3 Easy Tips To Build Your Will Power Muscles

3 Easy Tips To Build Your Will Power Muscles

3 Tips To Build Your Will Power Muscles

1. Always remember: Out of sight, out of mind. If you don't have it readily available, you won't eat or drink it. I recommend not buying it, but if you have a family that might not be an option. Instead, post a picture of a dress or jeans you want to wear on the cabinet or the refrigerator. Or write your goal on a yellow post it note (and read it every day) and then stick a blank post it note on the trigger food. Doing so will program your mind to think of your goal every time you see the post it note.

2. Plan for the inevitable: Somehow a trigger food will find its way in front of your face and you'll go to town. It happens. But will you sulk after and go on a downward spiral? No, that's not you--maybe the old you, but not the current you.

Instead, develop a plan right now to pull you out of that spiral. What's one thing that physically makes you feel better?

•Music? Go put on your headphones and take a walk!

Be ready with your plan so when you do slip up, you have a way to regain control and steer back on course.

3. Treat yourself: CHEAT! You can bet your right arm that every time I get ice cream or a dessert, there is peanut butter in it. And every so often I will crush a ton of peanut butter. Shoot, I deserve to! And you do, too. Plan to enjoy the food you are taking away, whether once a week or every few weeks. You'll notice life is actually better without it all the time because you've grown leaner and feel better about yourself.

Often times we want to completely remove ourselves from the obstacles that stand in our way. Many times we should, but make sure to focus more on the good habits you are trying to build--the process as opposed to the obstacle. When you focus on the process, you can learn. And when you learn, you can truly change and grow.