Any muscle in your body can be strengthened and pump up, if you regularly exercise it. So willpower can be developed if you regularly train it. The training of willpower involves performing self-control exercises. At the same time, they should be directed at what is given most heavily, but what should contribute to acquiring new, useful habits, increasing their self-esteem .
Exercise training for willpower
- To begin it is necessary with small, from easy tasks which will help to understand and feel, that such "a muscle of will". Any simple task can contribute to this, for example, giving up the habit of sitting, throwing your foot on your leg, opening the door with your right hand, reading the magazine from the first page.
- Now you can begin to form a habit to do not what you like and what you need. If the working day invariably begins with viewing your pages in social networks, then you need to give your word to do it at the end of the day and try to follow it. If you want to become more clean, start wiping dust every other day, etc. It all depends on what kind of skill is hardest given, but which is extremely necessary in everyday life.
- The method of training willpower includes volitional planning. It is necessary to compile a plan for the day, month, year and try to follow it clearly.
- Regular exercise will help to strengthen the will. They can be any, the main thing is a regularity in their performance. Alternatively, you can have a dog. After all, it will have to walk a few times a day, which will also promote the development of willpower .
Here are one of several options for training willpower at home. In order to strengthen self-monitoring, it is necessary to monitor what happens at the usual time "on the machine": the duration of the process of absorbing food and its quantity, the number of cigarettes smoked per day, the length of watching TV, etc.