Summary: Always promise to do something good for yourself but then never follow through? Find yourself reaching for that doughnut or that extra beer when you know you shouldn’t? Having trouble stopping yourself from indulging in a habit or behavior you know is bad for you — but you just can’t stop yourself? Accessing and utilizing your willpower can be a tricky business; it’s also a skill that can be trained. This episode explores how willpower works and how you can start strengthening yours — through methods that are 100% free — today. In this episode I covered: willpower definition the parts of your brain involved in willpower how willpower works what can stop willpower from working two easy (and free!) ways to train willpower Plus, I answered a listener's question about how to be in a relationship with someone whose past keeps impacting the present. Change quote of the day: ".... things become possible if we want them bad enough." ― T.S. Eliot
