Either you choose or someone else chooses for you

Sun Jun 09, 2019 · 213 words

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Read part 1 and part 2 of this series.

Truth #3: Either you choose or someone else chooses for you

Truth #1 says we choose where we invest our time. Truth #2 says we can find the time.

Truth #3 says if we don’t choose where to invest our time, someone or something else will do it for us.

Imagine you have 2-3 hours at the end of the day after everything you want to take care of is done. What happens?

Maybe you watch TV? Maybe you surf the Internet? Maybe you get on Facebook. Or perhaps you spend time with your family or spouse.

This might be exactly what you’re looking to do, but who made the choice? Did you make the choice, or did it just happen?

For me, 2-3 hours at the end of the day usually meant I was randomly browsing the Internet. I’d bounce from click-baity articles to Youtube videos to my Facebook feed to Twitter and then to Google News and the list goes on.

I didn’t really think about what I’d do with those 2-3 hours.

By not choosing what I was doing in those 2-3 hours, I was making the choice to let those 2-3 hours happen by default. Whatever happens will just happen.