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The useful part of deciding in advance isn't that discipline disappears, it's that you remove one place where you can negotiate with yourself

I can make a decision to go to gym tomorrow.

My process/playbook for determining if I go to the gym is I go if I didn’t go the day before.

This is both a premade decision and a process that requires discipline to execute on.

So why isn’t a decision made in advance an example of a simple process?

it takes discipline for me to stick to decisions I made earlier.