If will power does not work what to do

In this article you will learn the following

Under 90+ tips on how to build, utilize, nurture and sustain your will-power - you will find the following

• -40+ Practical tips with examples on how you can supercharge your will-power
• -21 ways to increase your capacity for pressure - and managing stress
• -20 action-steps to create a willpower building regimen

You will also find the following in this article

• -24 instances and causes - when your will-power may not work
• -9 types of fatigues which makes your will-power powerless and inert

If will power does not work what to do

You can have superhuman accomplishments and powers - if only you have very strong whys of doing things that you do.

The strongest propelling forces and drivers of our motivations are having huge passionate dreams and the reason why you want to achieve something great, significant and of immense value.

What is willpower - will power is the ability to resist short-term temptations in order to meet your long-term goals - as defined by the American psychological association.

Willpower can also be about taking positive action - like exercising or controlling the unnecessary and harmful impulses of say succumbing to eating junk food or anything that you are addicted to or want get rid of from your life.

Will power is the ability to overcome laziness and procrastination.

It is the ability to arrive at a decision and follow it with perseverance until it is accomplished successfully.

Self-discipline is at the core of will-power as discipline boosts and strengthened willpower like nothing else.

Willpower gives us the push to persevere and move-on - in face of hardships, difficulties, challenges and obstacles.

The people who continually use and overuse their will-power through forcing themselves get burned out - and could be the most inconsistent and unhappiest people.

7 reasons why you would need to use your willpower to push yourself to do something

• 1.You haven't made up your mind.
• 2.Your you want to take certain actions are not strong enough
• 3.You haven't fully committed to what you're going to do
• 4.Your environment opposes your goals
• 5.You might not have planned on how to create or adopt to the an environment to make your actions implementable
• 6.You have inner conflict between what you should be doing vs. What your heart is telling you to do
• 7.You have chosen the goals based on the end-results and outcome alone & have not thought through the process, actions & the challenges

6 truths about willpower

• 1.Your willpower is like a battery inverter - it is in limited supply as well as it needs recharging through natural mood-boosters and hope-inducers
• 2.If you don't budget and ration and constantly nourish and build your willpower THEN use it only to give you a great push - you may find your willpower failing you when you may need it most - when your mind, body, soul and emotions have given-up
• 3.Your willpower is like a muscle -you build it through regular practice and nourishment in an incremental manner - and - yet is very much like with your body - if you overdo it by taking on a bigger challenge than you're ready for- you won't get stronger -you'll just be sore.
• 4.Your physical state, your emotional and mental state affects your willpower - a hard day at work can limit your ability to meet goals later in the day
• 5.Willpower does matter - but you'll also need capabilities, strategies and follow-through to help you keep on track of growth
• 6.Will power is another name for motivation, grit, self-regulation and self-discipline

24 instances and causes - when your will-power may not work

• 1.When you are banking only on your will power to make you do something - but you really are not very committed or nor that passionate internally or subconsciously
• 2.When you are not convinced about something subconsciously and have given up on that particular thing
• 3.When your subconscious is telling you that it is too much bother and with far too less reward
• 4.When it is just a sudden impulsive inspiration and resolve - like our new year resolution to exercise, leave bad habits, losing weight etc.
• 5.When you think that your will power alone will take care of every challenging assignments, tough battles without really building up your resilience through disciplined practice
• 6.When you are totally fatigued and exhausted - emotionally, mentally as well as physically
• 7.When you are going through about of depression or any such psychological and emotional issues
• 8.When you are recuperating from a severe illness
• 9.When you fighting against big odds and internally also knowing that it is impossible
• 10. When you are doing this purely because of what others are doing - meaning you have picked up this goal from others - without getting in touch with what you really want and desire
• 11. You have constant and continuous internal dialogue which sabotages any resolve that may come up even momentarily
• 12. For some projects and tasks - it might have looked doable in while conceptualizing - but while implementing in real-time you are facing multiple insurmountable challenges
• 13. You are doing it with the hope of finding a reason to quit doing this - as your heart is not in it
• 14. You are trying to do too much by yourself - without enlisting any help and support which is available and which you could have enrolled and recruited easily
• 15. You have underestimated the sustainability of your will power drastically - like in 1^st point you are banking too much on it
• 16. You actually do not know what you want - you are simply going through the motions
• 17. You are not committed enough - or you have yet to decide whether you want to do this or not
• 18. You are very stressed at this moment that is paralyzing your will-power and making you energy-less
• 19. You are physically weak for several reasons
• 20. You have a very poor, unhealthy and sedentary lifestyle
• 21. You have very few dreams or passions
• 22. You are by nature a lazy person - emotionally or mentally
• 23. You have given up on life
• 24. You have excruciating external challenges and obstacles - which is beyond your control

