**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]] **** ## Source - [[Essentialism]] ## Related - [[“No” = choice]] - [[Anything, but Not Everything]]