You can’t choose your consequences once you’ve chosen the action. Choose earlier.

The only moment you have any control is before. Once the action is done, what follows is attached to it and runs on its own schedule, with no part of it open to negotiation. People try anyway, which is what bargaining after the fact is. The decision point was earlier, and it was brief.

Work out in advance where your actual decision points are, since they are usually one step further back than they feel. Not whether to drink at the party, but whether to drive there. Not whether to look at your phone during the exam, but whether to bring it into the room.