Planning

If you don’t have a plan for today, Facebook does. So do Instagram, Netflix, cable television, and online news outlets. They will gladly occupy your day. All of it.

You’ve probably noticed how many websites (Yahoo, for example) now scroll infinitely. As soon as you reach the bottom of the content, more content is loaded automatically, and you can continue scrolling.

Likewise, television and streaming services often pre-load the next episode to overlap the tail end of whatever you’ve just watched.

If we’re not careful — that is, if we don’t have our own plan — we risk giving much of our time and productivity to media services and advertisers.

If we want to, we can always get on that bus where content is served up to us unceasingly. But we can also choose to drive ourselves — to be selective about where we go, what we consume, and when we get back to doing other things ... like following our plan for the day.