I blinked and an hour vanished; Black Friday shopping and hundreds of dollars gone. Is it all because I picked up my phone for “one quick thing”? Is this a 'tax' of having a smartphone, luring us into impulse buys and endless scrolls?
Modern life is complexity, not simplicity. It invites chaos into life.
It’s not just a lack of discipline that’s costing me time and money—it’s my environment. The systems I use set my monkey-brain up for failure and then leave me disappointed when it inevitably caves. Don't be like me.
Instead of hating yourself for being undisciplined today, change one thing in your environment so it naturally steers you toward the life you actually want and makes the right choices the easy ones.
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