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• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
  
  - Vince Lombardi
• Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, “Engage!”
• Willpower provides an intensely powerful yet temporary boost.
• It burns out quickly, but if directed intelligently, it can provide the burst you need to overcome inertia and create momentum.
• Willpower is a concentration of force. You gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.

• The application of willpower includes the following steps:

  
  

  
  
  1. Choose your objective
  
  
  2. Create a plan of attack
  
  
  3. Execute the plan
• So you’d better use that willpower to alter the territory around you in such a way that maintaining momentum won’t be as hard as building it in the first place.
• you’ve used your willpower not to diet directly but to establish the conditions that will make your diet easier to follow.
• Willpower is unsustainable. If you attempt to use it for too long, you’ll burn out.
• a concrete example.

• Here are some previous blog entries that will give you even more ideas for modifying your environment:
  
  Environmental Reinforce of Your Goals
  
  Are Your Friends an Elevator or a Cage?
  
  Your Personal Accountability System

  
  

  Don’t use willpower to attack your biggest problem directly.

• The difference between a successful person and others is not a lack of strength, not a lack of knowledge, but rather a lack of will.
  
  - Vince Lombardi
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• Willpower is your ability to set a course of action and say, “Engage!”

  
  

  Willpower provides an intensely powerful yet temporary boost.

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• one-shot thruster. It burns out quickly, but if directed intelligently, it can provide the burst you need to overcome inertia and create momentum.

  
  

  Willpower is the spearhead of self-discipline.

• a concentration of force
• gather up all your energy and make a massive thrust forward.
• intensely
• boost
• thruster
• inertia
• momentum
• you may take your time implementing steps 1 and 2, but when you get to step 3, you’ve got to hit it hard and fast.
• Invasion
• thrust
• massive
• maneuver
• best way to use willpower is to establish a beachhead, such that further progress can be made with far less effort than is required of the initial thrust.
• implementing
• establish that beachhead — to permanently change the territory itself such that it’s easier to continue moving on. Use willpower to reduce the ongoing need for such a high level of sustained force.
• Willpower
• unsustainable
• Momentum
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• beachhead
• use that willpower to alter the territory around you in such a way that maintaining momentum won’t be as hard as building it in the first place. You need to use your willpower to establish a beachhead on the shores of your goal.
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• draining
• eventually
  
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• distract
• to establish the conditions that will make your diet easier to follow
• shores
• Don’t use willpower to attack your biggest problem directly. Use willpower to attack the environmental and social obstacles that perpetuate the problem. Establish a beachhead first, and then fortify your position (i.e. turn it into a habit, such as by doing a 30-Day Challenge). Habit puts action on autopilot, such that very little willpower is required for ongoing progress, allowing you to practically coast towards your goal.
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