Are There Any Other Tricks to Giving Gifts to Yourself?

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It souns like eat a referye in terms of, like, i went to have some chocolate when i accomplished this. But if you have the chocolate in the corner, s take, well, it's right there. I guess i can just have it now, regardless of whether i do the thing. So i don't have any clever ideas other than having a referee, gatekeeper holder of the chocolate, or whatever, monitoring things. Are there any other tricks ti it? You you're referring to having another person helping you? And absolutely having other people is always a helpful giving gifts to yourself,. Like this coffee, that's wer too expensive. so you only give

Ayelet Fishbach reveals insights into motivation to help you achieve your goals.

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Ayelet Fishbach is a psychologist and a professor at the University of Chicago. She’s the past president of the Society for the Study of Motivation. She is an expert on motivation and decision making and the author of Get it Done: Surprising Lessons from the Science of Motivation. Ayelet’s groundbreaking research on human motivation has won her several international awards, including the Society of Experimental Social Psychology’s Best Dissertation Award and Career Trajectory Award, and the Fulbright Educational Foundation Award.

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