Girlfriends, episode number 327, How to Increase Your Willpower.

Hello and welcome to Girlfriends. I'm Danielle Bean. I'm a wife and a mom and I'm on a mission to help you.

Know your worth as a woman so you can find peace, balance, and joy and family living. This week,

I'm talking all about how to increase your willpower.

Everybody needs help in this area. Let's get going.

Hey, girlfriend, how are you? Thank you so much for being here. I love being able to connect with you right here on the Girlfriend's podcast. Thrilled, if you're joining me for the first time, I want to say welcome. Thank you so much for checking it out. I hope you're going to want to stay and become an ongoing member of the Girlfriend's Community.

Before we dive into today's topic, I just want to remind people of the availability of my newest book from Ascension Press, Whisper Finding God in the Every Day.

It is available on Audible.

I just had an interview, a pre-recorded radio interview this morning where the host was asking me

about it and didn't know that there was an audible version available. So I wanted to make sure that

I'm shouting that from the rooftops because I know a lot of people really like to listen to books on

audio. And you know what? This summertime is a great time to dive into this book's contents.

If you're not familiar with the contents of Whisper, it's a book about, like the subtitle tells you, finding God me every day, where I share

some of my own stories, my own struggles, my own triumphs in connecting with God in just everyday ways,

little ways that we might not pay much attention to, we might not notice or really value if we're not being deliberate

about noticing that God is always seeking to connect with us in the small joys, the small

sorrows, the trials, and the little challenges that we face every day in our relationships

with other people, in our work, that God is always present, and he always is looking

for that connection with us. So in the book, I share some of my own stories, but in the hopes

of encouraging you to look for God in your stories, look for the ways that God is trying to connect

with you. And you know what, the summertime's a great time to do that. A few episodes back

we talked about ways to savor the summer, ways to really slow down, pay attention, be present in

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