![]() To make huge progress with your health, productivity, or whatever else you want to get better at, you need to do one more thing. When you don’t have to choose whether or not to do something, you keep your willpower muscle fresh and can more easily avoid the “bad” behavior.īut it doesn’t stop with simply removing temptation. Or just delete email or Facebook off your phone altogether. If your constant “connectedness” is bothering you, consider canceling your Facebook or email alerts that let you know when you have a new message.If you’re trying to eat healthier, don’t buy junk food or keep it in the house.How do you remove temptation? A couple of ideas: But it gets a little harder to resist temptation at 8PM when you get home from work and see a bag of salt-and-vinegar potato chips in your cupboard.īut by strategically removing temptation, you’ll keep your willpower muscles fresh. In other words, it’s a lot easier to avoid eating junk food in the morning when your willpower is fresh and functioning. So just like your biceps will eventually give out after too many dumbbell curls, your “willpower muscle” will give out after making too many decisions. What happens when you work your muscles hard? They get tired and less effective. Think of self-control and willpower - the ability to restrain your own impulses - as muscles. Create “action triggers” that set you up for success. That’s why here at S2B, we always encourage guys who want to get better - at eating healthy food, working out, being productive, and more - to do two things:Ģ. We say we’re gonna check email or Facebook only twice per day…but we tempt ourselves by keeping an alert that pops up on our phone every time we get a new message.We say we’re gonna make it to the gym 3 days per week…but we forget our workout clothes or pick a gym that’s a pain in the ass to get to.We say we’re not gonna eat “junk food”…but then we tempt ourselves by keeping chips, frozen pizzas, and Oreos in the house.Moments of “weakness” where we tell ourselves we’re gonna do X…and we end up doing Y anyway.Ī lot of this has to do with temptation and self-sabotage: We all have moments of self-control blips like this, of course. (And most of the time, the cinnamon rolls win.) When they’re right in front of me, I have to use all my willpower and self control to not eat them. ![]() It may sound ridiculous, but the guilt I felt at not being able to control myself outweighed my gut’s unhappy reaction to so much sugar, salt, and fat.Īnd it made me think about why I don’t have cinnamon rolls sitting on my counter: They’re just way too tempting. The last time we went to visit, it was a beautiful plate full of gooey homemade cinnamon rolls. You see, they always have a plate of cookies or candy or something delicious sitting on the kitchen counter. I’m reminded of this every time I visit my girlfriend’s parent’s house. ![]() ![]() I have a confession: I suck at self-control. ![]()
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