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Many times, improving our self-development is hard to do because of the lack of willpower, even when we know that doing this, or changing that would make us drive into success.
It’s not only about you being lazy to take another step, but your body and the outcome also respond to the ways your inner self screaming, I won’t do it; it’s going to waste my time because, in the end, I just CAN’T DO IT.
But how do you know you can’t when you haven’t even tried once? Let’s awaken your willpower, a part of the psychological science of self-control that will encourage you to manage your stress levels and productivity. And see how you can make this willpower response to your goals in the best way possible!
It begins with ‘WILL’ that means the desire and intention to have something happen, leading to having the power to control and exercise the will that we have. We have to make decisions every day since the little things to the bigger ones and people who have strong willpower, of course, will have a better determination in their decision. It’s not only about the effective decision making, but that’s also implying to the strong decisiveness, the resolution, and persistence that people have to make their path going right as they decide.
Willpower is not just a concept, but it’s also involved with the brain from the impulsive and emotional functions to reflective one. It comes along with the plan and the know-how to control your temper and get rid of distraction, or unwanted thoughts in order to resist the short-term temptations and make it be the path for the effective long-term achievement. Especially in the professional world, it’s very essential to bring you to growth.
You would remember the time you don’t want to get up to work because your hard tasks are waiting for you to make it through. While answering your boss that you can do it when being assigned, but actually your mental internally screaming NO. Or, when you have opportunities to step into a higher career ladder, but you decide to leave it because you think you’re still not good enough.
It’s beyond the lack of self-confidence with the lack of willpower that you decide you CAN’T do it and you are not willing to change it to ‘CAN’ since the beginning. Then, how to train your brain to replace it with CAN when it’s so hard to do?
Stress management is very important to increase your willpower since it will prevent you to make a bad decision without a second thought based on short-term outcomes. That’s the time when stress can’t block you from seeing the clear big picture in your hard tasks, or the goals you want to achieve.
The single goal will help you concentrate better from its clearer objective and also will be more effective rather than taking on a list of goals at once in which it can make you feel uncertain and the ‘cannot do it’ evil will come back. When you can exceed one then continue to do the next.
Planning is the key to help you have better self-control. The plan you have will help you resist temptation and importantly, it’s about having the effective decision making ahead of time. Just from this, you can change the unwanted thought to I CAN DO IT! If you think that the work you do is difficult, you might plan weekly on how you will learn ways to resolve and make it better.
The wills and the keys above will be powered up when you exercise until they turn to be your self-discipline. Changing your habits or thoughts can’t make it through only just once or twice attempts, but daily and repeatedly. It will become one of your positive habits that helps you succeed when you start to do anything or face any obstacle.
According to the ‘Stress in America’ survey, it reveals that the greatest obstacle to change was the lack of willpower. Let’s adapt the key takeaways into your work life! Even with the difficult tasks or your dream job that might seem to be far out of reach, willpower will help you plan and know exactly how to make everything become ‘CAN’.
