Why Will Power is Not Your Friend

Daily Boost Motivation and Coaching

Scott Smith

Health & Fitness, Education, Self-improvement

3.9 • 1.5K Ratings

🗓️ 28 March 2022

⏱️ 9 minutes

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Summary

When will you get yourself to do what you say you want to do? More people than you know lose sleep over that question. If that sounds like something you have experienced, you’re not alone. Almost everybody begins their journey when a thought pops into their mind. Then, day-to-day life keeps them busy, and they spend frustrating months fixin’ to get ready. You know, starting to prepare… so you can start to do… so you can do… and say you did. If that doesn’t work, you summon your friend, Will Power. Will is not a person, but more like a kind of friend that you don’t know why you keep letting into your life. They are a bit of a slacker, live rent-free in your mind, say they want to help, and never deliver on their promise. Will’s job description should read -- to force you to do things you say you want to do but can’t get yourself to do. When you give up, Will leaves. The good news is, there’s no need to force yourself to do anything. Achieving your biggest goals in life has nothing to do with Will Power. Instead, shift your mindset - “To act at your discretion without constraint.” That’s the definition of Free Will, Will Powers, good cousin. Use your Free Will to harness your excitement and choose the path of least resistance. Start making the smallest changes in your life. Those steps will lead to big results sooner than you think. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	How are you? Happy, happy, happy, happy Monday. Did you have a great weekend?
0:20.0	Are you excited about the week or are you kind of first and who?
0:23.0	Well, Monday morning is like, oh no, here we go again.
0:26.0	If that's you, we want to stop that. You should just be thrilled about every single day of the week.
0:30.0	And if there's something causing you not to be that way, then let's change it.
0:33.0	If you don't like it, do something else. A lot of what the show is here for is to talk to you and to do that.
0:37.0	Today, I'm also going to talk to you and to not using what most people do.
0:41.0	And that is your willpower, to force yourself to do something that you don't want to do.
0:47.0	We all do it occasionally, I guess. But to do it for things you really love, to change your life and ways you want to,
0:52.0	it makes no sense. So we'll talk about that today. You may like the show.
0:55.0	It is a daily boost from motivation to move.com stand up, take a step, repeat.
0:59.0	How long do you repeat? That's the world's simplest success recipe.
1:02.0	How long do you do it though? Well, the answer is you do it until you get what you want.
1:06.0	And that is really the core of this whole show. We just understand that life begins when you move.
1:09.0	And then at the very minute that I get you inspired sometime during the show today, something will happen.
1:14.0	You'll be up and running ready to go. You'll Scott said this and all fired up. Here we go.
1:18.0	And then tomorrow morning, you wake up and say, where was I? What was I thinking?
1:21.0	So this show is about that. It's about making sure that every single day that you decide what you want to do.
1:25.0	And then you make a little progress toward that just a day at a time. We'll get you there.
1:28.0	My name is Scott Smith. I am the founder and the chief motivating officer here at MotivationToMove.com.
1:33.0	Happy you're here today. Every Monday, I start the program asking you a very simple question.
1:38.0	If you haven't done this homework, then I'm asking you to do right now. You're really ought to.
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