TJ Walker explains that self-discipline is a limited resource that depletes throughout the day. If you know stressful traffic is coming before an important meeting, leave earlier to decompress. Protect your composure for what matters.
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Warning. You and I are humans. We have a limited reservoir of self discipline. So if you know you're going to be in a challenging situation to face difficult conversations with family members or friends or colleagues, then it's going to help you to avoid putting yourself in situations where you know you're already going to use up all of your self discipline. If you know you're going to be in traffic for an hour and people are going to be cutting you off, yelling at you, honking, then leave two hours early so you can have an hour of decompression before that meeting with an important client or employees. Otherwise, you're likely to erupt. Not because you're a bad person, but because you have limited wells of self discipline. Please follow the TJ Walker habit.