I am not
going to talk about how to use your willpower points well. Instead I am going
to talk about how to waste it. There are two main things:
1-
Use it all up in the morning
Sleeping at 5am when you have to wake up at 7am,
see how much points will be consumed
2-
And the main topic here:
Use it all on things that you
can prevent
You can easily alter the environment around you
to make it conducive to your behavioral change. The structure of your
environment plays a huge role in your behavior
If you want to have\avoid a specific behavior in
you… changing the things around you will just save you the effort from
resisting this behavioral modifications and keep forcing them again using the
precious willpower points
Some environmental factors:
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Foods, drinks
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Placed you visit
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People you know
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Paths-ways you take
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Certain equipment
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Staying places
For example, I think the stupidest thing to do in
life is to keep temptations around you while you are trying to avoid them:
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Keep a box of donuts within
the reach of your arm while you are on diet
-
Keep hanging out in bars and
keeping small bottles of alcohol everywhere when you are trying to stop being
alcoholic
And the
stupidest fake claim I have ever heard of so far is by doing that we are
testing our willpowers. NOOOO STUPID; you are WEAKENING it nothing else
So, know that
environment is an extremely strong force. It has the ability to eat all your
goals and plans for breakfast
Know that you
can save a lot of your willpower to use it later on the real important stuff
that really matter instead of wasting it trying to keep avoiding temptations
around you all the day long
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