MAINTAINING YOUR WILL POWER IS KEY

AMANDLA: Make it possible

All of us aspire to change certain things about ourselves. It could be losing weight, stop smoking, stop drinking or improving or gaining a skill that will help you go further in your studies and career. The challenge for most people is maintaining the will power to achieve those goals.

Every person is capable of changing, whether it is for the good or the worst. We all know people that have lost weight, that are over achievers, given up smoking or drinking and even people who have completed their university degrees. The question is how did they do it? How did they maintain their will power?

I have a friend who is a basketball player for the University of Johannesburg first team. Her ability to be consistent is a great lesson that I/ and all should learn. She trains whenever scheduled to train. Successful sports people do not negotiate training time they just do it, whether they feel like it or not.

They are very much disciplined, they do not listen to their feelings and they tell their bodies what to do, not the other way around. You need to give yourself instructions that you could exercise and put into action. Those activities will help you develop or improve a skill.

Perfecting an art begins with knowing what you want and creating goals. Do not just have goals, have visions as well. Having goals is one thing but knowing what you want is another. Automatically motivation builds up, helping you getting over all your fears and insecurities.

After identifying your goals, identify strategies that will help you to achieve your goals. They will be the things you are committed to do. Strategies need to become habits and a pattern of behaviour.

We all may go through tough times; not understanding what life is all about and what it wants from us. Have self-control and the will power to make it.