Hello, and welcome back to Practicing Human, the podcast where every day we're getting

a little better at life.

I'm your host, Cory Muscara, and in today's episode, I'm going to share three tips to

develop more self-control.

More to come on that in a moment, first, let's settle in together with the sound of the

controls.

So self-control, aka self-regulation, it's a hot topic, especially in the personal development

space, and I think we all are familiar with the merit of having good self-control.

There's something we want to do, we feel the desire to do something else, and we can bring

our attention back to the task at hand, there's something we don't want to do, we feel the

energy to do that, and we can restrain ourselves enough to choose where we want to direct

our attention instead.

So this is a core capacity that is fundamental to any sort of achievement or growth.

And before going into a few steps to help develop it, I should also acknowledge that I think

self-control, self-regulation, things like willpower are a little over-hyped.

The research seems to support this as well, and more effective strategies tend to be creating

good systems within your life that allow you to more organically move toward the positive

things, the healthy things, and not be consumed by the negative things.

And so that might be a conversation for another podcast, but even within all of that, there

are going to be moments where we need to practice some self-control.

And so here are three things that I find useful.

The first is just simply slowing down, when we're moving quickly throughout the day, especially

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