9 types of fatigues which makes your will-power powerless and inert

• 1.Decision making fatigue and inertia
• 2.Planning fatigue and inertia
• 3.Problem solving fatigue and inertia - where the obvious becomes the only option
• 4.Fatigue and inertia when need to explore different and effective alternatives, options and solutions
• 5.Action/implementation/execution fatigue and inertia
• 6.Idea fatigue and inertia - when we find ourselves at loss for generating new ideas
• 7.Mental fogginess and fatigue and inertia
• 8.Energy fatigue and inertia
• 9.Will-power over use fatigue and inertia

90+ tips on how to build, utilize, nurture and sustain your will-power

• 1.Become committed through identifying what you really want and WHY you want this because only when you are fully committed - many of your doubts, anxieties and disbeliefs evaporate and do the following 6 things
• I.Announcement of your intention publicly
• II.Clarifying your priorities-choices-goals
• III.Creating plan
• IV.Implementing plans
• V.Improvising as you move along
• VI.Tracking and monitoring
• 2.40+ Practical tips with examples on how you can supercharge your will-power -one of the most effective strategies to strengthen you willpower is to focus on changing the environment rather than making stronger and more demanding personal efforts to overcome the current challenges -
• A.If you're trying to stop drinking alcohol, you must
• I.Stop being around people that drink alcohol
• II.Avoid places that serve alcohol
• III.Avoid events that will have drinks available in plenty
• IV.Identify and create plan of action to substitute activities and creating support to overcome the triggers which leads to your drinking spree [unless you are already alcoholic plus have very unhealthy addition - in that case you won't need triggers]
• B.If you want to learn a new language
• I.You have to be around people who speak like natives or are natives themselves
• II.You have to keep on speaking wrong, right, anything initially - without bothering grammar, diction, pronunciation etc.
• III.Reading and watching in that language
• C.If you are trying to cut down on your junk food
• I.You need to tweak your portions
• II.Increase the percentage of vegetables - say in your pasta
• III.You need to plan ahead like eating something healthy before a party
• IV.Stocking your refrigerator with healthy food
• V.Create diversions or distractions by creating alternative to eating healthy food
• VI.Cook yourself and try out new recipes
• VII.Surround yourself with people who habitually eat healthy
• D.If you are trying to form healthy habits
• I.Start small, build up little-little success
• II.Get supporters for your change - who would cheer you up as well as remind you and are genuinely happy doing this
• III.Celebrate your little milestones of success -by giving yourself a healthy and positive treat
• IV.Visualizing your future success by incorporating your past triumphs in that to build on something solid
• E.When you want to sustain the initiation of exercise
• I.Exercise intermittently -you don't have to do it all at once - 10 minutes here and 20 there will add up
• II.Make it convenient - you don't have to fixated on certain gym, park or equipment - create plans so that you can do exercise at any time at any place and in any location
• III.Plan for schedule change to adopt to new environments through naturally available resources
• F. 21 ways to increase your capacity for pressure - and managing stress
• I.When you feel overwhelmed take a break - change the environment and come back to this task
• II.Create visualizations that makes you feel glad for what you have achieved & the end results
• III.Get enough sleep
• IV.Meditate, learn to relax your brain by practicing to get it into a thoughtless state
• V.Exercise regularly
• VI.Eat nutritious and healthy food
• VII.Prioritize - do the most important - postpone things that are less important
• VIII.Give yourself treat every-time you reach a mile stone
• IX.Plan daily to do list the night before.
• X.Do the most important thing first
• XI.Do the toughest thing at the time you are fully charged
• XII.Stop making decisions. Start making commitments.
• XIII.Rather than hoping that I will make the right choice each day, schedule the actions those lead me to the outcomes those are important to me.
• XIV.Simplify, break all the complex tasks into easily implementable steps
• XV.Conserve mental & emotional energy, do not waste time & energy on trifle decision taking like what to wear or what to eat for breakfast, the smartest people simplify decision-making -that is why Mark Zuckerberg wears the same t-shirt every day.
• XVI.Don't keep yourself in a constant state of willpower depletion, whenever you are feeling lack of motivation and will to do - stop. Meditate as above and come back
• XVII.Become comfortable being yourself
