The antidote to impulsiveness is forethought #shorts

The antidote to impulsiveness is forethought. Let me explain that. The antidote to impulsiveness is forethought. That when we leave these temptations to the last minute, we will lose. So if the cigarette is in your hand, you're going to smoke it. If the chocolate cake is on the fork on the way to your mouth, if you're on a diet, it's too late you're going to eat it. If you sleep next to your cell phone every night before you go to bed and you wake up first thing in the morning, you're going to reach for your cell phone before you even say hello to your loved ones, because it's too late. You've already lost. You left it up to the last minute. But if you plan ahead, okay, the antidote to impulsiveness is forethought. If you use forethought, there's no distraction you can't overcome. Because fundamentally, distraction is an impulse control issue. It's simply that we haven't planned ahead to make sure that we do what we really want to do versus what we want to do in the moment. So the antidote to impulsiveness is forethought. If you plan ahead today, there's no distraction you can't overcome tomorrow.