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Opportunity Cost

Every choice is also a choice not to do everything else.

Saying yes to a meeting, a project, or a habit is simultaneously saying no to everything else you could have done with that time. The real price of a decision is what you gave up to make it — and this cost is invisible if you don't name it.

Try this

Before committing to the next significant demand on your time, explicitly name what you're trading away. Then decide.

Ask yourself

What did you implicitly say no to today by saying yes to what you did?

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