Decision fatigue is a well-researched and documented phenomenon which indicates that constant decision-making leads to deterioration of our ability to make good decisions.
This is a problem many in the personal finance community struggle with on a daily basis. Going overboard with cutting out the simple pleasures in life will make the journey harder than it needs to be.
So how to be really rich like Suze Orman?
Without educating herself on how the risk/return profile of different assets; she handed her money to a broker at Merrill Lynch who invested in options and lost it in a market downturn.
Suze then went on to work for Merrill Lynch and studied to become a stock broker herself. She leveraged her Human Capital and continued to progress in her career becoming a VP of Prudential Securities
Suze then went to leverage her social capital. Published books, appeared on CNBC and Oprah. Became a consummate marketing machine managing her own brand.