“Every time I want to eat ice cream I will think about my fitness goal, and instead work out, with enough time and careful planning, my desire for ice cream will be overpowered by my working out habit and I will (virtually) no longer struggle with my desire to eat ice cream.”
A common pattern with “willpower failure” is that part of you thinks the thing you’re trying to make yourself do is actually bad, and the solution is to listen to it. I think this is particularly common with food and exercise. Most people who have “willpower failure” that causes them to eat are actually just hungry, and successfully using willpower to prevent themselves from eating would hurt them.
So in my context, the belief that is the limiting belief may be a line of reasoning in which believing that I am successful and others will accept me even if I’m not is actually a bad thing?
I think there’s something to that. I think I’m afraid of complacency, but if I have success and acceptance, then am I really being complacent?
A common pattern with “willpower failure” is that part of you thinks the thing you’re trying to make yourself do is actually bad, and the solution is to listen to it. I think this is particularly common with food and exercise. Most people who have “willpower failure” that causes them to eat are actually just hungry, and successfully using willpower to prevent themselves from eating would hurt them.
So in my context, the belief that is the limiting belief may be a line of reasoning in which believing that I am successful and others will accept me even if I’m not is actually a bad thing?
I think there’s something to that. I think I’m afraid of complacency, but if I have success and acceptance, then am I really being complacent?
This was helpful, thank you.