How to boost your willpower to achieve your goals

1. How to Boost Your Willpower to
Achieve Your Goals

3. Author Kelly McGonigal of “The Willpower Instinct:
How Self-Control Works and Why it Matters,” tells
TODAY’s Matt Lauer how to keep your New Year
resolutions.

4. Tips to Boost Your Willpower
"When people believe that willpower is
fixed and limited, their willpower is easily
depleted. But when people believe that
willpower is self-renewing — that when you
work hard, you’re energized to work more;
that when you’ve resisted one
temptation, you can better resist the next
one — then people successfully exert more
willpower.“
from New York Times Willpower: It’s in Your Head

5. Get at least 6 hours of sleep.

6. Avoid temptation when you’re
willpower isn’t well charged.

7. Brush your teeth with your non-
dominate hand.

8. Find a willpower role model.
Source: http://healthylivingforyou.tumblr.com/tagged/fitspo

9. Choose a long-term goal that you’re
passionate about
You need willpower to make a
change -- start a new diet or an
exercise program -- but once you
get some momentum going, you
need grit to sustain the change
and make it part of your lifestyle.

10. Resources on Motivation and Willpower
are available on Pinterest --
http://pinterest.com/jmcnichol/