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Speaking as someone who (literally as I type) is vainly struggling to get out of bed, I appreciate this post -- but do you happen to have any meta-willpower tricks? The techinque you described won't quite work for me, because I've realized I don't actually want to get out of bed; at best I want to want.
Try imagining that you want to get out of bed. ;-)
Really, there's no such thing as meta-willpower. Our brains don't really have meta-responses, they have sequential responses, where the "meta" thought is simply "about" the preceding thought.
However, we're as easily fooled and distracted by these "meta" thoughts as by any other thought, and following/believing in them drops you out of monoidealism just as easily. In Coue's words, when the imagination and will are in conflict, the imagination always wins. You need to only imagine getting out of bed, to the exclusion of any thoughts about whether you want to. And you need to either imagine it already happening, or about it happening after a countdown... as long as you imagine and expect that it will actually happen.