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The Willpower Instinct By Kelly Mcgonigal

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During the course of the last month or so , students were given a challenge. That

challenge was to find something that has become a habit or an issue to the student and

change it, make it a willpower. Many students chose procrastination, saving money, and

other things along those lines. However, for my willpower, I went with controlling and

managing my sleep habits. Halfway through the book, I noticed that, while I had taken the

challenge of doing two, I needed to focus on the first one that would actually affect me

more than the one I had placed first. The book given to us, The Willpower Instinct by

Kelly McGonigal, gave us guidelines and little tips as we read. Some of those tips

included little experiments that one should do as they …show more content…

I’m not a perfect person. I understand that I may stray away from this willpower and

recoil. But I do know that I have the willpower to jump back to my challenge and continue

from there.

When this challenge was first presented, I actually went head strong to

something that I knew I need more than a few weeks to change.Despite the teacher

giving us clear instructions not to do a second willpower challenge, I went ahead and did

one in my head mentally. It was something I could back up on when i felt that the first

willpower grew too difficult to do. Which turned out to be correct. The original willpower

grew to be stressful and even complicated to even continue. To be honest, I tried doing

this willpower because although it was something I needed to improve on, it wasn't going

to make me any better in the long run. I just wanted to see how far I would go, maybe to

change myself for the better, when in actuality it made the challenge much worse. I was

stressing myself to change in the better light, to maybe hold my tongue a bit better, only

to find out that even if I change, my reason for even starting this willpower was …show more content…

It stuck to me as I officially dropped and

wondered why. My main reason for doing it was to be more patient with someone who I

can't be patient with. I was trying too hard and taking up a bigger post than could

manage. Even with needing to sleep earlier, I knew I wasn't able to handle it in such a big

chunk. I needed to start small and make my way up. I needed to train myself before

taking so many big challenges. And unlike my smaller challenge that could extend over

time, the original one stayed in place and wouldn’t really change. To make it a bit worse,

the original willpower would hinder with the secondary challenge, the one that actually

effects me daily. The first one I don't need to do. I could lift that challenge off my

shoulders and do away with it when I feel fit. I just thought improving on it would make me

a bit calmer to the person behind the challenge. However, that is not the case.

I will walk away from this challenge knowing that I am actually trying. I do have

the ability and willpower to sleep on time. I want to be able to sleep more. I need

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