Keeping willpower low and modifying your environment are related and extremely important. It’s often easier to prevent future you from doing something than it is to make present you do something. It’s really quite easy for me to not buy fruit or candy at the grocery store, but it’s much harder not to eat them if they’re mine and in the house. It’s easy to order food in a restaurant that fits what you can eat, it’s a lot harder to not eat part of what’s on the plate. Telling someone you’re going to be somewhere (EG, a martial arts class or a meetup or something) is really easy(for me), and makes the decision at the moment as to whether you should go a lot easier.
Keeping willpower low and modifying your environment are related and extremely important. It’s often easier to prevent future you from doing something than it is to make present you do something. It’s really quite easy for me to not buy fruit or candy at the grocery store, but it’s much harder not to eat them if they’re mine and in the house. It’s easy to order food in a restaurant that fits what you can eat, it’s a lot harder to not eat part of what’s on the plate. Telling someone you’re going to be somewhere (EG, a martial arts class or a meetup or something) is really easy(for me), and makes the decision at the moment as to whether you should go a lot easier.