A Way To Increase Will Power

Is There A Way To Increase Your Willpower?

By Mike Bond

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where there’s a job or a project you’re determined to do? It’ll have to wait until this afternoon, because you’ll be working during the morning, but you’ve put this off long enough. You come home, have lunch and sit down for a little while. There’s absolutely nothing to stop you from doing the job now.

But still you sit there. The next thing is, you drop off to sleep. You awake with a start, and find you’ve slept for half an hour. Still plenty of time. No. Wait. What did Fred say about that programme that comes on at four o’clock? He said he was sure I’d be very interested in it. So to make a long story short, bang goes another day.

Is there a way you can increase your willpower? You try to make excuses for not knuckling down to the job, but the truth of the matter is, you just don’t have the willpower to even start the work. It’s really rather important to be able to deny yourself things or treats of some sort from time to time. Not only does it discipline the mind, but you get a darned sight more done.

But is increasing your willpower really the same as developing a muscle? Well, yes and more. Scientists at the University of Hamilton in Ontario found that indeed too much exercise of willpower can temporarily weaken it, in just the same way if you do too many bicep curls, you’ll weaken the muscle for a while. That’s why bodybuilders work out different muscles on different days.

So it would be a mistake to do something requiring willpower, and then to deny yourself a piece of that lovely pie. But have a care how you expend your willpower.

New Year is the traditional time for resolutions. Yes, you say to yourself, this year’s going to be very different. I’m giving up smoking. No more Scotch when I come home from work. Buy a membership to the local gym club. No more raiding the fridge at night. I’ll stop doing this, that and the other.

I remember when I was in the alcohol clinic for the last time, a bloke in there was in for the same thing as me. Very nice chap, but he happened to announce his plan to give up smoking in front of a couple of the nurses. They discouraged him very strongly. It would completely over load the willpower. Get yourself used to not drinking first and then start cutting down on your smoking.

This is why so many resolutions peter out. People try to do too much all at once. Now, giving up smoking is a very big step. Try that first, if you like, and see how you get on. If that works, and you’re pretty sure you’re free of the habit, then cut out the midnight snacks.

Another interesting point is that the exercise of will power uses up physical energy too. So go easy on the amount you use.

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Who Can You Become?

Your Potential is a Picture of What You Can Become

by: Brian Gosur

According to the dictionary, the meaning to the word, “believe” is; to have confidence in the truth, the existence, or the reliability of something; although without absolute proof that one is right in doing so.

When you were a kid, did you believe in Santa Claus? I remember those days of wonder and excitement, writing your letters to Santa and waiting to see if you were good enough to get what was on your list, but as I got older and I listened to what my friends were saying, and some little things that I noticed on my own, It started to make my belief in Santa a little bit shaky. I wanted to believe, but the truth in the evidence of the existence of Santa just wasn’t there anymore. So I have come to the terrible conclusion, at the age of fifty seven, that there really is no Santa Claus. I hate to be the one to tell you that.

On a more serious note, do you believe in yourself? Remember that believe means to have confidence in the truth, the existence or reliability of who you really are. Do you know who you really are? I think that sometimes we hide who we really are because of the people, or the things that those people around us, have told us about ourselves. You will become a product of your environment, even if your environment is lying.

I grew up in a very unloving home. It was a home where we were never encouraged or given pats on the back for our successes. We never really had to many, and when we did they were either not acknowledged or we were ridiculed for even trying to do them. I was always told that I would never be able to achieve anything worthwhile.

But there was always an uncontrollable drive to compete, be competitive, and win. This stir was noticed by a coach and teacher in one of my schools that took me under his arm. He worked with me, encouraged me, and told me that I was good at sports and I should go out and tryout for some of the teams. This man gave me the hope and stirred the belief in myself, that I am good at things and if I work hard I can achieve success.

Well it took a long time but that seed of belief he planted in me started to sprout. I started to play sports and I realized that I could run fast, and I could hit the ball pretty good too. My confidence in the truth of which I really was, and not the lies that everybody else told me about myself, started to make me stronger, more confident, and more persistent in my drive to succeed.

Where are you? Your potential is a picture of what you can become. You believing in that potential helps you see it more clearly, and give you the strength to reach out, grab it, and make that truth a reality.

97% of the world’s population lives in a box that was molded by what everyone else said about them, and only 3% ever get out of that box, and reach for that truth that they know and have living in themselves. If you’re reading this article, you are a part of that three percent.

Don’t believe or listen to what someone else said or is saying about you and your dreams. Take a long look in your own heart. What do you see? What do you want to achieve? What is there? Take that inventory of yourself, and then take the necessary steps to training and moves you need to do to get on that road to the success you deserve.

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A Way To Increase Will Power

Is There A Way To Increase Your Willpower?

By Mike Bond

Have you ever found yourself in a situation where there’s a job or a project you’re determined to do? It’ll have to wait until this afternoon, because you’ll be working during the morning, but you’ve put this off long enough. You come home, have lunch and sit down for a little while. There’s absolutely nothing to stop you from doing the job now.

But still you sit there. The next thing is, you drop off to sleep. You awake with a start, and find you’ve slept for half an hour. Still plenty of time. No. Wait. What did Fred say about that programme that comes on at four o’clock? He said he was sure I’d be very interested in it. So to make a long story short, bang goes another day.

Is there a way you can increase your willpower? You try to make excuses for not knuckling down to the job, but the truth of the matter is, you just don’t have the willpower to even start the work. It’s really rather important to be able to deny yourself things or treats of some sort from time to time. Not only does it discipline the mind, but you get a darned sight more done.

But is increasing your willpower really the same as developing a muscle? Well, yes and more. Scientists at the University of Hamilton in Ontario found that indeed too much exercise of willpower can temporarily weaken it, in just the same way if you do too many bicep curls, you’ll weaken the muscle for a while. That’s why bodybuilders work out different muscles on different days.

So it would be a mistake to do something requiring willpower, and then to deny yourself a piece of that lovely pie. But have a care how you expend your willpower.

New Year is the traditional time for resolutions. Yes, you say to yourself, this year’s going to be very different. I’m giving up smoking. No more Scotch when I come home from work. Buy a membership to the local gym club. No more raiding the fridge at night. I’ll stop doing this, that and the other.

I remember when I was in the alcohol clinic for the last time, a bloke in there was in for the same thing as me. Very nice chap, but he happened to announce his plan to give up smoking in front of a couple of the nurses. They discouraged him very strongly. It would completely over load the willpower. Get yourself used to not drinking first and then start cutting down on your smoking.

This is why so many resolutions peter out. People try to do too much all at once. Now, giving up smoking is a very big step. Try that first, if you like, and see how you get on. If that works, and you’re pretty sure you’re free of the habit, then cut out the midnight snacks.

Another interesting point is that the exercise of will power uses up physical energy too. So go easy on the amount you use.

Source

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