Product Description
Did you know more people quit smoking cold-turkey than by any other method?
In 1986, the American Cancer Society reported: "Over 90% of the estimated 37 million people who have stopped smoking in this country since the Surgeon General's first report linking smoking to cancer have done so unaided."
Willpower helps more people quit than all the best efforts of the pharmaceutical industry. Weight-loss, organisational skills, reaching goals are all reliant on the willpower of the person. But how can you increase your willpower?
This book outlines a simple system to increase willpower and self-control. It shows the reader how to start with simple exercises to strengthen your willpower. It details a complete method called "The Modified Rubicon Method" which allows your to create a easy formula for accomplishing goals. You can:
- Improve your health: lose weight, exercise more, eat better, drink less alcohol, quit smoking
- Improve your finances: get out of debt, save money
- Improve your career: get a better job
- Improve your education: improve grades, get a better education, learn something new (such as a foreign language)
- Improve yourself: become more organized, reduce stress, be less grumpy, manage time, be more independent, perhaps watch less television
All of the goals above share a common requirement. Willpower.
The author uses the latest in neurological and psychological research to show you the pitfalls of traditional methods of self-control and how to avoid them. You are shown how to avoid "willpower fatigue" and increase your self-control.
You can discover how to create an effective action plan which allows you to focus your energy on your goals and to develop a system of feedback to monitor your progress.
The Modified Rubicon Method is a step-by-step approach based on the "Rubicon model of action phases" (Heckhausen,1987b; Heckhausen & The Gollwitzer, 7986, 1987) a psychological model for goal orientated behavior which encompasses goal setting and goal striving.
The Rubicon model is a metaphor passing a point-of-no-return and is an allusion to Julius Caesar's decision to march his army across the Rubicon river and bring the Roman Republic into civil war.
The Modified Rubicon Method shows you how to achieve your goals, break bad habits, and enhance your self-regulation. "Increasing Willpower" is illustrated throughout with numerous and progressive exercises to help you increase your self-control. Because the method is simple and intuitive it is easy to remember and easy to use.
The method has a straight-forward four part structure:
1 - Pre-Commencement
Once you know how to cultivate your willpower, and track your efforts, you'll hit your targets with amazing efficiency. Success is a journey, not a destination. Let "Increasing Willpower" start you off on your journey to success
.
In 1986, the American Cancer Society reported: "Over 90% of the estimated 37 million people who have stopped smoking in this country since the Surgeon General's first report linking smoking to cancer have done so unaided."
Willpower helps more people quit than all the best efforts of the pharmaceutical industry. Weight-loss, organisational skills, reaching goals are all reliant on the willpower of the person. But how can you increase your willpower?
This book outlines a simple system to increase willpower and self-control. It shows the reader how to start with simple exercises to strengthen your willpower. It details a complete method called "The Modified Rubicon Method" which allows your to create a easy formula for accomplishing goals. You can:
- Improve your health: lose weight, exercise more, eat better, drink less alcohol, quit smoking
- Improve your finances: get out of debt, save money
- Improve your career: get a better job
- Improve your education: improve grades, get a better education, learn something new (such as a foreign language)
- Improve yourself: become more organized, reduce stress, be less grumpy, manage time, be more independent, perhaps watch less television
All of the goals above share a common requirement. Willpower.
The author uses the latest in neurological and psychological research to show you the pitfalls of traditional methods of self-control and how to avoid them. You are shown how to avoid "willpower fatigue" and increase your self-control.
You can discover how to create an effective action plan which allows you to focus your energy on your goals and to develop a system of feedback to monitor your progress.
The Modified Rubicon Method is a step-by-step approach based on the "Rubicon model of action phases" (Heckhausen,1987b; Heckhausen & The Gollwitzer, 7986, 1987) a psychological model for goal orientated behavior which encompasses goal setting and goal striving.
The Rubicon model is a metaphor passing a point-of-no-return and is an allusion to Julius Caesar's decision to march his army across the Rubicon river and bring the Roman Republic into civil war.
The Modified Rubicon Method shows you how to achieve your goals, break bad habits, and enhance your self-regulation. "Increasing Willpower" is illustrated throughout with numerous and progressive exercises to help you increase your self-control. Because the method is simple and intuitive it is easy to remember and easy to use.
The method has a straight-forward four part structure:
1 - Pre-Commencement
- Deliberation
- Planning
- Acting
- Evaluating
Once you know how to cultivate your willpower, and track your efforts, you'll hit your targets with amazing efficiency. Success is a journey, not a destination. Let "Increasing Willpower" start you off on your journey to success
.
From the Author
I wrote this book over the course of about 18 months after about four years of researching ways to get my act together and get more of my goals accomplished. As I have stated in the preface (a little bit quoted below) I learned a lot about willpower and I've used this knowledge to quit smoking and run marathons, etc.
But I think the most important thing about this research was the discovery of the Rubicon Model of Actions, which I modified to become a simple method used to define goals and to get them accomplished. The modified Rubicon Method is fully described in this book, and I hope it will be as much use to you as it has been for me.
A little bit of the preface of the book:
I was plagued throughout my early life with a lack of willpower. Often this manifested itself as procrastination, laziness, smoking, overeating, oversleeping, the inability to resist temptation. I have struggled to overcome these weaknesses and although I am not perfect in the last ten years I have:
* stopped smoking (cold turkey).
* completed two marathons and one half marathon (running almost 500 miles in training before each one).
* written eight books while commuting 20 hours a week and holding down a full-time job.
* got out of bed at 4 o'clock each morning to write.
* stopped eating meat and become a vegetarian.
Willpower is something required by everyone and I don't claim to have more than anyone else. But I have learned how to increase my willpower in the last ten years. The willpower I have is now stronger and lasts longer through repeated exercise. I've consistently worked to increase my willpower and self-discipline over a number of years and the benefits are paying off.
But I think the most important thing about this research was the discovery of the Rubicon Model of Actions, which I modified to become a simple method used to define goals and to get them accomplished. The modified Rubicon Method is fully described in this book, and I hope it will be as much use to you as it has been for me.
A little bit of the preface of the book:
I was plagued throughout my early life with a lack of willpower. Often this manifested itself as procrastination, laziness, smoking, overeating, oversleeping, the inability to resist temptation. I have struggled to overcome these weaknesses and although I am not perfect in the last ten years I have:
* stopped smoking (cold turkey).
* completed two marathons and one half marathon (running almost 500 miles in training before each one).
* written eight books while commuting 20 hours a week and holding down a full-time job.
* got out of bed at 4 o'clock each morning to write.
* stopped eating meat and become a vegetarian.
Willpower is something required by everyone and I don't claim to have more than anyone else. But I have learned how to increase my willpower in the last ten years. The willpower I have is now stronger and lasts longer through repeated exercise. I've consistently worked to increase my willpower and self-discipline over a number of years and the benefits are paying off.
