Achieving in life always lies upstream.

To reach it requires effort, discipline and self control.

If anyone promises you, just take it easy.

Apply this cream on your face and you'll wipe out 20 years from your looks are spent two hours a day on the Internet, and you will earn $200,000 a year.

I just wait for that lottery toe open for you.

That should not be believed.

As they say, the person who waits for the jackpot is a crackpot.

We need to utilize the proper path to success, which is based upon practice, discipline and a slow growth.

So the one quality that is essential for success in any aspect of human endeavor is will power our self control.

And unfortunately, this is also the one quality that people find.

They are deficient in.

Many decades ago, a scientist called Walter Michelle conducted an experiment in Stanford.

This experiment was called the toddler's torture.

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He tested the will power off toddlers.

Now, how do you test a toddler self control?

You cannot say.

Okay, you do this and five years down the line, you will achieve these rewards so he set up his test.

Very simply, he put a marshmallow in front of the toddler and said, My child, if you like, enjoy it.

But if you hold on for 20 minutes, you will get two marshmallows.

Now there is the reward for self control.

500 toddlers were tested by the researchers.

For some off them.

It was a no go the moment the researchers turned their backs that toddlers reached out and put the marshmallow enjoy while you can.

Who cares about the future?

Some off them contemplated over the dilemma for two minutes, but then gave it.

Some toddlers held on for 7 to 8 minutes, and it was very interesting how they distracted themselves, squirming, looking the other way.

But finally they gave him, and some toddlers held on for the full 20 minutes to receive the additional reward at the end.

Now an interesting thing happened.

Subsequently, Walter Michelle's got others were a part of the survey, and as they grew up, the other Children grew up with them.

The daughters went to Stanford in college, and that was when Michelle got a chance to see how these coddler czar faring in life, he was, um, eased to see that self control off the toddler correlated to success in every sphere.

Those toddlers who had displayed the highest self control had far higher city schools.

They were far better students.

They had less anger problems.

They were free from vices.

They were more sincere and their work.

They had better health, less weight on so on.

And those toddlers who lacked the most in self control had developed Weiss's.

They were overweight, they had relational problems, and so many of them had gotten convicted bean to prison and come out of it.

That was when it was highlighted that self control is such an important virtue for human life.

So let us delve further into it.

Where does this ability come from?

Whenever we engage in any physical are mental work.

Our brain fires up neurons in different regions.

The cortex, the neocortex, the sensory motor region.

Overall, the human brain is far more developed than the brain off the creatures.

But there is one distinguishing aspect to it, and that is the prefrontal cortex, the prefrontal lobes off the new cortex.

This gives us humans the ability toe trump the Lord desires to do things that are beneficial, even though they may be hard.

The prefrontal cortex enables us to desist from the pleasure that is harmful.

As somebody said, what prevents us from reaching our highest goal is not difficulties along the path, but an easier path to the lower gold.

And this prefrontal cortex gives us three abilities in us humans.

First is I want It enables us to keep sight off.

What are superior Goals are the second I want it enables us, do not do the things that will distract us on The third is I will.

It empowers us to do things that entail austerity that entail discipline.

That discipline comes from this prefrontal cortex.

Now the good news is that this will power.

It was very much like a muscle, and like a muscle, it tends to get exhausted with use.

Some researchers conducted an experiment.

Half the students in the samples away were taken to a room where they were radishes on hot cookies cooked in butter, but they were instructed.

You will not eat the cookie.

You will eat this bland radish and the other group of students were allowed to fees to their hearts content on the cookies.

Subsequently, there will powers were checked.

How is the willpower?

Checked one standard testes.

You give them an insolvable puzzle, but they do not know.

It's an insolvable puzzle, and they keep on trying until the willpower say's Enough.

This group that had its willpower tested seemed to have gotten drained, and they gave up in the test.

Within eight minutes, the other group that had feasted to its heart's content continued for an average off 20 minutes.

So Will power is like a muscle that tires out, and that is why you will observe that you are really power is the highest in the morning.

That is the time to do tasks that are difficult that require the engagement off the brain, for example, writing spiritually practice, meditation, etc.

And then through the day the willpower wins out, and often in the evening, people find that they are real power failures.

That is why if in ah household, both the husband and wife are working in the evening, it is often found that they start fighting with each other because, while working, they drained out there will power.

They were engaging their mind in a task that the mind did not enjoy.

And that is why by the time they came home, they did not have the ability to tolerate to be patient on the conflagration point was very low.

However, just like the muscles.

Willpower can also be developed.

That is the nature off this brain.

If you apply toe math problems again and again, it becomes better at them.

If somebody engages in juggling that portion of the brain which is engaged in juggling tends to develop, and similarly, we can develop our willpower by exerting it.

So a little bit of willpower exercise simple exercise.

For example, the body says you need to scratch, but you desist.

I will not now.

It may seem like a small thing, but if you do it, you will discover than the willpower has started increasing on an even more powerful way of developing the willpower.

What is that meditation?

What happens in meditation?

You sit down to meditate.

I will think of God or whatever is the object of your meditation on the mind, says No.

I don't enjoy this.

I would rather think of so and so now the intellect controls the mind.

Come back here.

Every time the mind wants to wander off, you pull the mind back by exerting the muscle off self control.

What is the consequence?

In three hours off meditation, you will find that your willpower has jumped many rungs.

Try it and do it.

And it is not even necessary that you succeed in your meditation because even if you're not succeeding, you are still exerting your willpower.

You are every time practicing that focus.

That concentration is an application off your self control and self control developed in one area off life will stand you in good stead in all the other areas.

So endeavor to enhance this muscle off willpower through practices such as meditation.

Andi, even after such practice, it is possible that you may find you are still a will power failure.

What do you do then?

Tap into another power that God has given us?

What is that power?

This is the Y power.

W h Y Y power.

What is the white power?

I'll tell you some other time.

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