Everyone can develop willpower: a few simple techniques
Productivity / / December 23, 2019
We constantly strive to get as much as possible and do everything that is possible. But now, we suggest you look at things more realistically and understand what is possible and what still can not be achieved by using your willpower.
Repeat after me: my willpower is limited.
Psychologist Heidi Grant Helvorson (Heidi Grant Halvorson) argues that our willpower is not always able to cope with such a difficult task - to resist the temptations. Heidi believes that it is always fully rely on our strength of will.
Roy F. psychologist Baumeister (Roy F. Baumeister) and writer John Tierney (John Tierney) wrote the book "Willpower: reopening the most powerful human ability." They believe that willpower can be compared with the muscles. And, like a muscle, willpower can be trained.
Despite the fact that our willpower is really not unlimited, there is good news: willpower can train. Here are some simple tips to help you do this.
1. Make the most difficult things in the morning
Experts believe that one of the best ways to cope with unpleasant and difficult chores - make them in the first place, right from the morning.
We all know that our energy, and with it and our willpower to go on the decline throughout the day. Therefore, if you set out to deal with all the difficult things in the morning, without postponing them indefinitely, you will avoid the most widespread and beloved human solutions - just to score on what do not I want to.
2. snack
This advice may seem paradoxical to those who coached his willpower to lose weight.
But if you eat something that contains little sugar, it will enhance your brain, which, in turn, is an essential condition to ensure that your willpower has been stable.
Baumeister and other researchers from the University of Florida conducted a study and found that when participants in the experiment tried to strengthen his self-control, they had lowered the level of glucose in blood. In the future, all of the following tasks, in which they also had to strengthen your willpower, people performed effectively, with lower productivity.
But when the participants included in their diet drink containing glucose, it was much easier to control your willpower.
To prove their theory, the researchers used a sugar-containing drinks, mostly various lemonades, but eventually came to the conclusion that the best drinks activates brain foods rich in proteins and complex carbohydrates.
3. Praise and cheered ourselves
Scientists from the University of California found that samosostradanie It is an important step on the path to self-improvement. But researchers from the University of Illinois say that what a person says to himself, is of great importance.
According to studies, if you do reassure yourself, it will greatly help you to increase your own productivity.
So the next time you need moral support in order to cope with a difficult task, simply tell yourself, "I'll do it."
4. take it easy
Say "calm down" - the most ineffective way to get someone to actually calm down. But if you want to train your willpower, you really have to be calm.
When we experience a lot of stress, we fall into a state of "autopilot": we act instinctively and do not think logically. This means that the mind and willpower we move into the background.
So do not let stress take over the top of you. Breathing and glass of water - the surest and easiest way to calm down.
5. sleep more
Numerous studies prove that when driving the car sleepy man, it's like he would be drunk.
According to the Road Safety Facility, drowsy drivers are to blame for one of the six car accidents with fatal consequences.
If a person is deprived of sleep, the state of his body equivalent to the state of the body of a drunken man. Believe me, in this state, you are unlikely to do anything useful, or to take any important decisions.
Not only do you physically feel overwhelmed, and you still will be unable to cope with stress, and any little thing can get you out of yourself.
So because of all the negative consequences that entails a lack of sleep, only one conclusion: in any case, do not deprive yourself of healthy sleep.
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