How to Strengthen your Willpower

Willpower or your personal power takes centre stage to achieve anything you want and increases self control. Your willpower will benefit your health, self esteem and this will reflect in every area of your life.

Like muscles, your willpower increases when you exercise it. If you don’t get regular and intensive fitness, your self-control muscles become flabby. The opposite of willpower is addiction, the complete loss of self-control.

In our modern world today, research shows human beings are more addicted than we’ve ever been in the history of our species. Our addiction is distraction, another reflection of a lacking self-control.

Our minds are distracted constantly, from the internet, social media, advertisements, TV mass media and magazines highjacking our brains.

Science confirms that internet addiction affects the brain the same way alcohol and drugs affects our brains.

The human brain has amazing plasticity. We can purposefully create triggers causing automatic responses changing any situation we want, from dislike to love. You can train your brain the second you hear the alarm clock you feel pleasure at jumping out of bed, making that bed, and then immediately taking a cold-shower and then do an hour tough workout at the gym. We can train our brains to associate pain and pleasure to anything.

By reframe our brains to associate pleasure of staying in bed, into getting up and go do a workout at the gym.

There are a number of ways to increase your willpower, time to exercise your personal power.

One power method that is regular fasting from food and caloric beverage ingestion. Remove the junk, fast foods out of your diet and no alcohol on work days. Eating intermittently say 16/8 which means you can eat within an 8 hour period and no eating for 16 hours.

16/8 intermittent fasting will improve blood sugar control, boost brain function and enhance longevity.

Be aware of temptations the friends offering you a drink, just a small slice of cake, or some fatty fast food your personal power is to say no thank you.

Start with small increments, set yourself small tasks each day.

Write what you wish to do in a diary which is your habit tracker. When you keep repeating a task over and over again your subconscious imprints this into your brain and this task become a habit, a pattern and a behaviour making this task second nature to do.

You task could be regular exercise, eating clean, hydrating frequently with pure water, walking daily, meditating daily or losing weight. It was your willpower that kept you repeating the task and your self control had you show up, you kept going even on those days you wanted to just stay in bed.

Every decision you make is important.

Bad habits or anything just keep procrastinating over is a fast-track to erode and lower your self esteem — the root of which is a lack of self-control.

If you can’t control even yourself, what can you control? This is where choice is key and everyone has choice regardless of the circumstances.

If you are fasting, you are consciously choosing not to eat , even if you feel hungry, you can consider all the great things it’s doing for your body and health rather than how hungry you are.

Neuro-chemically, fasting and with exercise increases levels of catecholamines. Three commonly known ones are epinephrine (adrenaline), norepinephrine, and dopamine. Dopamine elevates your happiness and confidence while reducing your anxiety. So it’s a win win.

Fasting over 14 hours also triggers autophagy. Autophagy removing toxic proteins from the cells, increases energy, cleans out damaged cells and regenerates new healthy ones.