The Power of Will
by Willpower is the belief that you can control your behavior, and the commitment to act on that belief.
Feelings of insecurity, worthlessness and low self-esteem are treasures belonging to the weak-willed. Negative thinking prohibits you from reaching your highest potential. If you try to tackle a project and you experience a setback, and think, If I’m going to fail, why bother to move forward? This is negative thinking.
Each time you say you will but do not, you think less of yourself. You confirm that you do not have what it takes to get what you want. And if you think this way, you probably do not deserve it. And if you think you do not deserve it, of course, you will not rush out and try again.
This sort of negative thinking trashes willpower, and makes it almost impossible to start any action that might increase self-confidence and improve self-esteem. If you think you do not deserve to receive any more than what you have, you have no willpower or ambition to aim for something richer in life.
For instance, people who are clinically depressed have zilch willpower. They let their depression and weaknesses to immobilize them and to control their lives. Often the negative messages that run through their minds derive from wounds of the past. We all have them, but some people remember the past more than the present, therefore, too weak-willed to try to heal old wounds, and stop repeating the same failures.
Negative thinking is oftentimes associated with gambling, sex, alcoholism and drug addictions. The moment someone becomes addicted to a substance or compulsive behavior, willpower is ineffective, and without support, medical or psychological help, education and direction from someone experienced to help with such addictions, the addict will not change.
Moreover, willpower may be undermined by what is going on in people’s lives. Emotional distress, sadness, fatigue, loss, anger, anxiety, disappointment and other negative emotions are the biggest threats, and the culprits that will only weaken your sense of willpower if an individual refuses to deal with the negative emotions.
Focus on what you are getting rather than what you are giving up. Take pride in considering yourself a doer and not a rabble-rouser. Whatever your goals may be, tackle one goal first and then another. Pay attention to what you are doing and forget how much further you have to go. Take time to explore alternatives and plot out strategies for reaching your goals.
Spend time executing the power of will and you will accomplish more than not.
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