1. Increase your capacity for pressure: Learn how to manage stress :To start with, we need to manage our stress levels. Being under high levels of stress means that our body’s energy is used up in acting instinctively and making decisions based on short-term outcomes.
2. Get a good nights sleep : Adequate rest improves our self-control and provides an optimal environment for the brain to function. Rest reduces the body’s need for glucose, and it allows the body to make better use of what we have. Adequate rest is generally 7-8 hours a night for an adult, and 10-12 hours a night for a child. Self-control requires brain power, and when we are tired, our bodies generally don’t deliver enough glucose to our brains.
3. Meditate (for as little as 8 weeks) : Meditation has also been linked to increasing the reserve of willpower we have available, as well as improving attention, focus, stress management and self-awareness.
4. Be yourself : It takes an enormous amount of effort to suppress your normal personality, preferences, and behaviors. Not surprisingly, doing so depletes willpower. Psychologists found that people who exert this kind of self-control in order to please others were more easily depleted than people who held true to their own internal goldsan desires. When it comes to willpower, people-pleasures may find themselves at a disadvantage compared to those who are secure and comfortable with themselves.
5. Trust that it will get easier: We often struggle to stay engaged during difficult tasks because we imagine, sometimes unconsciously, that they will continue to be just as hard in the future. We feel defeated or hopeless and give up.
To combat that feeling, remember that your skill improves with practice. Appreciate that a task is difficult but don't tell yourself the story that it's always going to be difficult
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