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Make it a Habit
習慣成自然
The absolute best thing you can do to ensure you have the willpower to persist in the face of challenges and temptations, is to simply conserve it. One way to do this by turning as much positive activity as possible into habitual behavior. I assume you don’t have to exert willpower to brush your teeth every day and that doing so has just become an automatic part of your daily routines.
最好的做法就是在挑戰和誘惑面前堅定不移，把這些積極的做法形成你的習慣。你看，每天早上刷牙，你需要毅力嗎？那是每天例行的。
About 10 years ago I went on a very strict diet for about 1 year. I went cold turkey on a bunch of crap I had been stuffing myself with for decades. This took a lot of willpower at first, but after a few months on the diet it took absolutely no self-control to maintain. I simply got in the habit of refusing to eat certain foods. There was no decision involved. I didn’t have to continually debate whether I should or I shouldn’t eat something and I thereby preserved my willpower resources for other issues. Over the subsequent years, when I applied less strict standards, I found myself failing to eat properly much more frequently. This was especially true when my willpower was drained at the end of a stressful day.
10年前，我節食了一年，我每天就胡亂吃了一點凍火雞。這一開始的確需要很大的意志力，但幾個月之后，我就不用控制自己了。不用多想也不用糾結，我習慣不吃一些東西了。這樣我就不用把有限的意志力放在這個問題上了。接下來幾年，我的節食沒那么嚴格了，于是我的飲食規律開始有點不正常，尤其是在我勞累一天，毅力耗盡之時。
