Sentences with phrase «through willpower»

Through willpower, sacrifice and an exceptional ability to make the most out of limited resources.

But when FrameWorks researchers investigated public thinking on this topic, they found that the public tended to assume that it didn't exist, that it was a matter of controlling one's emotions through willpower, or that its biological components meant that there's nothing that can be done to improve children's mental health.

MYTH: A child can manage a psychiatric disorder through willpower.

People will shift away from trying to change their bad habits through willpower and discipline — like New Year's resolutions — and increasingly focus on changing their physical habitats (bedrooms, kitchens, offices, and gyms) in ways that make it easier to be healthy without requiring discipline.

Alcoholics Anonymous, one of the largest treatment providers for addiction, frames the disorder as a kind of character defect — one that can be fixed and forgiven through willpower and spirituality, not science.

The idea that a morbidly obese person can achieve a healthy weight through willpower alone is outdated, according to Dr. Howard Simon, director of bariatric surgery at Upstate University Hospital.

Third, the minister can arrange for him to get acquainted with an experienced and accepting AA member who may serve as a bridge to feeling at home in an AA group [In a study of factors which produce «readiness» for affiliation with AA, Harrison M. Trice discovered that alcoholics with the following characteristics tend to relate effectively to AA: Before contact with AA, they often shared troubles with others, had lost drinking friends, had heard positive things about AA, had no relative or friend who had quit through willpower.

Trying to re-fashion human nature through willpower is a doomed project - particularly in the formation of priests.

Trying to change behavior through willpower alone rarely works in the long term.

Not exact matches

While a reserve of willpower can get you through a lot, there will be nothing to draw on if you do not take time to rest.

He made it through the first days without too much trouble — sheer willpower got him through.

I'm really curious how you think that you broke some sort of natural law through sheer willpower and that apparently you only got one shot and you used it up when no one was looking...

Maybe you have more willpower and wisdom than I do, but I can't imagine sorting through the deep complexities of your pain without help.

And yes, we are to grow into Christlikeness, but not by our own effort and willpower, and definitely not through legalistic sets of rules and lawkeeping.

There are no cheat meals or free days on the Paleo diet because it doesn't bar you from having your favorite foods or use a ton of willpower to make it through your day or week.

Sometimes when I just don't have the willpower to go spiraliser crazy I just chuck the butternut squash through the food processor to shred it.

This in itself implies that virtue is something that must be built through some sort of power play of ideas, state action, community willpower etc.) The question then becomes through what means do we define what is virtuous?

It's hard to just drive culture change through simple willpower alone.

Her willpower drove us all on through the privatisation of state assets; council houses first and then the nationalised industries: British Telecom, followed by gas, electricity and water, though strangely there are few cartoons on this.

We will always have the junk food cravings, sometimes reinforced by a holiday or going through an emotionally stressful time in your life, sometimes fading in the background during a period of special motivation and willpower.

If we see ourselves as someone who never follows through or that we have low willpower or don't deserve good health, we won't get it (or at least not for long).

You spend the first part of your day actively using your willpower to get things done and the second half of your day relying on habits to guide you through the rest of your tasks.

«Dr. Roy Baumeister proposes that willpower operates very much like a muscle and gets fatiguing through repeated use,» Kayleigh Pleas, a positive psychology coach, explains.

When you slowly build up your discipline and your follow - through, and you make what you do into a solid habit that you don't have to really think about and debate in your mind all of the time... that's when the magic happens, and when you rely less on willpower and more on your overall momentum to easily keep going.

We try to muscle through using willpower which is easily depleted.

And willpower should be trained through constant reminder of why are you doing this.

Shifts in eating habits don't happen through control and willpower.

While you may have heard about the benefits of making such as switch, finding a natural mattress store can test your willpower to follow through.

Therefore, we want our willpower to be as strong as possible and put it through enough stimulus to force it to grow — it's like that with any physical exercise.

Through the practice of yoga, we are able to ingrain the habits of willpower into ourselves fully.

Willpower is a skill that can be strengthened and improved through practice, as efficiently as any yoga pose.

If our willpower fails to get us through, then we must not be strong enough.

If you would like to take a bigger leap and totally cut out sugar all together, you will likely be able to heal your addiction faster, however this approach does take a lot of effort and the willpower to get through a slight «withdrawal phase».

You are SO ready to finally break through the blocks to achieve your health goals, while feeling motivated and inspired without having to constantly deplete your willpower

There are no cheat meals or free days on the Paleo diet because it doesn't bar you from having your favorite foods or use a ton of willpower to make it through your day or week.

I kept trying to convince myself that this is going to take willpower and I just have to get through the training stage.

We push through with all the willpower we have.

Together with his former Case Western Reserve University colleagues Ellen Bratslavsky, Mark Muraven, and Dianne Tice, he examined the effect of a tempting food challenge designed to deplete participants» willpower through the awful power of an unfulfilled promise of chocolate!

Not all of our days are our best days, but we can make them better through our own willpower.

Studies have long proven that our willpower is at its strongest in the morning and diminishes as we go through the day.

It's necessary to have a tenacious willpower to push through in challenging times because success doesn't happen easily or overnight.

I barely made it through 3 days of one a few months back, you have much more willpower than me!

You overcome the impossible through the application of sheer, unvarnished willpower, a quality that Cruise has always possessed in abundance.

You overcome it through the application of sheer, unvarnished willpower, a quality that Cruise has always possessed in abundance.

It's hard to say... as the book is more from Zelda's point of reference, of her emotional mind and inner wisdom as she lived life through,... sometimes you can not speculate on another person's willpower or intentions, without first knowing a piece of their inner world too.

While some savvy non-fiction authors succeed through grit, willpower and constant bullhorning, the majority of authors are making a mess of their book marketing and promotion, using decade - old techniques and advice, which will move few books off shelves and even worse, can be detrimental to an author's professional reputation.

Without willpower and the ability to commit, it's impossible to follow through with prudent financial decisions.

«The support from all over Texas was uplifting and gave us the willpower to continue to push through and serve our community even in our darkest hour.»

The fairly bland aesthetics and the fact that you might have to traipse through the same sections over and over again to find divergence points resulted may result in you finding it hard to muster the willpower to start over after a while.

If you had the willpower and patience, you could beast your way through the game's four levels.