And if those familiar emotions influence the choices you are going to make that day, the behaviors you’re going to exhibit, or the experiences you are going to create for yourself, then you’re going to appear predictable—and your life is going to stay the same.

But when we rely solely on willpower to make a project happen, we’re setting ourselves up for failure. Willpower is a vanishingly scarce resource, and we have to use it for all kinds of things, all day. As we use it, it is depleted. Why waste your willpower when you can create routines that avoid forcing you to face decisions that will be hard to m

Baumeister, Roy and John Tierney. 2012. Willpower: Rediscovering the Greatest Human Strength.

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