Gain Self Discipline, Willpower, Self-Control And Resilience

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Gain Self Discipline, Willpower, Self-Control And Resilience

Coursera · Intermediate ·🚀 Entrepreneurship & Startups ·3w ago
Conquer and reverse compulsive behaviors that damage and undermine all your life's hard work by gaining more discipline and willpower. Become more resilient to small daily failures, and gain mental fortitude that will make you stronger for the rest of your life. SELF DISCIPLINE IS A TOPIC EXAMINED BY THE GREATEST THINKERS IN HISTORY Great emperors of Rome, philosophers of ancient Greece, great military thinkers, and modern scientists have all wrestled with the question of how we can all improve our lives and the lives of people around us by becoming more disciplined and gaining more willpower. Over many centuries, they have collectively come up with a number of ideas which I boil down for you in this course, so you don't have to read thousands of pages of textbooks. USE MINDFULNESS TO GAIN WILLPOWER AND SELF DISCIPLINE When you are more mindful about what you are currently doing, you will make better moment-to-moment decisions, and not give into compulsive behaviors. You can always takes few extra moments and rethink the decision you are about to act on, and reconsider whether your behaviors will aid or damage your overall effort. The act of being mindful and imagining two possible outcomes is often enough to gain the willpower and self discipline you need to do the right thing. DON'T LET SHORT-TERM, COMPULSIVE DECISIONS DERAIL YOUR EFFORTS Compulsive behaviors and rash decisions tend to be quite damaging. They can range from food choices to exercise choices to business decisions to even choices of whether to get angry or not, and how to best handle potentially threatening situations.  MANAGE STRESS IN ORDER TO GAIN MORE WILLPOWER AND DISCIPLINE Short-term stress isn't considered bad. It can even be helpful to give us energy and focus to take on immediate challenges. But when stress reaches the point of overwhelm, we tend to fall into coping mechanisms that tend to be undesired behaviors that we aren't as mindful about. In fact, mindfulness itself becom
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