How can I balance different motivations?

We say the self, and we say the I as if it's the singled congruenced entity that thinks and wants a single thing at a time, but actually a better metaphor for me in thinking about reconciling all these different needs is to think of me as we, what we want.

And some parts of me will want... the reflective self will want the thing that looks good in retrospect. And then the experiencing self will want the thing that feels good to do at the time. And how do you reconcile different people that want different things? How you do it in a political project? How do you do it in life in general? You try to establish a dialogue between your different selves and then have each part be heard and then see if there's a solution that would work for everybody. And if not, maybe you take turns and you do a little bit of this and a little bit of that. It's work in progress because you're constantly having that conversation. I never really finish having it.