Standing Up For Willpower

Willpower gets a defense from one of it's biggest critics: John Morgan. Find out the upside of will power in this mini podcast.

Grasshopper Notes are the writings from America's Best Known Hypnotherapist John Morgan. His podcasts contain his most responded to essays and blog posts from the past two decades. 

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Most of the John's writings revolve around self improvement and self help. They address topics like:

• Mindfulness
• Peace of mind
• Creativity
• How to stay in the present moment
• Spirituality
• Behavior improvement

And stories that transform you to a wider sense of awareness that presents more options. And isn't that what we all want, more options? 

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Transcript

Standing Up For Willpower

I would like to say a few words on behalf of the much maligned topic of willpower.

Who's been criticizing this hard working quality so often? Me!

Fact: Willpower works 10 times harder than most attributes we own. But the problem, isn’t its effort; it’s 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 won’t accomplish much until they overcome inertia. That’s the role of willpower.

If we think of accomplishment as an old fashioned bomb, it needs three things to ignite:

1. The match
2. The fuse
3. The explosives

Willpower is the match.

The snafu 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've hired willpower to get a job done, you’ll 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 event.

Willpower is not a role model, but a role player. If you’re attempting to cast it in a starring role, there’ll 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.

But 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