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All of us have something we'll be happy to change. The intense desire for self-improvement and progress is natural. It is in our DNA. Regrettably, when it comes down to change, old habits are difficult to break, and it looks like we fall short more often than we succeed. For the things that we are struggling with, if often seems like our willpower is not quite sufficient to overcome them. What can we do in regards to this?


## Are we bound to live the same behavioral patterns of the past? ##


Can we genuinely enhance our willpower, and establish long lasting positive changes in our lives? The answer is a definite YES. Willpower is much like a muscle, and it becomes more robust with regular use.
Here are a few tips that’ll help you build your willpower


## Don’t keep yourself in a constant state of willpower depletion ##


Weight-lifting is a superb way to build muscle. However, you wouldn’t put in half an hour or so lift weights right before helping a friend shift the positions of his furniture because your muscles could be too tired to undertake the task.
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Neither would you devote hours each day lifting weights without any recovery time. This is the same for willpower. While prudently exercising self-control is a superb approach to building willpower, not giving yourself a break would deplete your resolve.


## Feed your brains with protein rich foods ##
Don’t miss meals. Our brains are our decision-making muscle, and its power to provide us with the needed willpower to make appropriate decisions is dependents on whether it is properly fed. So we need to always eat rich regular meals, preferably low-glycemic foods, nourishing proteins, veggies and complex carbohydrates so as to refrain from the glucose rush connected with sweets and simple carbs that instantly plummets.


## Get a good night’s sleep ##
Sufficient rest enhances our self-control and allows for an optimum environment for top brain performance. Rest decreases the body’s need for glucose, and it enables the body to make much better use of what we have. Sufficient rest is usually 7-8 hours a night for a fully grown adult, and 10-12 hours a night for children. Self-control demands brain power, and when we are fatigued, our system typically doesn’t supply sufficient glucose to our brains.
It's much easier to "give In" to pressures around you. There is a common saying that our willpower is the highest in the morning when we wake up. Because the willpower hasn't been "exhausted" throughout the day. That is why it's easier to stay with your weight loss goals in the morning, and towards nighttime, you feel burned out and are more likely to order a pizza.
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## Build healthy habits; you’ll need them anytime you’re stressed ##
Stress highly depletes willpower. When people are pressured and stressed out, they are likely to fall back on ingrained habits—whether they are beneficial or harmful. Typically, it is not a conscious choice. People fall back on old habits without thinking since they are in a stressed condition.


## One step at a time ##
Quite often, people throw in the towel not because they lack willpower, but because they come to feel overpowered by the enormity of the goal they need to accomplish. An excellent way to handle these overwhelming feeling is always to break the target into useful pieces and line them up in a range that guarantees success.


The great thing about this strategy is that it not just ensures success; it ensures that you will simply by no means put yourself in a state of willpower depletion.


Whenever you achieve each sub-goal, you'll gain a tremendous feeling of satisfaction and pride in yourself, which makes it much easier to undertake the next one. When you reach the last goal, you are very likely to feel a sense of abundance and robustness instead of the more common feeling of exhaustion.