Hi
Willpower is often touted as the reason we succeed or fail at many things
in life.
After years watching clients succeed and improve their life, there seems to be more to it than this.
Studies have been done on willpower resulting in original theories years ago that it is a finite resource that you can use up, those that have more, succeed more.
Maybe it is time to reframe this?
Willpower is really only there as a 'course correction' mechanism to our lifestyle.
Kim and I share a fundamental belief that successful interventions to our
clients health occur when habits are formed to drive results...NOT a constant shifting of goals for this that and the other that creates complexity. The more complex a process the easier it is to find a reason to not succeed.
Basically...making health a 'product' of a lifestyle containing good nutrition and plenty of movement reduces the need to apply willpower as it all just becomes
'what you are' and 'what you do'
Maybe think of willpower as the booster rocket to guide a space ship, whereas the huge thrusters to get the thing into space are the well rooted good habits of a healthy lifestyle? The little rockets are there as a course correction at a minor glitch, not to drive your life. Remember Apollo
13?
