Here’s an interesting idea. Stop having more faith in your future self than you have in your present self.
- I’ll just eat this candy bar now, but then I’ll eat no more desserts this week.
- I don’t feel like working out. I’ll go to the gym tomorrow.
- I’ll just read articles today, and I’ll get down to the real work tomorrow.
Stop believing that you’ll magically be a stronger person in the future. The evidence is in: however you are behaving now is how you will go on behaving. You have to BECOME a stronger person. Start now.
Ask yourself: what I am about to do, am I willing to live the rest of my life like this? Do I want the consequences of eating dessert after lunch every day, of always skipping the work-out, of alway goofing off? Decide how you want to live your life, and live that way RIGHT NOW. Your future self is saying: “You first.”
source: Kelly McGonigal via Daniel Pink: How to Make a New-Year’s Non-Resolution. (thanks Suzy :))
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