Increase Your Willpower With These 10 Scientific Strategies

What is willpower? It's a potent combination of courage, mental stamina and determination. Willpower is what gets us through. People with high willpower are driven to success, get more done, achieve greater success and their abilities stand out from the crowd. The good news is willpower can be learned and strengthened. In this video, Vanessa shares 10 incredibly powerful strategies to radically increase your willpower.
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0:00-1:20 Introduction
1:21-1:49 Step #1 - The Willpower Challenge
1:50-3:05 Step #2 - Self-Knowledge
3:06-4:41 Step #3 - Two Toned Brains
4:42-5:51 Step #4 - Gaming the System
5:52-6:57 Step #5 - Strengthen Your Muscle
6:58-7:59 Step #6 - License to Sin
8:00-9:02 Step #7 - “What the Hell” Effect
9:03-10:25 Step #8 - Your Future Self
10:26-11:04 Step #9 - Willpower Infected
11:05-12:52 Step #10 - Never Say “I Won’t”
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[@ScienceOfPeople]

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[@mannytorrez2138]

Do have a teaching about.....I like to learn I write notes I hear and see to learn but when comes to teach I forget or I freeze is that normal? I'm 42 what can I do to better myself :)

[@aryankashyap3117]

Miss can you please elaborate on handling the "what the hell" effect it is a serious issue for a lot of people including myself

[@goldensquirel]

Watching this at 6:55am is indeed my willpower 😁

[@Jarg555]

It’s 3am for me 👀

[@theEleMentalCrash]

I’ve been bunging your videos for a few days. It’s funny how close answers to our problems can be, thank you so much!

[@gauravsinghbedi6536]

Thank You Vanessa...God Bless you

[@wealthandwisdom2777]

Ma'am ,thank you so much for this video. All the best! And I pray for your safe and healthy life.

[@jessicacurbelo28]

Thank you for shearing these willpower tools:🙏🏻💙

[@walkerskii]

I'm so happy I'm subscribed to you I picked up a couple of wonderful ideas from you especially committing to something during a high willpower time of the day

[@nawfalshammari4579]

Thank you Vanessa ❤

[@rebeccahummel9091]

The most powerful tool I found to get the greatest positive "get it done" effect is finding videos that align with my goals and watching them when I feel weak or distracted - really helps to get back on course! Or just watch them to stay on course.

[@TereshaYoung]

I'm with you on that one Rebecca! 💯 You're showing great self-awareness in knowing how you can gain clarity when you're feeling stuck and also what works for you to keep you motivated and focused! 🎉 What also helped me to be committed to my goals, which I share on my channel is how my "why" (the reason for my goal) makes me fly! I find that you can't underestimate the power of "because" to keep us on track! 👍🏾 Keep up the good work! 💎💖

[@urieless175]

This is great counseling..I've been going thru alot of stuff now I'm just going thru something..this is helping me with my life so far now and I just started subscribing to your channel..my heart was racing but now is doing fine I have to say a mil thanks love

[@angelitaespinosa521]

Thank you! You are heaven sent!

[@ranugo]

Great tips, Vanessa! Thanks for sharing them!

[@Septumsempra8818]

Your vids have helped me on so many fronts, thanks. So Imma give you a tip from my field of expertise. If you're not particularly fond of working out for hours (unless it's a hike or something organic) and keeping in mind your body type, try out anything explosive for a bit, doesn't have to be powerlifting or anything, but you'll find a judo/wrestling class or anything where you have to move your center of mass rapidly will work wonders. You'll feel your body burning through your food even whilst not training. It sounds odd, but it's way more efficient than zumba or weights. s/o from South Africa

[@emc2928]

Very refreshing i needed this!

[@kryesumoore2997]

I really need this today thanks.

[@Lindsweightloss]

I love how clear you speak! Thank you for this video :)

[@tarifuddin9207]

Undoubtedly, same here...

[@akshitsingh5108]

I appreciate your knowledge regarding will power.

[@totoydelacruz4384]

Great topic!Thanks!

[@valentinacallegari3307]

Thank You!

[@yogawithbelle]

I love your video!! So much info and useful

[@zhanmike3406]

Very helpful and useful, I enjoy watching your videos, this one is especially very good, kudos !

[@dhirajkadam2469]

Grateful

[@guitard1280]

This is fantastic. I think willpower is something for which the speaker has a native talent plus years of getting even better at it.

[@antoniodossantos5960]

Hello Vanessa...Thanks

[@solomon4782]

I love 💓 the way u talk 😘 Solomon from Eritrea 🇪🇷

[@himanshuusain]

Thankyou❤️💕

[@alifarooqrajpoot]

Brilliant 💯🎉

[@davewarwicker2512]

I read three books on this recently - so was pleasantly surprised by how many ideas here that were still new to me.

