Weakness of the will: Is a quick fix possible?

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Implementation intentions in the entrepreneurial process: concept, empirical findings, and research agenda (2018, background): “Implementation intentions have been effectively applied to what Gollwitzer (2014) considers the most prominent challenges affecting goal attainment.”
Self-regulation of time management: mental contrasting with implementation intentions (2015, background): “Implementation intentions facilitate the attainment of goals based on psychological mechanisms that pertain to the anticipated situation (specified in the if-part) and to the mental association formed between the if-part and the then-part of the plan (Gollwitzer, 2014).”
Pragmatic Prospection: How and Why People Think about the Future (2016, background): “…have found that making such if– then plans to accomplish things on particular occasions led to much better performance than controls—even controls who had the same general goals and values but did not articulate implementation intentions (Gollwitzer, 1999, 2014; Gollwitzer & Sheeran, 2006).”