Think Before You Click
Think Before You Click
A SIMPLE MINDSET TO AVOID WASTING YOUR VALUABLE TIME
Clicking links: One of the biggest ‘rabbit holes’
- Let’s do the math: 20 links a day x 5 minutes a link = 100 minutes a day x 365 days a year = 36,500 minutes a year, or 76 8-hour days
Each click is an investment
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You ‘pay’ something in the form of your time and attention. What’s the value of what you are getting in return?
- Pain/misery
- Drama
- Despair
- Nonsense
What effect does this have on you?
- Often stirs up negative emotions and/or negative conversations, which drain your ability to think, feel, and create positive things of value.
- Is it worth it to you?!?
Think before you click
- Instead of losing and wasting a lot of your valuable time due to clicking links impulsively, have a simple strategy (see below) to weed out the nonsense and negativity
But don’t you need to be informed?
Being informed and being inundated are two different things!
Less clicks = more awesomeness
- With a strategy to minimize the time you click on low-value links, imagine the amount of time that becomes available to you
- What if you were able to recapture 1/2 of what we started with, or 38 days, for taking high-value action – you could do something amazing with an extra chunk of time that size!
CHALLENGES/NEXT ACTIONS
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For the next 3-7 days (at least), when you get the urge to click a link, stop and ask yourself
- Does it directly impact my life?
- Is it positive?
- Does it add value to my life?
- Am I clicking just to avoid doing something else?