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Willpower - Scientifically Proven Techniques to Increase Willpower

2014

How strong is your willpower? Are you often disappointed in your failure to resist your lower urges? Your willpower, controlled by your prefrontal cortex, can both be strengthened with use, just as can your body's muscles. See more...

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7 Science-Based Strategies to Boost Your Willpower and Succeed with Your New Year’s Resolutions

It’s that time of year when people make their New Year’s resolutions—indeed, 93% of people set them, according to the American Psychological Association.

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Yoga for Cultivating Willpower

Ask how to break a bad habit and just about everyone will tell you to use willpower. Let’s call it the “just say no” response.

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Willpower and the Psychology of Self-Control

If only you could control yourself. If you had more willpower, you could finally lose those last 10 pounds. If you had more self-control, you could finally stop procrastinating, save for retirement, stick to an exercise routine, and avoid various vices such as alcohol and cigarettes.

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6 Ways to Develop Greater Willpower and Discipline

Self-control and willpower are key ingredients for success. So how can you develop greater self-control and willpower? Science has the answers.

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How to Strengthen Your Willpower

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.

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This Article Is Scientifically Proven to Improve Your Willpower

New Year, new you… if only it was that simple. But it turns out scientists are discovering there are some mind tricks that can take your powers of self-control to the next level.

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The Psychology of Willpower: Training the Brain for Better Decisions

In 2011, 27% of the respondents of the Stress in America survey reported a lack of willpower as the greatest obstacle to change.

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Seven Tips to Increase Your Willpower

It’s the self-control to say “no” to too much eating, spending, video gaming, alcohol consumption and other indulgences that keep us from goals we’ve set. It’s something we all wish we had more of: willpower.

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How to Boost Your Willpower

A growing body of evidence indicates that willpower and self-control are essential for a happy and successful life.

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How to Increase Willpower and Be Mentally Tough

Learning how to increase willpower requires time.

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