How To Increase Willpower: 10 Secrets From Research

• Practicing a little willpower every day increases self-control over time.

• For immediate results: tighten your muscles, sit up straight or cross your arms. Or just think about money.

• Get enough sleep and don’t miss meals. More shut-eye will stop you from wasting time on the internet. Skipping breakfast can lead to murder.

• Context is key. Those around you exert more influence on your behavior than you think.

• Don’t get cocky. Thinking you have great self-control leads to failure. Sometimes little temptations are harder to resist than bigger ones.

• Saying “I’ll never do that again” makes you even more likely to do that again.

• The key to resisting temptation is postponement. 

• Improve your posture and you’ll improve your willpower. Exercising self-control in one area of life tends to improve it in all areas of life.

• Want something that can help you increase willpower? Buy a mirror.

• Self-discipline better predicts success than IQ.

For more tips on how to increase willpower from the leading researcher in the field, click here.

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