If you want to get to the next level, you need willpower to make creative breakthroughs and steady progress. Don’t you? After all, willpower helps you to beat distractions and delay gratification to make wise choices. But willpower is limited. It gets depleted the more you use it and as the day goes on.

While you could do certain things to boost and improve willpower, you could also shape your environment so you don’t need it. Your situation and circumstances either encourage or discourage positive change.

In episode 31 of The Incrementalist show, you will learn:

1. The stages of change

2. Why willpower is not enough to overcome obstacles

3. The problem with decision fatigue and how to reduce it 

4. The benefits of imagining the future and future you when making decisions

5. The importance of making your commitments public and having support networks and accountability partners

6. The Pygmalion Effect, which means you rise or fall to the demands of expectations and situations

7.  How Forcing Functions put you on the hook for things that matter and help you create desired outcomes

8. Peak experiences allow you to stretch and grow beyond your limits

9. You usually need willpower to change your environment. But it’s really the environment that allows you to sustain the change.

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Dyan Williams
Check out the book: The Incrementalist, A Simple Productivity System to Create Big Results in Small Steps
Visit website: www.dyanwilliams.com
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