive and inspiring, what is it about them that you look up to, that you admire? Write the things down."

"There is a direct correlation between health outcomes and stress and things like the inverse of happiness and joy. When we lack those things, we're more likely to suffer from things like chronic illness, heart disease, diabetes, strokes. If the absence of joy can create these outcomes, then joy really is essential; it's not a frivolous thing, it's essential."

"Intuition isn't this woo-woo thing that's just a feeling. It's actually based on pattern recognition in the brain. Our brains take in hundreds and thousands and millions of data points, and we spot patterns and red flags. Your gut feeling is not random; listen to it, pay attention to