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The underpinnings of willpower are physiological. **There are many willpower traps we can avoid simply by taking better care of ourselves.** Your body plays a crucial role in your ability to exert self-control, so make it a priority. Focus on the fundamentals: good sleep, regular exercise, proper nutrition, and mindfulness. Get your body strong and your mind will follow.
I Have 10 Pieces of Willpower Wisdom to Share With You
Charlotte Grysolle
And this is why Wallace was wrong to say that “you have to be willing to look honestly at yourself and at your motives for believing what you believe, and to do it more or less continually.” You really can’t do that, which, I believe, he discovered: his ceaseless self-examination caused him ceaseless misery and contributed in a major way to his early death. Better to follow the principle articulated by W. H. Auden: “The same rules apply to self-examination as apply to auricular confession: Be brief, be blunt, be gone.”
By observing the words our mind is speaking to us, we are actively separating from our thoughts, getting them out in front of us, into view—creating an us and an it. In so doing, we’re shifting our perspective so we are now the awareness that sees the thoughts, while the thoughts become objects appearing in front of and within us.
Can't Stop Thinking
Colier, Nancy
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