It takes only minutes every day to scan your lawn for any weeds, removing any that have cropped up.

If you don’t…

Those minutes turn into “later this week.”

Later this week turns into “I’ll take care of it on the weekend.”

Taking care of it on the weekend turns into “I should get to it this month.”

Each time a decision is made to do it later, the time commitment becomes longer and excuses become easier. It’s harder to find the motivation to block out hours of time to get the job done when minutes was all it took in the first place.

Eventually, the lawn is infested with weeds and no longer controllable unless drastic measures are taken.

It wasn’t the action of a single day that caused the outcome, but the compound effect of repeatedly neglecting one.