Will power. We don't want to really look at that word as it looks like work! But what can one achieve without will power? Picture the child training to walk. If she didn't own the will power to keep going following the first few falls, she would be hopelessly walk lamely all her life. We grown-ups must draw near our own problems with such will power. What we believe is possible seems to be more and more impossible to us as we go through life. Most of us tend to put additional faith in our own failures than in our own successes.
Our minds work like a navigation program and however we program our navigation system becomes our own reality. A lot of what we observe may not even be what is in fact the case, but just the reality we see through the lens of our own principles. Think of the story of the man who was mistakenly locked into a refrigerated railroad car? He died after one night, even though the refrigeration was not functioning. Because he believed it was... his mind caused him to freeze to death.
If we have been unsuccessful before, we program that into our navigation system and the odds of disappointments in the subsequent venture multiply, depending on how we see the failure. If we persist upon looking at failure as the end of the road, then disappointments turns out to be a habit. But, if we look upon failure as merely a road that didn't succeed, then we can stay on the road until we achieve something. Where there's a will there's a way. This is true in most instances.
Developing will power is just altering your belief regarding your own willingness to follow your ambition whatever it may be. Take a mental inventory. If your judgements and ideas appear to see you as having no determination, then start working to change those thoughts.
At the same time you can build self confidence regarding your determination by maintaining small promises to yourself. Negative thoughts about yourself can be erased by creating up little achievements.
Similar to the child learning to walk, see yourself walking, imagine yourself accomplishing that which you need the willpower to accomplish, and you will soon be walking through the problems towards your goal.
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Jason Myers is a professional writer and he writes mostly about self improvement tips news. He's also interested in psychology advice websites.
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