Making it physically difficult or impossible to do the things you don’t want to do is definitely a good idea; I deleted a number of apps from my phone, including all the games and social media, for exactly that reason, and I smile every time I notice I would have opened one but didn’t because it wasn’t there.
My experience is hard, clear rules, once you get used to following them, rapidly require less willpower, especially as I engineer around those rules. Not buying things was hard the first few weeks, but after that I started figuring out what I needed to buy in advance, etc etc.
Making it physically difficult or impossible to do the things you don’t want to do is definitely a good idea; I deleted a number of apps from my phone, including all the games and social media, for exactly that reason, and I smile every time I notice I would have opened one but didn’t because it wasn’t there.
My experience is hard, clear rules, once you get used to following them, rapidly require less willpower, especially as I engineer around those rules. Not buying things was hard the first few weeks, but after that I started figuring out what I needed to buy in advance, etc etc.