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Leaving your options open sets you back

Penelope Trunk

And I have a blog that allows me to feel like a published writer every time I hit the publish button. We have a limited amount of willpower, and if all our options are open, we have to use our willpower constantly. We are much better off removing choices and creating routines that preserve our willpower.

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How to create micro-habits in order to reach macro goals

Ayoa

This happens not because these people are failures with poor willpower, but because these undesirable behaviours are ultimately habitual. I know what you might be thinking: “If all I have to do is replace the bad habits with positive ones, why start small? But unfortunately, it’s rarely entirely true. Ruled by habit. Why micro-habits?

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100 Amazing Friday Quotes to Get Your Weekend Started

Vantage Circle

And the happiness of what awaits us after Fridays is the cherry on top. No matter what kind of profession you have, studies show that humans are the happiest on Friday. Every Friday, I like to high-five myself for getting through another week on little more than caffeine, willpower, and inappropriate humor. Nanea Hoffman.

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On the Job by Anita Bruzzese: Stop Putting It Off: Deal With.

On The Job

Helpful information and advice from Americas favorite workplace columnist About Anita Blog Books Syndicated Column Interviews Career Links Contact Wednesday, June 2, 2010 Stop Putting It Off: Deal With Procrastination Once and For All Ive been writing my Gannett workplace column for about 17 years. What happened? You procrastinated.

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Overcome the willpower myth

Penelope Trunk

I've been reading a lot about willpower to find out how to get more. Which is, of course, what I do. Which is, of course, what I do. But I have watched the farmer for a few years now, and I see that he substitutes three things for willpower which allows him to seem to have willpower beyond his actual willpower reserve.

IT 111
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Social media rules for Jews on High Holidays

Penelope Trunk

I’ve read that people who have willpower don’t actually have willpower. Rather they make decisions for themselves that have clear parameters and then they don’t reconsider them, so those people don’t need any willpower. It’s part of being Jewish to have a workaround for everything. Maybe live?tweeting

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A celebration of failed New Year’s resolutions

Penelope Trunk

” Then come the academics weighing in with their research about how resolutions take willpower and how we only have a finite amount. Because I have limited willpower so I use it only for important things. You can use all that extra cash to buy last year’s books by academics about what makes resolutions stick.

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