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With every moment, you have a choice.
That choice is what you do with the only thing you can control — your actions.
Every action can be boiled down to its position on a spectrum.
That spectrum is how much it moves you toward or away from your goals.
The actions that move you away from your goals, regardless of what your goal is, are actions that take 0 effort (hence why they produce 0 results).
And everything has a price, a cost, a trade off. So if something takes 0 effort, don’t be ignorant to the consequences that come down the line.
Sure, scrolling your phone seems innocent and it takes 0 effort, but down the line, it’ll run your attention span and ability to do focused work.
The best (or worst) part about these 0 effort actions that move you away from your goals is that you know you shouldn’t be doing them.
You know there’s something you could be doing that would make you productive and useful.
