Stop making excuses!

ColdEiric · 2016-04-18T21:25:13+00:00

If you're choosing your major, when you choose to study engineering, when you say Yes to engineering, you say no to gender studies, medicine, and everything else. In this case, everything else is your opportunity cost. When you say yes to Gender studies, you say No to every other major. In this case, every other major other than gender is your opportunity cost.

If you're choosing between staying in your small town or going to the strange, odd university town, then you have to say no to the other option. That's your opportunity cost.

If you're choosing between This Guy A and that Guy B, your opportunity cost is the guy you choose to not date.

If you're choosing between shoes, well, considering how many shoes you own, and how few feet you have, which shoes are you unable to wear today? Which pairs of yours didn't you wear today? It's only one pair a day, isn't it?

If you're choosing between RPW and Feminism, you have to say no to the latter, if you decide to choose the former. Which one is worth sacrificing for the sake of gaining the other? The Red Pill or the blue pill?

If you choose to wait, you choose to not do it today. Is waiting worth it? Where do you get most? In waiting or doing it today?

Is it worth it to pay full price today? Or is it cheaper to pay it slowly with a bit of debt? At 'the end of the day', what costs more?

Is it worth it to open one's mouth to talk and to have one's opinions heard? Or is it better if one is silent?

If you choose to marry a guy, you choose to not be single anymore. You also choose to not be available to other guys. Assuming cheating is not an option to you.

The other option, or other options, are your opportunity cost.

But back to the original question.

"Can't go to the gym, have to cook dinner for SO"

What do you choose to not do, when you choose to stay at home? What do you choose to not do, when you decide to cook dinner for SO? What's the cost of being lazy? What's the 'cost' of cooking dinner to SO, and what's the gain?

Is it worth the cost, when you measure what you can't choose anymore, when you've decided to go to the gym? Is gym worth it, when you choose to not drink at parties/bars, or whatever you don't do, whatever you're unable to do when you're at the gym? What's the profit from going to the gym?

Is cooking dinner for SO worth it, when you choose to make him happy, when you say 'No' to the other options?

What's your opportunity cost?

maya_elena · 2016-04-18T23:44:44+00:00

That's a hard question. I am a very much a procrastinator, and feel like a lot of things I do are done on auto-pilot and at the last minute. I'm working on trying to improve that, but it's not an easy thing to fix.

I find that outside demands - true outside demands, not fake self-set deadlines - and a sense of obligation to people I love or respect help motivate me. When I shared an apartment with housemates, I kept the common areas scrupulously clean, even if my own room was terrible. When I expect guests, most of my house (except maybe our bedroom) turns eerily clean (as much as is possible in our dust trap of an apartment). When I note to myself that I haven't exercised in too long a time, the little twinge of guilt makes me go for a run or to the gym. And so it goes.

I feel like many of us will never have that well-oiled, efficient, organized life that we see in one or another of our usually female friends ("she's a doctor, swing dance teacher, has three kids, and a spectacular cook, and only 29!" type people). So you settle for the small victories of staying afloat, loving your SO, keeping up with friends and family, doing something fun sometimes and enjoying the small pleasures of daily life that all of these things bring.

That's my $0.02.

Title	Stop making excuses!
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Upvotes	21
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Date	April 18, 2016 8:44 PM UTC (10 years ago)
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