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Ordering #1166 · From Chad

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  Granny said eat your veggies first.
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  There's a story behind that. This is your daily message from
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  Chad #1166 to upgrade your mental game today by telling
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  yourself a better story. Because the most important story
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  you hear is the story you tell yourself.
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  This message is dedicated to Sarah Geneva Rose Badgley on her
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  birthday. Happy birthday Sarah, here's the
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  upgrade. You think you have a discipline
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  problem, but upgraded think he knows most of it is just an
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  ordering problem. Here's the story.
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  Charlie Munger loved the simplest reward system on earth.
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  He called it Granny's rule. You eat your carrots before you
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  get your dessert. You don't need a new reward, a
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  new app, a new accountability partner.
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  You treat yourself already. You take the coffee, the couch,
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  the phone you were going to have anyway, and you just move it to
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  2nd. The dessert was never the
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  problem. Its position was you don't
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  delete dessert, you demote it. This message may wrap up a
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  little miniseries we've been doing on incentives.
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  You can go back to message 1162 if you want to start at the
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  beginning. Kobe Bryant at the beginning of
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  the summer would write out his entire training program, every
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  workout in advance. Why on paper?
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  Why so early? Because he knew that mid-july,
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  exhausted, he'd start negotiating with himself.
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  What if I did this instead? I could just skip today.
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  So he made the decisions before the excuses arrived.
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  Writing it down took the vote off the ballot.
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  That's Granny's rule at the level of a champion.
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  Decide once while you're strong so you don't have to decide
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  again when you're weak, because that's the real disease.
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  Kevin Kelly says the whole purpose of a habit is to remove
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  the action from self negotiation.
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  Most of us never do it. We redecide the hard thing.
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  Every single morning we hold a little election in our head.
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  Should I work out? Should I write?
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  Should I make the call? And we campaign and we stall and
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  eventually willpower loses. Nobody wins 1000 elections in a
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  row. But Chad, isn't that just
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  discipline? No discipline is winning the
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  fight. Granny's rule is not having the
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  fight at all. And don't underestimate how much
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  of your life runs like this, Munger said.
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  He spent his whole career in the top 5% of people who understand
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  incentives and still underestimated their power every
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  single year. So you are almost certainly
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  under estimating how much of your I need more willpower is
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  really just I put dessert first. The better story to tell
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  yourself is I put things in their proper order.
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  Name your carrot, the workout, the page, the call.
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  Name your dessert, the coffee, the couch, the feed.
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  Fix the order. Put the carrot 1st and then
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  decide it once today. So tomorrow there's no vote.
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  Carrots, then dessert. Every day, no exception.
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  Tell me a story of a granny's rule you run on yourself to from
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  chadsmith@gmail.com. Send someone a text and ask them
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  what's your carrot and what's your dessert?
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  You can get a free copy of my book, The Most Powerful Story in
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  the World, by going to from chad.gumroad.com.
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  The transcript of this message and hundreds of others are
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  always available at www.fromchad.com.