The Limited Reserve of Willpower and New Year's Resolutions
Enhance Your Willpower and Reach Your Goals Robert Hatch, owner of Human Business Works , a business coach, and an author, sent me some advice this morning on making and achieving New Year's Resolutions. I can sum it up with a quote from Wayne Dyer: "Once you begin working on your problem areas with small, daily, success-oriented, goals, the problems will disappear." What I like about Hatch's iteration of the way you must operate to reach a specific goal is the acknowledgement that we only have a certain limited reserve of willpower. He is so in to the idea, he eats the same thing for breakfast every morning. It limits the drain of will power and reduces, by one, the decisions he must make as entrepreneur through the rest of the day. Ok, not me. But, interesting. For the science on willpower, take a look at this Stanford School of Medicine blog . Two things can enhance your reserve of willpower: Meditation and regular exercise, partly because