How to strengthen your will power?
The will power physiology
This things need a will power to begin with, but they are gonna give you far more will power back.
- good sleep (very important)
- exercise (very important)
- meditation
- plant based diet (vegan) or low glycemic diet (spikes in sugar in the blood screws up how the brain uses energy)
Encouragement over criticism
If you broke will power you are more likely to break it again if after it you blame yourself and you are an asshole to yourself. Conversely, If you are self-compassionate you are more likely to not to break it again.
When we are feeling stressed out guilty and ashamed that puts as into version of ourselves that is much more susceptible to intermediate gratification temptation and anxiety. It is a biologically opposite state for your brain and body to remember you’re long term goals and other versions yourself than a current one.
Study: Stressed people who believed that the stress in harmful to them died the most often. Stressed people who didn’t believe stress is harmful died the least often.
Predict a will-power failure
- Study: people who wanted to exercise where told to write everyday how they will be failing it. Outcome: They were exercising twice as much than average.
- When planning on habit use the following script: Obstacle Name – How to prevent it? • How to get back on track? • When and where it is this most likely to occur?