11 Habits to Increase Your Willpower

<p>Improving willpower is the surest way to a better life.</p> <p>Most major problems, personal and social, center on failure of self-control: compulsive spending and borrowing, impulsive violence, underachievement in school, procrastination at work, alcohol and drug abuse, unhealthy diet, lack of exercise, chronic anxiety, explosive anger.</p> <blockquote> <p>“The highest possible stage in moral culture is when we recognize that we ought to control our thoughts.” — Charles Darwin</p> </blockquote> <h1>1. Set goals</h1> <p>The first step in self-control is to set a goal.</p> <blockquote> <p>“The man who assumes success tends already to have success.” Norman Vincent Peale</p> <p>“On the whole, tho I never arrived at the perfection I had been so ambitious of obtaining, but fell far short of it, yet I was, by endeavour, a better and a happier man than I otherwise should have been if I had not attempted it.” — Benjamin Franklin</p> </blockquote> <h1>2. Make a plan</h1> <p>The monthly planners did much better and stuck with it much longer than the daily planners.</p> <p>Identify the next action for each thing on your todo list.</p> <p>The simple act of making a plan clears your mind.</p> <p>Set up your life so that you have a realistic chance to succeed.</p> <h1>3. One change at a time</h1> <p>The more things we try to change at once the greater the chance we will fail at all of them.</p> <p>If you’re a smoker, don’t try quitting while you’re also on a diet.</p> <p><a href="https://parkerklein.medium.com/11-habits-to-increase-your-willpower-f159f9def184"><strong>Website</strong></a></p>