Making yourself do something, or stopping yourself from acting a certain way - which is easier?

Depends on my mood. I have self discipline, but I also have a temper. Sometimes I walk away from the angry responses, sometimes not. I don’t have a problem with talking myself into doing good things, It’s not that hard.

They’re about the same.

I can make myself not drink but I can’t stop myself from not drinking.

The former. I’m advanturous, so it’s harder to repress the urge to do something.

I find habit modification much more challenging that just making myself do something, usually.

I’m not sure. As others have said it depends on the thing I’m either trying to make myself do or prevent myself from doing. Is the thing I’m trying to stop an addition? Then it will be harder to stop because there are probably physiological as well as psychological elements influencing my behaviour.

As to making myself do things, I can find it very hard to force myself to do some things. Yet if I can develop a habit, the thing isn’t hard to do at all.

The answer is all in the detail. I’ve been trying to make myself write for the last couple of hours and I still haven’t got going!

Those are really the same in my opinion. Both require you to go against your natural flow to produce desired results.