There’s a good reason I talk about the no-willpower approach to change. There is no such thing as willpower. 
Well, don’t take my word for it. Explore for yourself, as you listen to this episode. What if there is no such thing as willpower?
What if what we call willpower is thought saying “I’m going to do x” and then thought either saying “Yay, I did it!” or “Boo, I failed”?
What if the very real feeling of exerting willpower is just a story we’ve been taught to tell? An I-am-making-it-happen story.
That would actually make a lot of sense, wouldn’t it, given that we all know that no matter how much willpower we appear to have, we don’t have access to it all the time? The results of “willpower” are inconsistent at best.
Maybe that’s because it doesn’t truly exist?
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Hi Amy
First I want to say thank you for all the things you do. You really helped me a lot!
I just listened to to your latest “There is no such Thing as Willpower” podcast and it really makes sense to me that there are only thoughts poping up and we/mind create(s) the story of having made a choice.
But why was Syd Banks talking about that we have free will and that we can choose on which thought to act and not?
Do I missunderstand something?
(Excuse my English.. I hope you understand my question)
Thank you once again! *heart*
Nadine