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opposite of willpower is
discipline. How so?

Discipline comes from a place of
love. Discipline sounds like this, “I
love the way that food tastes, but
I love myself more.” Using
discipline feels great; you feel
empowered and crystal clear
about what you truly want. You

are unwilling to give up what you
want most for what your mind is
saying you want right now.
Conversely, when you are using
willpower alone, you are pissed
off at yourself, even after you
have made the right choice. You
feel imprisoned by food and

indebted to some old behavior.
Then three days later, you eat
something even worse than the
food you avoided to spite
yourself.

permanent change). We have to start

Why do so many of us face connecting more pleasure than pain
constant resistance when we try to healthy habits..
to do the right thing, and how can
we get ourselves to do the things
we know are good for our health You also say that before we
but that we have a hard time attempt to achieve anything, we
doing? must begin by having extreme
clarity about the outcome we
We face resistance because we want to create. Why is that step

haven’t yet done the inner work. so essential and will you give us
Humans are wired to seek pleasure an example?
only and we don’t like do anything
that we associate with pain. If we Knowing your “why” is about focusing
have a story about cooking or on your outcome, not the process it
exercising that has pain attached, takes to get there. An engaged
then we won’t ever be able to woman wanting to fit into her

consistently do those behaviors wedding dress is a perfect example.
(consistent behaviors equates to She has a clear why (outcome). She’s