Organizing for Life by Sandra Felton

Author:Sandra Felton
Language: eng
Format: epub
Tags: Women, House Cleaning, HOM019000, SEL021000
ISBN: 9781441215697
Publisher: Baker Publishing Group
Published: 2007-02-28T16:00:00+00:00

Need More Willpower?

Many people think discipline is the result of willpower. They say things like “I can’t lose weight because I don’t have enough willpower,” “I need more willpower to stop smoking,” “I could stop gambling if I had enough willpower,” or, as many of us say, “I just don’t have enough willpower to keep up with the house. I need to be more disciplined.”

It does not help to quote platitudes such as “Where there is a will there is a way” to the floundering Messie. It does not help to tell her to have a stronger will, to put her nose to the grindstone and her shoulder to the wheel. Platitudes just cause confusion and guilt. They may be true, but they are not the answer to the Messie’s problem. Telling a Messie these things is like telling a man whose car is immobilized by transmission problems that using high-octane gasoline will make it run better. It may be true that higher octane gas makes cars run more smoothly, but that does not help him because his problem has nothing to do with combustion.

Admonishing someone to be more disciplined or have stronger willpower helps only those whose lives are already running pretty well. It does not get to the root of the Messie’s problem. She must get something else fixed before she can even begin to consider the place discipline may have in her life.

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