Know the Costs of Your Choices: 01-20-2026

1. If we choose the best way, the middle way, the worst way, or something in between the best and the middle or the worst and the middle (5TP), all have unavoidable prices in energy, stress, time, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
2. Learning a trade or just taking what comes your way has costs, including career, education, experience, legacy, retirement, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
3. Living as an honest citizen or a criminal has costs, including limitations on association, career, family, legacy, personal freedom, retirement, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
4. Choosing to work hard or do the minimum has costs, including those in association, career, contribution, culture, honesty, integrity, legacy, productivity, society, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.
5. Remaining a virgin or sleeping around before marriage has costs, including those related to attachment, bonding, health and safety, honesty, innocence, integrity, purity, simplicity, virtue, wholeness, and constrained or delayed future outcomes.