On the other hand, a person that is too arrogant and driven to power can be annoying. Progress should be done in a humble manner (sometimes).

I think the willpower comes in when it all seems too hard. When the going gets tough. When you feel that you’re knocking your head against the wall and all you really want to do is stop. That’s when the willpower has to be there to push you on and force you to keep doing the things you have to do to achieve your goals.

Figure out what you desire, REALLY desire. Then identify what steps you need to take to achieve what you desire. Then start stepping!

The great thing about yoga too, is regular practice can increase your willpower

@Yaro
is that willpower same as commitment ?….

Enjoy the moment,

Teri
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Oh, and maybe the most important thing in your journey to success: your circle/entourage. One of my friends told me that “People are either wind in your sails or anchor on your tail.” You need to find the windy people and ignore the anchor ones. I found out it’s one of the most difficult thing to do when you want to start something new.

It is often easy to give up because we are scared but to me that is true test of someone’s dedication to the success of a project, a business, a blog, a child.

Will power also goes the other way…not only to do something…but to not to do something that would be detrimental to your business, health, family, etc.

Again, nice post!

I have NEVER lost the excitement and fervor of my first day blogging. I live to blog! Every day I bounce out of bed, eager to blog and pursue my goals and dreams! I can’t wait to comment on topics close and dear to my heart!

It’s SO FUN TO BLOG!! It’s SO INTERESTING TO READ OTHER FINE BLOGS, including your absolutely dazzling, sizzling blog, Yaro!!!

I really enjoy this spectacular blog!

To blog, you’ve got to have PASSION. You’ve got to learn to slog through the down days, slog through those tough days to VICTORY!! Man, I enjoy blogging so much that my sheer PASSION for blogging just pulls me through all the tough times! You gotta have PASSION, PERSISTENCE and PERSEVERENCE, and a good dose of PATIENCE.

Most of all though, what you really need, is a love of blogging, and a serious burning passion for your topic and niche.

Without that, you might as well delete your domain off the server and slowly back away from the keyboard.

Ready………Set……….BLOG!!!!!

Personally what drove me to getting success in endeavors I have been successful was passion. Passion is what gave me the “willpower” to keep stepping over sometimes impassable hurdles. And passion is what got me there in the end.

I also know, that my failures are directly related to the lack of passion I had for the cause.

And knowing this makes my blogging and freelancing journey exciting day by day as I slowly step toward success.

by the way Yaro, didn’t think you were a Yogi.

Monika

Once you know your purpose,you will be able to focus on projects that will help you fulfill your purpose in life.

So,the big question to ask yourself is,what is my purpose in life? It’s the beginning of the success journey.

I have already started to see with my blog the effects of being consist and it has motivated me to keep going – now I just have to apply it to other areas of life

The idea was that willpower was a short term force to call upon, while motivation was a longer lasting, and also deeper, source. Willpower is used to force yourself to do something, to break through a mental block or fear, while motivation provides more of a “burning desire” to do it despite the fear. Therefore, the short term nature of willpower means it can be exhausted fairly quickly. While on the other hand, motivation continues to act upon us and pull us to toward our goals.

Yaro, to me, it sounds like your definition of “willpower” rolls up my distinction from “motivation” as part of it. To that end, I agree that we need to call upon some inner drive or desire to overcome fear and keep on trucking. And, I appreciate the reminder to call upon this reserve as I’ve just started out with blogging.

There is a man called Tom Venuto who is a bodybuilder and he wrote a book about fat loss which in which he talks about willpower. The first chapter os his book is all about goal setting – having a deep and clear vision for what you want to achieve.

When you know what you want and you want it with an sbsolute burning desire then you don’t need willpower. But when you are doing something because you feel you have to or you want it but not *that* much, that’s when willpower comes into play.

When you totally focus on your goal, you want it badly, you know whay you want it, you think about it all day long then all those little setbacks are just mere blips. Well anyway, that’s how I like to think of it because it makes me feel better about not having much willpower!