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Willpower:
When you’re budgeting your time, don’t give drudgery more than its necessary share.
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Willpower:
All of us, whether or not we’re serious procrastinators, tend to have an optimistic bias toward our own work, so it makes sense to ask others to review our plans.
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Willpower:
In the long run, slovenliness can leave you with less energy – and fewer healthy relationships.
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Willpower:
Self-control will be most effective if you take good basic care of your body, starting with diet and sleep.
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Willpower:
The old advice that things will seem better in the morning has nothing to do with daylight, and everything to do with depletion. A rested will is a stronger will.
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Willpower:
Procrastinators typically avoid one task by doing something else, and rarely do they sit there doing nothing at all.
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Willpower:
Precommitment helps you avoid the hot-cold empathy gap… the common failure to appreciate, in moments of cool deliberation, how you’ll feel in the heat of later moments.
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Willpower:
…monitoring lets you improve your long-term planning. If you keep records, you can periodically check how far you’ve come so that you can set more realistic goals in the future.
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Willpower:
…the most successful strategies for promoting self-control involve rewards.
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Willpower:
Never underestimate how little it takes to motivate.
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