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.
But change is possible. According to Kelly McGonigal, PhD, willpower is trainable. She’ll show you how to get started with this simple and effective technique.
Click on the video below to check it out – it’s just 3 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.
To learn how to rewire your brain for willpower, click here.
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.
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
NICABM Staff
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,