Self-Affirmation To Reduce Self-Control Failure

<p>Everyone dreams of becoming successful in life or their businesses/companies. One way of ensuring overall success is self-affirming by focusing on expressing one's core values. Research shows that self-affirming enhances self-control; thus, individuals can reason about their objectives, tasks, and goals. Self-affirmation inhibits negative feedback and other threats to the self. Therefore, self-affirmed individuals forego self-protective responses to threats and instead allow the individuals to be open to responses.</p> <p>Join Shayn in today's interesting topic as she discusses an exercise to strengthen self-affirmation/willpower. She also discusses the importance/benefits of having willpower/self-affirmation. Shayn also gives a brief history of the development of willpower and the findings from various research projects.</p> <p><strong>Tune in!</strong></p> <p><strong>&nbsp;</strong></p> <p><strong>During this episode, you will learn about;</strong></p> <p><strong>[00:01] </strong>Introduction to this week's episode</p> <p><strong>[00:21] </strong>Today's focus; self-affirmation to reduce self-control failure</p> <p><strong>[01:53] </strong>How to express your core values to help strengthen your willpower</p> <p><strong>[02:38] </strong>#1 Think for a long and introspective period and identify your real core values</p> <p><strong>[03:17] </strong>#2 Don't pick something just because it makes you sound like a giant</p> <p><strong>[03:38] </strong>#3 Write a short essay explaining one of your core values and why it is important to you and others</p> <p><strong>[03:53] </strong>#4 You might also want to use a journal to note down the essence in which the core value has impacted your life</p> <p><strong>[04:31] </strong>#5 Express these values in the real world to supplement this exercise</p> <p><strong>[04:54] </strong>#6 Over time, you may find that this self-affirmation has increased your ability to self-control; thus, continue practicing the expression to maintain the strength of your willpower</p> <