It’s been six years(!) since I wrote Make the Healthy Choice the Easy Choice, advice to my grandson from one of his college teachers. It’s worth the read.

Daily blogger Seth Godin echoes that message – reminders are good! – in Grab and Go, published June 10. He takes it one step farther: make the good choices easy and the bad choices hard. Here’s Seth’s blog in its entirety:

Every retailer knows that the items that sell the best are at eye level or at the cash register.

Some people are hungry, rushed, distracted and lazy. If you want to reach them (us), you need to make it convenient.

The lesson is simple: We can market to ourselves the same way others market to us.

Put the good habits in a place where they’re easy to find and engage with. And put the other stuff on a top shelf in the back of the room.

What would happen if you had your most noxious social media apps on a device you needed to go far out of your way to interact with?

It’s not as difficult as it sounds.

Lock up your candy. – Seth Godin, June 10, 2025

I need to work on this. My time with God journal and Bible are on my computer…as is everything else! All equally accessible. The system is not conducive for undistracted time with God. I’ll let you know how I solve this problem – I’m not there yet!

Keep your heart with all vigilance, for from it flow the springs of life…Let your eyes look directly forward, and your gaze be straight before you. Ponder the path of your feet; then all your ways will be sure. Do not swerve to the right or to the left; turn your foot away from evil. (Proverbs 4.23, 25 – 27, ESV)