How is your willpower doing today? Maybe we got out of bed and the sun was shining and were feeling great, and we went to the kitchen and had a nice banana and a piece of toast and that filled me up and it felt good. So I headed off to work and I had an apple in my bag for lunch but ended up stopping on the way there at the familiar fast food outlet and tanked out on you know what.
The thing is, that I can have a good plan but when I’m on my way I somehow get distracted and I end up doing the thing I totally don’t want to do. One way to look at it could be that I’ve done it that way in the past. It may be a habit that I’m just not noticing. If it is then I can do something about that, maybe I could go to work a different way or change something in the thing that’s happening and do something different. In order for me to have willpower I have to give myself a way to do it. And the easiest way to do it is the one I want to choose. If I don’t like it I’m probably going to fail. I want to make it easy on myself and I’m the one that can do that.