• XVIII.Try not to multi-task unless absolutely essential
• XIX.Don't start with maximum work or target to kill your chances of succeeding, start in byte sized baby steps
• XX.Keep your blood sugar, blood pressure, cholesterol regulated
• XXI.Keep an emergency tricks for giving a burst of supercharging your energy through activities and special food as treats, if you do find that your willpower is waning
• 3.Although your willpower may be fatigued in the short term, it can be strengthened over time – just like your muscles when you exercise - never squeeze exercise after you have done everything and are exhausted end of the day
• 4.Don't take on too much at once. Try setting small, achievable goals and focus your willpower on accomplishing those -plan ahead - make decisions in advance and schedule important tasks with little pressure on time but not overwhelming one
• 5.Don't buy foods you know you can't resist
• 6.Emotional and mental fatigue decreases your willpower - relax and sleep well
• 7.Reward for reaching all milestone -celebrate with something that is healthy
• 8.Use 10 minutes of meditation everyday
• 9.Using the NLP techniques of balancing your both left and right brain - consciously do things with opposite hand or backwards - do the same with your physical postures - select a chunk of the day to use your opposite hand
• 10. Polish your speech - avoid resisting swear-words - consciously
• 11. Be a self-made-deadline person and will yourself to meet them
• 12. Try to do the mentally toughest work - when you are mentally fresh at the beginning of your day
• 13. Manage your finances better - stop spending on impulsive purchases which are of little use and value
• 14. Consciously - while shaking hands - practice give a firm squeeze with everyone - to show your interest and warm-heartedness
• 15. Learn to resist your unhealthy cravings consciously keep something tempting in front of you but look at it time to time but don't eat or touch that
• 16. Never skip meals - make them healthy 905% of time - give yourself permission to indulge 5% times only - maintain your diary
• 17. Keep your life simple - focus on the basics
• 18. Work on changing only one habit - at a time - because increasing is a slow and gradual process - as we can't change everything all at ones
• 19. When we try to create massive changes - it creates stress and reduces and impacts our willpower negatively
• 20. Slowly start developing powerful habits - which can transform your life
• 21. Create your to do list - which is little stretch but manageable - to give you the thrill of accomplishing big tasks
• 22. Increase your capacity for pressure and being comfortable being in discomfort - by proactively seeking and enjoying challenging tasks and activities - which stretches you physically, mentally and emotionally
• 23. Identify your very customized stress managing strategies
• 24. Promise less - deliver more
• 25. Say no to unwanted and negative demands of others
• 26. Encourage yourself to stick with your planned schedule
• 27. Ignore, avoid, postpone, delegate and outsource - things which are of less or insignificant value
• 28. Keep your focus on your important priorities
• 29. 20 action-steps to create a willpower building regimen - fill with as many answers - as you can come up with - do this as an ongoing updating and application and implementation project
• I.What do you want to do more of
• II.What do you want to do less of
• III.What you want to start doing
• IV.What you want to do differently
• V.What you want to stop doing
• VI.Your long-term goals - which are must happen type
• VII.What habits you want to inculcate
• VIII.What habits you want to get rid of
• IX.What habits you want to manage better
• X.When do you give-in to pressures of other people
• XI.Under which circumstances you give-up
• XII.Which situation exhausts your willpower the most
• XIII.Which future decisions and actions you put-off most often - rule-breaking and reduction in willpower is interrelated
• XIV.Identify your triggers of anger, emotional-breakdown, giving-up, your mental inhibitions and your habits
• XV.Work towards increasing your emotional intelligence - by becoming aware when you fail, wat makes you come alive, what makes you feel guilty, what makes you feel proud of etc.
• XVI.What's one thing you could do right now to have greater success
• XVII.What's one thing you could stop doing right now to improve your quality of life
• XVIII.What's one benefit you will get from your start / stop
• XIX.Who else will benefit in your life from your start / stop
• XX.Out the following which one you can relate with - add yours

Ø Eating less junk food or eating more healthy foods

Ø Watching less television

Ø Spending less time on mobile and social-media

Ø Studying more

Ø Saving more money

Ø Procrastinating less

Ø Spending less

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