Think Traffic — Build a Thriving and Profitable Audience for Your Website or Blog. Live and Work Anywhere | Location Independent. How to strengthen your willpower. 7 April 2012Last updated at 20:47 ET By Stephanie Hegarty BBC World Service Willpower is sorely tested at Easter, when temptation comes in abundance and is often coated in chocolate. But a new book suggests that people who exercise greater self-control are those who have greater success in life. Roy Baumeister seems to cut a good example of self-regulation.
The psychologist is sharply dressed, immaculately groomed and his calm, well-punctuated speech betrays a quiet confidence. "You might think that people with really strong self-control struggle through this grim existence, forcing themselves constantly to do the right thing," he says. "But that's not correct. In his book Willpower: Rediscovering our Greatest Strength, co-written by journalist John Tierney, he claims that willpower - the ability to control impulses and thoughts, and persevere with tasks - is a limited resource which is depleted every time we successfully resist temptation.
He believes willpower is a physiological resource. 33 Ways to Make More Time in Your Life For Music-Making. 1. Disconnect. Power down your computer–or if you absolutely need the thing for some reason related to your practice and studies, sever it from the internet by disabling wireless. 2. Banish Television. According to Nielsen, the average American watches thirty-four hours of television per week. Thirty-four hours of television!! That’s five hours a day. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33.
One more tip: music is a long-term game, so be kind to yourself. Think tortoise, not hare. Thank you for reading. Click to share this post: Six Keys to Being Excellent at Anything. I've been playing tennis for nearly five decades. I love the game and I hit the ball well, but I'm far from the player I wish I were. I've been thinking about this a lot the past couple of weeks, because I've taken the opportunity, for the first time in many years, to play tennis nearly every day.
My game has gotten progressively stronger. I've had a number of rapturous moments during which I've played like the player I long to be. And almost certainly could be, even though I'm 58 years old. During the past year, I've read no fewer than five books--and a raft of scientific research--which powerfully challenge that assumption (see below for a list). We've found, in our work with executives at dozens of organizations, that it's possible to build any given skill or capacity in the same systematic way we do a muscle: push past your comfort zone, and then rest.
There is something wonderfully empowering about this. Pursue what you love. Here are the recent books on this subject: