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Willpower Is Not Enough: Why We Don't Succeed at Change
Willpower Is Not Enough Why We Don't Succeed at Change Author:A. Dean Byrd, Mark D. Chamberlain We've all known the struggle of trying to change. We grit our teeth, clench our fists, and exert all our willpower to overcome bad habits, attitudes, or lifestyles. And all too often we fail. — Why are most of us so weak? Why do we grapple with the same problems day after day, year after year? Willpower Is Not Enough g... more »ives a convincing and enlightening answer: we weren't meant to overcome weaknesses by willpower alone. In fact, willpower is actually one of the least effective weapons in our arsenal of change.
When we seek to change through willpower, we enlist the power of our conscious minds to help with our problems. But most problems of self-control are not problems of the mind. They're problems of the heart--problems of desire, feeling, and emotion. And when the heart and mind get into a battle, neither one wins.
Willpower Is Not Enough does more than explain why we don't succeed at change. It also takes us step-by-step through the process of enlisting the powers of the heart. It tells how to find the motivating power of the heart, how to recognize and nourish the good in the heart, and how to come to a mighty change in heart.
"Knowledge is not motivation," Elder Joseph B. Wirthlin has said. "Neither is logic. The springs of human action are inherently in the feelings, not the intellect."
Willpower Is Not Enough helps us discover the feelings of our hearts so we can finally resolve our problems with self-control. « less