The Strategy of Scheduling is a powerful weapon against procrastination. Because of tomorrow logic, we tend to feel confident that we'll be productive and virtuous-tomorrow. {The word "procrastinate" comes from cras, the Latin word for "tomorrow."} In one study, when subjects made a shopping list15 for what they'd eat in a week, more chose a healthy snack instead of an unhealthy snack; when asked what they'd choose now, more people chose the unhealthy over the healthy snack. As St. Augustine famously prayed, "Grant me chastity and continency,16 only not yet." Tomorrow.
( Gretchen Rubin )
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