Psychologists have long observed that will power is overrated.
The most successful people build habits that eliminate the need for decision-making. Over time, the routines they establish help them accomplish far more than white-knuckling ever could.
Respondents in a recent Quora thread offered the best habits they've picked up from others.
Here's a sampling of their time-tested strategies.
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Don't give yourself too many choices.
Nela Canovic says she filled her life with choices thinking it made her happier, until a friend pointed out how much time she was wasting not making a decision.
Now she limits her number of options in restaurants, furniture, clothes, and basically everything to just two or three options.
"It makes my life easier," she says. "It makes me actually enjoy the day."
Exercise judicious patience.
Elizabeth Simmons recalls a senior colleague impressing on her the value of cultivating heaping doses of patience to make important decisions or solve tough problems.
"Often, a period of reflection and consultation will either produce a new solution to the original problem or reveal the presence of a complementary problem such that the two problems may end up being one another's solutions," Simmons writes.
Celebrate your wins.
Matt Sandrini and his friend Phil are accountability partners. Whenever one accomplishes his goals, the other asks how he'll celebrate. It's an important ritual, Sandrini says.
Planning to celebrate keeps him focused on the task, helps him associate goal-setting with pleasure, and gives him a much-needed break when he hits his goal, before moving on to the next one.
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