Moral Licensing...

For me, this makes a lot of sense - being ‘good’ with our diet, lets us be ‘bad’ with a little ‘treat’, and having a ‘good’ day at work lets us be ‘bad’ by slacking off tomorrow.

Maybe the problem is in our choice of words - good and bad are opposites, but are so overused that they exist on a super-wide scale - sneaking a doughnut is ‘bad’, but so is armed robbery…

So, what if we set out to make today a ‘great’ day instead ? Not only does it raise the bar on what we might achieve, but I’m fairly sure that none of us would set out to make tomorrow awful as a little treat to ourselves…