Sunday Story…The Snooze Button

Is not your friend. It is a trap, a flawed strategy to attempt to re-use time. In other words you have decided to decide later which is a decision in and of itself. And that decision cost you time and energy only to decide later.

Your alarm has a snooze button. Rather than arise you hit the button, thus putting off the inevitable…after all you are going to get up sooner or later. Your decision to decide later has consequences. Maybe you will oversleep and be late, maybe you will have to skip your shower or your breakfast. That decision creates a cascade of other choices that may no longer be available because of that first, seemingly minor decision, to hit the snooze.

It isn’t as if you need more information…you need to get out of bed. Sometimes putting off the decision makes sense when you need or are going to get more data to help with that decision.

Decide once and move on. Open the email, respond, and discard…let it go from your consciousness. Otherwise it ends up on an ever-growing pile of decisions you decided to make later.

Later is now. In or out, yes or no, move on…it is a habit. Snooze is not your friend. Jettison it!

John Mariotti
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