Take the decision out of the moment

I will revise more this week is a goal. It tells you what you want and it leaves the deciding to a future version of you, standing in a doorway at nine at night, feeling exactly the way lesson two described.

That version of you loses. Not because they are weak, but because in that moment the immediate relief is worth more than the distant benefit, which is what the mechanism predicts.

So do not send them into that fight. Decide now, while you are calm, what the moment will be and what you will do in it. Then the moment arrives already settled.