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I know it doesn't serve me, yet I'm doing it though

Why I consider discipline to not be my first choice!

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Patrick Jeitz
Mar 04, 2024
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Eating vegetables instead of sweets, exchanging coffee for tea and wine for water.

There’re so many things we know would serve us much better, yet still we’re not doing them. Perhaps we try sometimes, but imediately give up again.

Mostly we can’t even find a valid reason for it. We might like vegetables very much, and could even find alternatives to sweets that we truly enjoy.

And still we pull back as if there’s an invisible force grabbing on us.

What would be your technique to tackle it?

Some would say, it’s all about discipline.

Discipline, to me, is only one part of the puzzle, regardless of how good you’re at.

If we look closer at what makes it so difficult, we find 2 elements that we need to work on in order to overcome.

  1. Habit

  2. Unmet needs

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