Create your Emergency Self-Discipline Ritual

This is a ritual you will perform whenever a bad decision tries to seduce you or negative thoughts swarm your mind.

Here’s the standard Emergency Self-Discipline Ritual, but feel free to adapt it for yourself:

* Say “Stop!”, “Concentrate!”, or “Focus!” to yourself depending on what the ritual is used for

* Clench your Fists, the harder the better. The greater the physical stimuli, the bigger the mental response

When you clench your fist, visualize the power and energy it provides coursing through you, it will make it more effective. Also, make sure you always follow through.

After a while, your mind will associate the fist clenching with success, and then expect to succeed after you clench. But if you use this tool but fail to avoid the temptation, it will become less effective the next time. For me, sometimes just the fear of losing this tool forces me to follow through.