Standing Up for Willpower
I would like to say a few words on behalf of the much maligned willpower.
Who has criticized this hard working quality? Me!
Willpower works 10 times harder than most attributes we own. The problem is its failure rate.
If effort won blue ribbons, willpower would always be the hands down winner. It isn’t.
So what are my glowing words about willpower?
You can’t thrive without it.
Willpower plays a crucial part in our accomplishments, but it’s not a marquee player, even though its PR agent would have us believe that.
Most people will not accomplish much until they overcome inertia. That’s the role of willpower.
If we think of accomplishment like an old fashioned bomb, it needs three things to ignite:
- The match
- The fuse
- The explosives
Willpower is the match.
The difficulty we run into is lighting match after match without cozying up next to a fuse.
Willpower is not a team player. It thinks it can do everything on its own. It can’t.
If you have hired willpower to get a job done, you will get buyer’s remorse. Even if willpower is able to get you what you want, it won’t last because willpower quickly loses interest. It’s on to the next match lighting fest.
Willpower is not a role model but a role player. If you are attempting to cast it in a starring role, there will be no bang at the box office.
There is a part of you that gets things done and it’s ably served by having willpower light its fuse.
If things are always grinding to a halt for you, you have put too much faith in the grindstone, or there’s too much grease on your elbow.
Willpower needs to do its work and then step back and let the process happen. Its constant meddling in areas where it has no expertise brings us little accomplishment and even littler peace.
I propose we give willpower what it’s looking for – recognition.
Recognize it will only take you so far.
All the best,
John
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