Emotional self-management lowers the attractiveness of these distractions. If you could call someone and solve the flight delay, you would immediately do that instead of goofing around on your phone. And when we have the tools to manage our emotions, the world’s baubles and time-wasters no longer attract us so much—nor do we have the time to waste on them. We aren’t stuck in place anymore. We are willing and able to build for the future instead of frittering away our time in the present.
