You Have Enough Willpower
You're just using it to resist constantly instead of using it once to design an environment where resistance isn't required
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A good friend, let’s call him Michael, spent three years trying to get healthy.
Every morning he’d wake up determined. Today would be different. He’d resist the snacks. Skip the late-night ice cream. Ignore the chips in the pantry. He had willpower. He’d use it.
By afternoon he’d given in. By evening he’d eaten everything he’d promised himself he wouldn’t. By night he was wondering why he couldn’t just be disciplined like other people.
Then one Sunday he did something different. He didn’t try harder. He didn’t build more willpower. He just stopped buying the food.
Eighteen months later he’d lost forty pounds. Not because he suddenly became disciplined. Because he stopped needing to be.
