Adapting to Change Imagine that you are chronically late to work, and one day your boss announces that employees who come late will be fired. This forces you to begin arriving on time. Now imagine that you are chronically late, but you decide of your own free will to begin arriving on time. In both cases, you need to make the same behavioral change:

arriving on time for work. Would this change be easier for you in the first or in the second scenario? Why? What does this tell you about your self-discipline?