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Model your willpower as a limited resource and stop over-spending it.
If you make a big push, you will have less in the tank for later. It’s nothing to be ashamed of it’s just biological fact.
The way to maintain some productivity when you’re feeling unmotivated is to already have habits in place which get things done without requiring willpower.
One of the hardest things to do is to get over this implicit model of willpower as an infinite resource.
What willpower as a limited resource really, really means is this: stop spending it indiscriminately!
People think it is always the right move to do the difficult thing. But you don’t get to do an infinite number of difficult things each day. You have to ration them out.