Developing Willpower V
In this final part of our Developing Willpower we present the fourth Developing Willpower exercise. This exercise is a little different, because the task involved will vary from reader to reader. The instructions you need to adhere to are as follows:
Developing Willpower Exercise #4
Every day for the next seven days, choose at least one important thing that you have been putting off doing and finally get it done.
On a purely physical level, the vast majority of people fail in life because they simply never learn to take action on things that they know they ought to do. This week, you will do at least seven things that you have been ‘meaning to do’ for a while but haven’t actually got around to doing. It could be obtaining a gym membership, exercising, making a certain phone call, writing a certain letter, clearing out the garage or any number of other tasks that you have been postponing for a considerable amount of time.
By taking action on the things which you specifically tend to procrastinate about, you will develop a greater ability to trust yourself. You will establish the habit of recognising a task that needs attending to and then following through to get it done. As a result, your self-esteem, self-confidence and sense of inner strength will all increase quite markedly.
Most people know what they need to do in order to change their lives, but they have never developed the will power required to put their knowledge to good use. By the time you successfully complete this exercise, you will join the ranks of the relative few who not only know what to do, but actually do what they know, and thereby consciously create the lives they desire.
You should note that you have considerable freedom to choose what you will do with this exercise. Choose only to do very easy things and your willpower will grow much less than if you were to choose to do quite demanding things. The more you challenge yourself this week, the stronger your willpower will become.
