Embrace some friction. Modern culture is looking for every possible way to decrease it. Modern ways to avoid friction? Scroll on your phone rather than sit in boredom. Doordash your meals. Place an online order. Check your email constantly from your phone so you can respond within .05 seconds.
Some of them are helpful ways to save time. But at what cost? At the cost of getting sucked into your phone and spending hours on it? Check your screen time settings – how many hours on average are you spending on your phone each week? Is that the life you want? If not, change it. Embrace some friction. Take your browser off of your phone, take your email off, call in orders or place them from your computer.
The things that make your life easier may not be making it better. I’m embracing more friction and loving it. How about you?
BUILT TO LEAD 
Rachel, thank you for the call to embrace some friction rather than take the easy road (easy now, harder later). Certainly not normal in modern society as you point out. This morning I’m embarking on Exodus 90 (90 days practicing mild forms of asceticism leading up to Easter) with a group of guys from my daughter’s school. Did it last year with modest rigor, but not wholeheartedly. This year I’m all in to become a more present husband and father, more devout believer, and better leader at work. I believe in living one’s vocation in life to the fullest; I’m working to close those pesky integrity gaps that I allow to get in the way.