Don’t let yourself say “I should do X”. Either do it or don’t.
That would work nice if I was so devoid of dynamic inconsistency that “I don’t feel like getting out of bed” would reliably entail “I won’t regret it if I stay in bed”; but as it stands, I sometimes have to tell myself “I should get out of bed” in order to do stuff I don’t feel like doing but I know I would regret not doing.
That would work nice if I was so devoid of dynamic inconsistency that “I don’t feel like getting out of bed” would reliably entail “I won’t regret it if I stay in bed”; but as it stands, I sometimes have to tell myself “I should get out of bed” in order to do stuff I don’t feel like doing but I know I would regret not doing.
This John Holt quote is about exactly this.