Decisions ahead of time are the secret to the life we want.
We have two parts of our brain – the habit, or primitive brain, that wants to keep us safe but has some non-helpful ideas on how to do that, and the neocortex, the new, fancy, iPhone part of the brain that allows us access to our higher self and to the ability to plan for the future and to change our lives.
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If we could live from the neocortex, we’d get what we want in the fastest, most efficient way possible. So how do we do that? The secret is to make a decision ahead of time. When we make a food plan at least 24 hours in advance, we are using the best part of ourselves to make a plan. Understand that when the time comes to stick to our plan, we won’t want to do it. But if we can stick with that plan, we start to build trust with ourself. If past you built a plan that was health-focused but not ridiculously strict, and if current you can stick to the plan, then future you will benefit from those choices. Even though the primitive brain will cry and moan and try to get us to break our commitments to ourselves, that part of us actually CANNOT take action without the permission of our conscious mind. We get to choose in the moment if we will stick to our plan or flake out. Every time we stick to our plan, we build that muscle and get better at it. And that is the secret to success.
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