355 - How to deal with temptations
Mama's Daily Dose
English - October 14, 2022 08:00 - 5 minutes - 3.67 MB - ★★★★★ - 14 ratingsParenting Kids & Family Society & Culture Relationships Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
Temptations are all around us and toward the end of the year they get more prolific.
Spending money
Eating sweets
Drinking more
Procrastinating
How do you deal with all these temptations and triggers surrounding you?
There are 2 aspects to all temptations or triggers:
Hot system - The tempting, arousing quality that makes you want to take action. A marshmallow is fluffy, yummy, sugary.
Cool system - The descriptive (non-emotional) cues. A marshmallow is white, rounded, edible, kinda looks like a cloud.
If you are focusing on the hot features you are more likely to take action and in this situation, at the marshmallow. Whereas, if you focus on the cool features you are less likely to take immediate action in eating the marshmallow.
In order to so no to your temptations you need to use your cool system.
One way to utilize the cool system is to look at the stimulus and the situation from another person's point of view.
Look at a stimulus for you. And imagine you are someone else. What would they think of the stimulus? How would they describe it and what would they do.
By looking through the lens of another person you can activate that cool system/
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