**If you aren't choosing your own trade-offs, they will be chosen for you.**
Because resources are limited ([[Anything, but Not Everything]]), everything is a trade-off. You should be taking a hypervigilant role in choosing the trade-offs you're making for yourself. If you don't, they will be chosen for you.
# Examples
- If you don't fight for your nights and weekends, you may lose them to "extra tasks" at work.
- If you don't [[budget]] smartly, you're money will be out before you've covered your wants.
- I'm choosing to _not_ use some plugins that would make these notes a little easier to write on account of my commitment [[Only Use Obsidian Plug-ins That Retain Portability]]
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## Source
- [[Essentialism]]
## Related
- [[“No” = choice]]
- [[Anything, but Not Everything]]