zen habits: Unautomate Your Money |
Posted: 19 Sep 2011 02:33 PM PDT Editor’s Note: This is a guest post from Baker of Man Vs. Debt.Every time we automate a process in our lives, we trade a piece of consciousness away for a piece of convenience. This can be fantastic, as long as we ensure that we automate positive, sustainable habits. The problem with automation comes when we try to apply it to areas in our lives that need more consciousness. We run into trouble when we try to solve a problem by automating it. Automation itself doesn't fix anything. In fact, automating a undesirable process only buries the problem even further.
We cannot solve problems by trading away consciousness. We need to reverse this trend. We need unautomation. Unautomation is the act of deliberately trading back pieces of convenience for increased consciousness in return. In our financial lives, there are plenty of examples were we can benefit from unautomation:
These examples are only a handful of hundreds of money instances where we could benefit from a path of less convenience and more consciousness. The next time you look to change a set of behaviors in your life, don’t turn to automation. Start with unautomation. Registration is now open for You Vs Debt, Baker’s 6-week online class with daily videos, challenges, and accountability forums to empower your battle against debt. |
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