“Where there is a will there is a way”

You know that exercise is good for your health yet sometimes you end up watching TV instead. Some times you want to start a business, go back to school, or work on your professional development plan yet you lack the resolve or will power to just do it.

You probably tell yourself: “I wish I’m more disciplined.” And you wish to get more control over your life by making decisions, plans and following through with them

It is amazing to see that a person might be of an amazing intellect and credentials yet a complete failure because of the lack in will power. On the other hand a man may possess just moderate abilities and yet achieve great success because of will power.

Let’s start with the definition of will power: Will power is the ability to do what you want regardless of your circumstances, feelings or states of mind. Wouldn’t it be nice to say you want to do something and just do it? Wouldn’t be nice to say you want to take a walk today after work and do so. How about in the future when you want to start a business, or make a career move, wouldn’t it be nice to just do it and succeed regardless of the hesitation, tiredness and fear?

Will power is all you need to get things done in you career, relationships and business. Cultivate it and you might be surprised to what you can achieve and do in your life.

Will Power Exercises:

Fortunately life is full of opportunities to practice your will power. Anytime you feel the resistance to doing something is your chance to practice will power. Any time you feel lazy to do something, just do it anyways. Any time you feel overwhelmed to so something, just do it anyways. Any time you procrastinate to do something, just do it anyways.

  • 1. When you come home from work and you see the dished piled up and you know you need to do them and yet you tell your self maybe later, shake that feeling off and do the dishes first.
  • 2. When you have the desire to eat a piece of chocolate, decide not to eat it now, set a specific time to eat it on the next day.
  • 3. When you find yourself feeling a negative emotion, try not to express that emotion.
  • 4. When you feel lazy and just want to watch TV, get up and go for a walk.

Don’t try to do all these exercises at once. Start with one and build on what you gain. With the will power exercise you are training your mind to follow your command. One of the big elusions Man has is that Man is one. Each person has many I’s inside of himself, one might be lazy one might be energetic, and another might be something completely different. In fact in each person there are hundreds and thousands of I’s controlling the person’s behavior. By developing the will power we are developing one of those I’s to be a leader of the whole, so when you decide on something you can summon every inch of your body and mind to help you get it. If you don’t you shall always live in internal chaos with many I’s running the show, one day you feel lazy, one day you feel sad, one day you do things and one day you just sit there doing nothing.

The subject of I’s will be covered in depth later on, for now start developing your will power step by step and gain mastery over what you do and get what you want.

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