My Musings: Willpower

Willpower is the energetic determination to do something(Merriam-Webster’s Dictionary and Thesaurus). Many believe that it is what drives many people even when there seems to be no point.

Willpower is hard to define because so many people have their own thoughts and reasoning as to what willpower may or may not be. Willpower may be seen as following a strict discipline until it becomes a norm; It may also be seen as having the desire to achieve something and not giving up; It may be seen as determination at its best.

Merriam-Webster’s puts it quite directly as in energetic determination. I think it is the decision made consciously to do something regardless of what it takes.

Personally, I believe that to get started with something, we need motivation. When we are motivated, we start. After the initial motivation is when willpower comes in. Do I really want this? is the question that frequently asked when motivation dies down. This is the soul of the matter – do we have the determination?

With determination, the will is achieved.

Will is also something difficult to explain. I believe will is the desire to do something. However, willpower or the determination gets it done. They go hand-in-hand: will and willpower. It is useless to desire something if there is no willpower to do it and there is no way anything will be achieved without the desire and the initial motivation.

I like the motto of Goroka Secondary School: Desire + Determination = Success. It puts things into perspective. You have to have both to succeed.

So remember Desire + Determination = Success

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