Bribe yourself

Before Breakfast

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Education, Self-improvement

4.5 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 22 June 2021

⏱️ 7 minutes

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Make exercise a lot more fun

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0:00.0	13 Days of Halloween Penance. Season 4 of the award-winning horror fiction
0:05.3	podcast presented in immersive 3D audio.
0:08.2	If I am under arrest, you have to tell me what I'm charged with.
0:11.3	Starring Natalie Morales of Parks and Recreation and Dead To Me.
0:14.9	Please, you've been some kind of mistake. I'm not supposed to be here.
0:18.4	How do you know? I'm innocent.
0:20.3	Are any of us truly innocent?
0:22.3	Premiering October 19th, ending Halloween.
0:25.2	Listen to 13 Days of Halloween on the iHeartRadio app Apple Podcasts or wherever you get your podcasts.
0:35.8	Welcome to Before Breakfast, a production of iHeartRadio.
0:41.6	Good morning. This is Laura. Welcome to the Before Breakfast podcast.
0:48.2	Today's tip is to bribe yourself to exercise.
0:52.4	By making exercise, your ticket, to an experience you do enjoy.
0:58.4	When I talk with people about what they'd like to spend more time doing, exercise comes up a lot.
1:06.7	We know we should be doing it, but well, in the moment other things can feel more appealing.
1:13.2	Our future selves will be happy we exercised.
1:16.8	Unfortunately, our current experiencing selves are the ones who have to power through the workout
1:23.7	and our experiencing selves can resent this division of labor.
1:28.8	The best way to solve this problem is to bribe your current experiencing self
1:34.9	as a way to compensate her for making the right choice.
1:39.4	In a previous episode, I described the concept of temptation bundling.
1:44.5	This means making something you should do more attractive by pairing it with something you
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