3 Highly Effective Ways To Gain Back Self Control With Total Living

Observe when it happens and negotiate with yourself

In yesterday’s article, I mentioned the main reason for your lacking self-control being a conflict with your executive (orderly, structured) mind and intuitive (chaotic, playful) mind.

How do we solve the conflict?

By doing one of the following things:

1. Observe and come back to the present moment (Total Presence)

Whenever you find yourself scrolling, bingeing, and stuck in general, take a breath. Just take a minute to do nothing and look around. Feel the stress, pain, and frustration you feel in the moment.

Then after that, you will naturally decide if you should step away or continue with what you did.

2. Plan time for your productive tasks and use your unplanned time for scrolling (Hyperproductivity)

It might sound crazy to you but the intuitive mind is often right. Sometimes you do need to indulge in what others can show you via the internet.

My Barbell System solves this by allocating time for what you should do (by planning it) and allowing time for doing whatever…