5 Tips for Boosting Your Willpower

Good habits are foundational for happiness—but to create them, you need willpower

If you want to do anything, you first need the will. Fortunately, willpower is something you can cultivate. Dean Drobot/Shutterstock

Who among us has not made a plan to get up in the morning and exercise, but then hit snooze one time too many and slept through our morning jog?

We may have been super-inspired by the incredible brain-boosting properties of exercise. We may have had every intention to start an exercise plan and stick to it. But then our warm bed sucked us in. “We’ll exercise tomorrow,” we told ourselves.