Every Time You Don’t Give into Temptation, You Win a Small Piece of Your Life Back
As human beings, we are primed to be attracted to a Smorgy’s Boards of temptations. My own fine-dining menu of temptations includes social media, junk food, computer games (anything with Mario because it takes me back to childhood) and alcohol.
You are smoking crack and passing magic mushrooms under oakwood park benches if you think you are immune from temptation.
We can’t avoid temptation — but each time you avoid it, you win a small piece of your life back.
Right now, a few temptations have got the best of me and one of those is social media. You know when temptation is winning because you lose control. You set boundaries and then break those boundaries consistently.
But what if temptations have an upside?
That’s the question I pondered. What if there was a way to rig the system in your favor?
Discipline wins part of the battle. Each time you can demonstrate to yourself that you are disciplined, the power a temptation has over you becomes weaker. Using discipline, you can build a new habit that overrides the temptation you seek to eliminate.
The thing about temptations is that we know deep down that they are more of a problem in our lives than a…
