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7 Questions to Ask Yourself Before Committing to Anything

Eloisa Amezcua
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6 min readNov 18, 2019

Illustration: Caitlin Keegan

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Eloisa Amezcua
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Written by Eloisa Amezcua

Eloisa Amezcua is a poet from Arizona. She is the author of Fighting Is Like a Wife (Coffee House Press, 2022) and lives in Brooklyn, NY.

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Thanks for this thoughtful masterpiece Eloisa!
The question of “opportunity costs” is so important when deciding on commitments. As a reminder, I have a piece of paper hanging on my wall with the “big five things” I want to achieve while living.
This helps me evaluating, what you described! :-)

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Excellent suggestions especially for short-term commentments.
For long term commitments I would add the collary to Murphy's Law 'It is much easier to get into something than it is to get out.' I learned this one the hard way...more than once.

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This is a fresh perspective, quite a framework, thanks for sharing it☺!

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