5 ways to improve your willpower that will help to boost your productivity

Are you wasting your time procrastinating more than pushing yourself to get the work done? 

Do you struggle with sticking to the time limit for watching TV or playing games?

Do you feel frustrated when you fail to follow your diet plan? If your answer is Yes, that means that you are lacking willpower.

What is Willpower?

As explained by Kelly McGonigal, a Stanford psychologist and author of The Willpower Instinct, "Willpower gives you the energy and endurance to deal with challenges, the ability to persevere in the face of setbacks, and the strength to tolerate conflict or stress that might otherwise make us run away from goals or projects we care about."

With self-control and regular use, your willpower works like a muscle that gets trained, developed, and maintained.

How to improve your willpower?

1. Make goals and remember it

Make specific goals for a day or week, then work accordingly to achieve them. Your prompt desires might interrupt and tempt you to give in, and that's where you lose. To avoid those situations, you can keep a physical reminder like a note on the working desk, putting an alarm, etc.

Final thought

There is no shortcut to growing your willpower. Keep building it with the tips we've shared, and remember, you can achieve anything you set your mind to.

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