The Importance of Self-Control Interventions

Many of the modern life temptations are not going to have much impact on your life if you just let go a few times. It's okay to skip your homework one night, it's okay to eat one cookie if you are trying to eat less sugar. One time that you're not wearing your seat belt isn't going to have significant effect on your life expectancy. The problem is identifying this when decision is part of a broad pattern. And what self-control interventions often do is helping people seeing this single decision as part of a pattern.