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.