The burger or the salad? The treadmill or the sofa? Spend or save?
Throughout the course of a single day, choices like these test our willpower repeatedly . . . and sometimes the choices we make can leave us feeling like a failure.
If you’ve ever made a vow to practice better self-control, you know how much of a challenge it can be.
According to Kelly McGonigal, PhD, willpower is trainable. @RuthBuczynski Click To TweetBut change is possible. According to Kelly McGonigal, PhD, willpower is trainable. She’ll show you how to get started by breaking apart the idea of willpower so you can see the skill sets you need in order to do difficult things.
Click on the video below to check it out – it’s just 4 minutes.
Strengthening willpower is possible, and knowing how to do it could be the catalyst your clients need to start making wiser decisions and meeting long-held goals.
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Have you ever helped someone struggling with self-control? How have you learned to exercise willpower successfully in your own life? Please share your comments below.
The mind isn’t constrained or segregated by one single capacity. It’s capacity is far reaching. The entirety of the minds work is identified with the entirety of its parts.
Self discipline is something which might be created from the multifaceted character anyway this isn’t completely decisive because of thought of the cerebrums work all in all.
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Hi,
Kelly, your approach to this topic is the same as a life coach or health coach would take. The ONLY thing that you added was a framework (Thanks).-a little joke-
When you worked with Ron Siegel you talked a little fast for me. Some of us as we age don’t process speech as fast as we did when we were younger. Your speed and prosody are right on now for me.
I really enjoyed your TED talk on STRESS.
Ruth-Thank You-This is what I wanted to do (Health Psychology/Psychiatry) 50 years ago. Your programs are very well constructed and of great value.
Yours,
Peter
Thank you.
can I access recordings of past webinars? Specifically Rewiring the Brain for Willpower?
I love all this information about the brain, please keep it coming.
This sounds like a great subject.
Thank you.
Mary
Thanks for updating the subject on self control and will power.
In real life I have explored a great length on improving self control of mind and body . My wife who was suffering from acute psychological disorder,with out any hopes. I struggled very hard in our early married life and it took almost a decade and half to bring her up to certain level, where later she can perform her household duties herself up to 80%. I have experienced my sellf i have a tremondous will power to practice and apply such strict measures as found necessary to perform desired activities.
I think there have been several factors that help me with with willpower. Certainly, meditation is one.
For me will power is often attacked by thoughts and feelings that burst into the here and now.
The meditation process I follow is RAIN. Now I am in the beginnings of recognizing and dealing with thoughts and feelings that come up outside of the specific meditation process. This helps me understand more about what’s going on. Let me give an example. I see myself as a “chocoholic” and some favorites are freshly baked Brownies UUUMMMMMM ! It takes a lot of control to not “just have a small snack” several times during the day. I have I also use Freud’s Id, Ego, Super Ego model to understand feelings and thoughts that bubble up. I also have a daily “fast walk” “jog” that helps me control my weight. Well, I think this is enough and hope that I have not wandered to far off the discussion path. May the Force be with you
Could these videos be uploaded through a service other than YouTube? – it has not been operating in Pakistan for months now!
Thanks a lot!
Hi Dee,
We’re looking into this. For now, we’ll upload our videos to Vimeo, which should be accessible from Pakistan. If you e-mail us at respond@gmail.com, we’ll be happy to let you know when they’re all set.
Thanks and best,
John
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Controlling one’s thoughts is the key to a satisfying existence. Your mind can be so scattered that nothing is fulfilling. Isn’t that what we all want? To be satisfied and fulfilled?
The budhists knew it all; we’re just catching up. Thanx.
This subject looks to interesting – both for me personally, and for my clients,