The “Implementation Intention”
And finally, we can rely less on our feelings and more on our routines. By deciding in advance how we want to spend our time, according to our values and our schedule, we pave a clear path for our future actions. Instead of depending on motivation, we can do what we said we would by glancing at our calendar.
A distractible person waits for motivation, then doesn’t understand why they fail to accomplish their goals day after day after day. An indistractable person knows why they got distracted and takes steps today to avoid getting distracted by the same thing tomorrow.
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It turns out we probably don’t have “motivation issues”, because, biologically, we’re rarely unmotivated. In fact, we’re almost always and very much motivated, just unproductively or unhealthily so.
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