The parapsychologist turned sceptic Susan Blackmore suggests an experiment where you don’t think or plan anything, e.g. you don’t say to yourself, “Time to get out of bed.” What you find is that you just do things anyway. The internal monologue is redundant. Buddhist point.
You could almost say it’s telling a story to make sense of what you were going to do anyway. “Stop thinking, and end your problems.” — Tao.