{"id":8367,"date":"2016-03-11T19:36:42","date_gmt":"2016-03-12T00:36:42","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/?p=8367"},"modified":"2016-03-11T20:37:19","modified_gmt":"2016-03-12T01:37:19","slug":"just-do-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/2016\/03\/11\/just-do-it\/","title":{"rendered":"Just Do It"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;just&#8221; part is the hard part. <a href=\"http:\/\/www.slate.com\/articles\/health_and_science\/cover_story\/2016\/03\/ego_depletion_an_influential_theory_in_psychology_may_have_just_been_debunked.html\">Ego depletion may not be real<\/a> (<a href=\"http:\/\/nymag.com\/scienceofus\/2016\/03\/psychologys-favorite-theory-about-willpower-may-be-totally-wrong.html\">another<\/a>), but it certainly seems so for myself. Recently when stressed, I made lots and lots of bad decisions earlier in the day than normal.<\/p>\n<p>These <a href=\"http:\/\/routineexcellence.com\/dont-just-do-it-a-5-step-technique-to-consistently-get-in-the-gym\/\">tactics are essentially my own strategy for getting in gym<\/a> almost every day:<\/p>\n<ol>\n<li><strong>Chaining:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Add it as a step to an existing routine. For me, after work, I go home, change, and go to the gym. The other day, I picked up something from the store and other things to the point the gym was near closing by the time I realized I had not gone. This also makes it a struggle to go on weekends, which I maybe manage one of the two, but the weather has been so nice I sometimes go for an hour walk instead.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Precommitment:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0Making the decision in the moment could go either way. The intentions are better way before the moment. I lay out\u00c2\u00a0the gym clothes on the bed prior to going to work, so I&#8217;d feel compelled to move them to not\u00c2\u00a0following through. (I really do not like the partner example in the post because a friend has flakey partners who often fail to show.)<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reward yourself:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0For me it some bread in the post-workout meal. If I go, then I allow myself to eat some bread. If I fail to go, then I don&#8217;t allow myself any.<\/li>\n<li><strong>Reduced barriers to training:<\/strong>\u00c2\u00a0This is just looking at when I do not go, figure out why and change the environment such that I am more likely to go. And even look at occasions when I almost did not go.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The &#8220;just&#8221; part is the hard part. Ego depletion may not be real (another), but it certainly seems so for myself. Recently when stressed, I made lots and lots of bad decisions earlier in the day than normal. These tactics are essentially my own strategy for getting in gym almost every day: Chaining:\u00c2\u00a0Add it as [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"activitypub_content_warning":"","activitypub_content_visibility":"","activitypub_max_image_attachments":4,"activitypub_interaction_policy_quote":"anyone","activitypub_status":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[462],"tags":[3108],"class_list":["post-8367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-psychology","tag-willpower-depletion"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1rUBW-2aX","jetpack-related-posts":[],"jetpack_likes_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8367\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ezrasf.com\/wplog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}