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Discipline is a system
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Discipline is a system
You do not need more willpower. You need fewer decisions.
- Lay out tomorrow tonight
- Make the default the right thing
- Shrink the first step until it is embarrassing
Practice: remove one daily decision this week.
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Discipline is a system
Motivation is weather; discipline is architecture. Aisha on designing the day so the right thing is also the easy thing.
Discipline is a system
You do not need more willpower. You need fewer decisions.
- Lay out tomorrow tonight
- Make the default the right thing
- Shrink the first step until it is embarrassing
Practice: remove one daily decision this week.
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