[@sureshkssreedharan456]

Vanessa your great

[@hussainmohammad2244]

Thank u very much madam

[@sharmilamv9606]

Very useful and inspiring 👏 👍 👌

[@invincibleshot.7912]

Tremendous ❣️

[@anesit]

I LOVE YOU VAN SO MUCH 😭😭😭UOU YOU ARE MAKING CHANGE TO MY LIFE

[@sankalparora9261]

Amazing stuff. PS : I love the intro for the videos.

[@lamouralice4533]

Really want to learn about it

[@BeOutstanding]

Great Content Thank You Vanessa Musc Remove distraction or small Dec Do hardest thing fir Just do

[@richarddavis2791]

Thanks for the book report

[@ScienceOfPeople]

Any time!

[@64maxpower]

I love your work

[@ScienceOfPeople]

Thank you! I'm glad to know you enjoy the content! =)

[@montygill2835]

Great video

[@andywest6113]

I love your videos

[@radlyn7234]

Great video !!! I love how you explain things. However, I would prefer that you give examples that are not related to food and desserts, not everyone has this problem, I personally don’t, but I do have an issue in procrastinating and committing to my goals.

[@mistersimorgh1537]

Same thing here

[@TereshaYoung]

I totally agree! 💯 I've found that aiming for perfection can lead to 'analysis paralysis' where I over-think a situation so that a decision or action is never taken or I procrastinate! 🙈 So I instead focus on taking progressive steps towards achieving my goals rather than striving for perfection 👍🏾 What also helped me to be committed to my goals, which I share on my channel is how my "why" (the reason for my goal) makes me fly! I find that you can't underestimate the power of "because" to keep us on track! 👍🏾 All we can do is our best! Keep going! 🌟

[@prabalbhardwaj3777]

Alas! I found your channel thanks mam

[@honeybunnybunny1958]

Girl you are heaven sent

[@melissazabower339]

I think something missing from this list of strategies is talking about motivation. Intrinsic versus extrinsic. I have no internal motivation. None. Should I do this or that? Sure, but when I don't, I feel no shame. There is nothing pushing me to do it. Unless someone is giving me a score or a grade or a paycheck, there is no reason for me to do it. Any strategies to help with that? Thanks :)

[@Surajkumar-pp6co]

what one thing you could do right now to have greater success? I should fix one goal and work on that like Arjuna. what one thing you could stop doing right now to improve your quality of life? Stop procrastinating my decision taking process.

[@antoniodossantos5960]

Achievement is a lot of work

[@18818]

Excellent! .... Thanks! :D Vanessa, there are 20 countries that speak Spanish that could benefit from your KZbin videos, would you please add subtitles in Spanish so we can share you videos to those who don't speak English!

[@ShashankManiRai]

"Saved to watch later"

[@BrittanyLemonade]

What is the name of the yellow book she introduced at the beginning of the video??

[@BrittanyLemonade]

Got it got it got it lol

[@pearatree]

What if you don't view your future self like other people... but opposite... which gets you down?

[@EmpressofChrist]

💞

[@Goldwaterflow]

She said Purple bicycle i couldn't stop picturing even after the end of the video loo

[@TereshaYoung]

Hahaha! Me too! 😂😂😂

[@greggillson388]

Schedule ice cream before bed into your calendar. That way it's not a loss-of-willpower decision.

[@honeybunnybunny1958]

Future me is now and i let myself down

[@cssoversimplified]

I want more positive people I don't want negative people

[@TereshaYoung]

Totally agree Khushlim 💯 Nobody needs or deserves negative relationships and friendships. If possible, can you see if you can limit the time you spend with negative people and instead surround yourself with those who are going to lift you higher? 🤷🏽‍♀️💎💖

[@rajvirtanvi7109]

I noticed you wear blue in max of your videos. Is there a science behind that or is that just random?

[@geniuswith0iq486]

💝💌

[@nathanbanks2354]

Anyone else think of a purple elephant instead of the purple bicycle?

[@christophernice5844]

Hello

[@wasteyourlife7373]

I binge eat ice cream regardless

[@abcjme]

2:35 the “dunning¨kruger effect” is much more general than this

[@honeybunnybunny1958]

Ughh I’m so guilty to rewarding myself with sin

[@benjaminpeterson6619]

please keep clean language..

[@jameshumphries5059]

You need some with your diet. You’ve gain led some weigh.

[@benergy100k2]

You need to give that advice to your mother and the overweight uncles and women in your life. Vanessa is only here to help us about our ability to improve ourselves but not to be one of those skinny, starving mulnutrited women you see in magazines. She's not here to satisfy your desires and she's already happily married.

[@benrussell727]

she just had a kid

[@jameshumphries5059]

ben russell - I know. It’s no excuse though

[@jameshumphries5059]

BEN. W. K. - I get that but you can’t really do a video on willpower if your overweight. Practice what you preach me and my family are not over weight or too skinny it’s call be at a healthy weight and that’s what I want for her.

[@back5594]

Bruh

[@bronxlords]

WILL POWER REQUIRES NONE OF THESE

[@irishchocolate3872]

The reason we want to automatically do what we are forbidden to do is found in the Bible. It is part of our sin nature.