The Role of Willpower 💪

Willpower is like a muscle. When you overuse it, it gets tired. But exercising it over time will make it stronger.

You want to rely on habits and exercise willpower steadily.

• Both bad habits and positive change can spread from person to person like germs.
• Thinking about someone with good self-control can increase your own willpower.
• Go public with your willpower challenge.
• Strengthen your willpower immune system. Spend a few minutes at...

Research shows we don’t use much willpower when something is a habit.

Build new habits by manipulating your environment so as to make what you should do easy and what you shouldn’t do hard. Remove the cookies from eyesight and put your running shoes next to the bed.