Do you believe that life is a series of decisions?
I know that sounds a little too philosophical for a small, random blog. But it's easy to believe so, isn't it?
Everyday we make a lot of small and big decisions. What shirt to wear, which route to work to take, what to eat... and most relevant to this blog, even what/when/how we spend our money.
If you really think about all the decisions you have to make during the day, you might be exhausted just from cataloging them. But the really interesting thing is that when you make those decisions, you aren't thinking at all.
To be more specific, the actions you decide to take are based on habits and not conscious decisions at all. Studies show that around 40% of the things we do, we do simply because we got used to doing them.
Habits are powerful. We could be living half our lives on autopilot. Worse, we could be doing so without really deciding that the "flight plan" is really what we want.
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