You can use principles of conditioning to set up your life in such a way that your environment supports your self-discipline instead of undermining it.

Make an honest assessment of your environment and try to identify the external factors that influence and shape your behavior.

Maintain and strengthen the factors that fuel your self- discipline, and remove or alter those that unnecessarily challenge your self-control.

When it comes to learning and molding behaviors, reinforcement is better than punishment.

However, genuine internal motivation beats both reinforcement and punishment.

While this appears to counter a strictly behaviorist view, bringing the concept of intrinsic motivation into the picture recognizes the capability of human beings to be driven not just by the pursuit of pleasure and the avoidance of pain, but by their values, deeper motivations, and larger goals.

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