TranslateMom If you have an early flight in the morning and you know you If you have an early flight in the morning and you know you
need to sleep, it might cause you to try to fall need to sleep, it might cause you to try to fall
asleep. Now, the more you try, the more alert your brain asleep. Now, the more you try, the more alert your brain
gets, which keeps you awake. But if you just gets, which keeps you awake. But if you just
pretend you're already sleeping, close your eyes, pretend you're already sleeping, close your eyes,
slow your breathing, lie still, eventually you would slow your breathing, lie still, eventually you would
actually drift off. And this is how we normally fall actually drift off. And this is how we normally fall
asleep, by pretending we already are. asleep, by pretending we already are.
Now, let's say you want to get fit. If you keep telling yourself, Now, let's say you want to get fit. If you keep telling yourself,
"I need to get fit," it feels like a chore. "I need to get fit," it feels like a chore.
You'll start and stop over and over. You'll start and stop over and over.
But if you just pretend you're already a fit person, well, But if you just pretend you're already a fit person, well,
you'll start making the choices a fit person makes. you'll start making the choices a fit person makes.
You'll pick the water over the soda. You'll pick the water over the soda.
You'll go for the walk instead of scrolling. You'll go for the walk instead of scrolling.
Not because you're forcing yourself, but because that's just what a Not because you're forcing yourself, but because that's just what a
fit person does. And if you pretend long enough, fit person does. And if you pretend long enough,
well, it might just stop being pretend. well, it might just stop being pretend.