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Many of us spend a lot more time tired and stressed than bursting with good intentions, no matter how much we'd like it to be different. You need to find ways to help yourself focus on your long-term goals even when you're at your worst. Look at when you're more likely to make the decisions that move you away from your goal. Do you 'treat' yourself to a pair of shoes you don't need after a particularly stressful week? Does chocolate in the cupboard prove irresistible after 9pm, or after an argument with your teenager?
Do you stay up late because it's just too much effort to go to bed? Ask yourself how you could remind yourself of your goals at that point. Could you put a picture of what it's going to be like to achieve your goals in your wallet, or on your food cupboard?
Can you choose a word you can repeat to yourself to remind yourself of how good it will feel to move towards your goal? You can also plan to distract yourself from temptation. If you know that you've got a bad week ahead, try arranging in advance to catch up with a friend or do a project at home rather than going on a shopping trip. Resolve that next time you'll have an argument, you'll go for a short walk, or decide you won't start doing anything new after 10pm in order to get to bed before real lethargy kicks in.
Managing your energy levels can also be very helpful to beating short-term wrong decisions. Improving your diet, getting more sleep or more exercise can help you achieve other goals simply by giving your brain more energy to resist the temptation of short-term pleasure.
Nearly at your target weight? But you'll probably start going downhill from now. Yes, it's true. Measuring progress towards a goal can actually have the opposite effect. Rather than keeping your eyes on what you want, you relax, get complacent, and start to make decisions that move you away from it.
In chapter 11, the writer highlights the people of God, named and unnamed, who faithfully persevered, while still waiting for what was promised through Jesus.
We pick up the writing in Hebrews Therefore, since we are surrounded by so great a cloud of witnesses, let us also lay aside every weight, and sin which clings so closely, and let us run with endurance the race that is set before us, looking to Jesus, the founder and perfecter of our faith, who for the joy that was set before him endured the cross, despising the shame, and is seated at the right hand of the throne of God.
Consider him who endured from sinners such hostility against himself, so that you may not grow weary or fainthearted. In your struggle against sin you have not yet resisted to the point of shedding your blood. There are several helpful things to notice here as we apply this perspective on perseverance to our own temptations. Words such as endurance, endured, and resisted are used four times in four verses. This should perk up our ears; the writer is speaking to people like us who are tempted to give up.
He is speaking into our weariness. Are we calling out to him for help? The call to endurance is not a just-grit-your-teeth and white-knuckle-it exhortation. The call to endure is tied to the person of Jesus Christ. We are looking to him who is the founder and perfecter of our faith; we are to consider him.
Implicit in what the writer is saying is that we are following in the footsteps of Jesus Christ himself. We are united to him who suffered greatly while he lived on earth.
He knows how hard endurance is and he is with you as you struggle. You are not alone. Anticipated joy motivated Jesus and it serves as a motivator for us as well. What was that joy for Jesus? Low self-control abilities have been linked to a wide range of negative consequences. Childhood self-contro l, as measured between the ages of 3 to 11, significantly predicted adult health problems e.
And again, self-control seems to be more important in predicting these outcomes than IQ or social class origins Moffitt et al. Can people wh o are self-disciplined and who regularly delay immediate pleasures still feel happy about their lives?
Yes, they can! Research has shown that self-control is also beneficial for social relationships. High self-control abilities are related to better inter personal relationships, better individual coping skills such as emotion regulation abilities and better interpersonal skills, such as empathy and perspective taking Tangney et al.
A recent meta-analysis de Ridder et al. The researchers equipped over participants with smartphones and asked them to report their desires on random occasions distributed over the course of one week.
The participants were asked if they recently experienced a desire. Then they had to indicate the strength o f the desire and whether it conflicted with personal goals. Furthermore, they were asked if they had tried to resist the desire and whether they were successful in resisting it or if they ended up enacting the desire. Participants with high self-control re ported both higher life satisfaction and more current happiness.
Thus, people with high self-control were not only happier with their lives in the long run and from a more cognitive-evaluative stance , as one would have expected, but were also in a bett er mood in the here and now. People with low self-control in contrast reported lower life satisfaction because they experienced more stressful conflicts between their desires and goals. Additionally, it was found that people with high self-control were b etter at balancing their inner conflicts by favoring goals over temptations, which again led to better mood in the short run and higher life satisfaction in the long run.
On the contrary, p eople with low self-control experienced stressful inner conflicts between temptations and goals more often , and were less likely to balance these conflicts in an ideal way, leading to worse mood and decreased overall life satisfaction. So, it seems that people high in trait self-control manage their daily lives better because they find themselves less often in situations in which they experience inner battles between their short-term pleasures and their long-term goals.
Experiencing fewer inner stressful conflicts , and being able to better manage such inner conflicts if they arise, both in turn increases current happiness and overall life satisfaction. One might have expected that people with high self-control become happ ier in the long run by better att aining long-term goals , but are unhappy in the short run because they constantly delay immediate pleasures.
They are better at reach ing their long-term goals , such as becoming slim or saving additional funds to pay off the house , but they may miss out on momentary pleasures and hence end up being frustrated in the here and now. The mentioned study Hofmann et al. Rather, it seems tha t giving in to temptations that conflict with personal goals does not yield as much momentary pleasure as one might expect.
In contra st, enacting non-tempting desires yielded a strong net gain in momentary happiness. Thus, contrary to common lay theories, enacting temptations does not appear to be a viable way of maximizing short-term utility. Until now, we have summarized the positive effects of having high self-control abilities that have been reported in many different life domains.
But why do people perform better when they have high self-regulation abilities? What are the underlying differences between people who regularly fail at self-control and people who succeed in controlling themselves?
The classical view is that self-control is about resisting temptations. But as recent evidence suggests de Ridder et al. Life seems to be less of a struggle for people with high self-control.
These findings require a reconceptualization of how trait self-control works , as the classical views on self-control do not take preventive forms of self-control into account.
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