Title: Moral Licensing - How Your Good Deeds Make You Bad
Headings: Moral Licensing – How Your Good Deeds Make You Bad
Decision Making Procrastination Productivity
Moral Licensing – How Your Good Deeds Make You Bad
What is moral licensing?
1. Your past good actions warranting current bad actions:
2. Your future plans justifying the current behavior
Why do you morally license yourself?
Studies and experiments conducted
Examples of moral licensing in daily life
1. Completing a task and taking a break
Completing a difficult task serves as a license to waste time before starting another task.
2. Cutting down one habit and increasing another
3. Overindulging in bad habits before a specific date
4. Eating unhealthy because you started working out
5. Spending after saving
6. Blowing money which you won unexpectedly
How to stop moral licensing?
1. Use the 2-second rule of receive pause respond
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2. Ask yourself if you’re under the influence of moral licensing
3. Do not frame your behavior as good or bad
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Conclusion

Content: Spending after saving
When you realize you need to save money, you make a plan to cut down your expenses. You start scanning your grocery list to identify where you can reduce the bill. You head out to the supermarket and come back with a cart that costs less than your usual bill. On the way out of the mall, you walk by a sunglasses store. Since you saved some money from your grocery shopping, you believe you can buy a pair of shiny black sunglasses. Overall, you end up with the bigger hole in your pocket. Saving money in one area can lead to a higher expense in another. Saving pennies can turn into an excuse to splurge pounds right under your nose. Such behavior is influenced by the environment too. You have higher chances of spending when you walk in a mall than when you’re at home.