Create situations where my future self will be motivated to do the right thing.
Motivated by what? The details may be important.
The easiest way is to create motivation by fear -- there are some ways to make the future worse for you if you don't do X, for example betting a lot of money, making a public precommitment -- but I guess this has some bad side effects.
I declare my future self to be another person who I wish to bend to my will.
"bending to ones will" is unprofessional and might cause "retaliation" (e.g. breaking out of the pattern).
You can better better influence your future self by giving yourself an environment where you want to do and enjoy the things.
The classical example to support a long-term bond is by making shared investments e.g. a house. You can motivate your future self to stay in a long-term relationship by building a large shared base. This will give you additional m...
Here's an internal dialogue I just had.
Q: How do we test rationality skills?
A: We haven't come up with a comprehensive test yet.
Q: Maybe we can test some part of rationality?
A: Sure. For example, you could test resistance to akrasia by making two contestants do some simple chores every day. The one who fails first, loses.
Q: That seems like a pointless competition. If I'm feeling competitive, why would I ever skip the chores and lose?
A: Whoa, wait. If competitiveness can cure akrasia, that's pretty cool!
Now we just need to figure out how to make people more competitive in the areas they care about...