I told her I ________this video game too much, and now I can keep myself from playing it by putting the game in the sixty dollars piece of plastic.

What's the difference between successfully resisting a temptation and just not having a temptation.

The idea is that the radish people were tired from using their willpower unresisting cookies, ______, they had less willpower to use on the puzzle. 

Ego Depletion: An Energy Model of Self-regulation

So _____ you use a bunch of willpower on one thing, then you have less energy to use later on resisting temptations, staying______, or even making good decisions.

Ego Depletion is a thing. Some methods are just effective for testing it, and some ________.

For example, It's going to be at least a little harder to focus on your work if you're on a diet and your friend ______ pies and cookies.

They then took a look at the data of nearly eight thousand desired reports and found that the more desires the person _______, the more likely they were to give into future desires.

This kind of results of the survey makes sense.

But here's what's interesting, in this study the people who are best at self control and said that they were the type of person who was good at resisting temptations. They actually reported experiencing fewer temptations throughout the study.

Are you the type of person who is best at self control?

That is the diligent people with high self control apparently were just using less self-control.

They gathered data from one hundred and fifty nine university students and found that those exerting more self control were not more successful in achieving their goals.

It was the people who______ so that they didn't have to use self control that were more successful.

Since I________ at home most of the time lately, playing Smash Brothers is always an option. Because that option is always there, I'm a little distracted by it.

In James Clear's book Atomic Habits, he explains, there's a four part habits cycle, the Cue, Carving, Response, and Reward. 

If you're a little bored, tired and unfocused, this feeling is a ______ for a craving for coffee.

In response to the ______ for a cup of coffee you get up and get a cup of coffee.

you are then_______ for your behavior with the energy and the nice taste the coffee provides.

He says a really effective way for breaking bad habits is to just make the _____ weaker or more obscured.

So at least for me, when I remove one of the choices by locking it in this box, it feels like my brain stops doing all those calculations and a more relaxed and more focused.

A simple way to reduce that uncertainty and indecision and stop being distracted by these choices is to make the choices that you don't want to make harder  or simply delete them.

What's the antonym of the underlined words?