Talk about motivation #2 Last time. I talk about willpower is just like physical strength (Talk about motivation #1). That willpower is limited, so we better manage it well. Let's talk about habit today. Basically, habit is some behavior that you would do automatically in certain condition. What it means is habit doesn't cost willpower or cost only a little. For example, you won't feel hard to brush your teeth when you wake up in the morning(for those of you brushing daily), but if suddenly I ask you to brush after lunch, you may need some willpower to do so. Therefore, the best way I found to save my willpower is to form "positive habit", which do me good and save my willpower from hard mission. From this point of view, consistency is the key. So, do you have any ideas of what habit you should try to form?

Talk about motivation #1 Let's talk about some basic concept about motivation in my opinion. First, willpower (which mainly determine motivation) is like physical strength. Once you do any work out, you consume your energy from your body. That means if you use too much willpower to do something in the morning, you would have less willpower in the evening. As a result, it would be harder to do anything that needs willpower. For example, you probably wouldn't feel good enough to do exercise after you finished you work that cost you much energy. Therefore, if you want to do something that is hard or not feeling motivated to do, you better schedule that activity at the time you have enough willpower (for me, it's morning). That implied anything that cost you willpower would affect your performance later. Resisting to eat the tasty cake might make me harder to write an article on here, so I better don't let myself see any tasty cake before I write this :). However, suitable amount of exercise would be good for your body, so is to willpower. Doing nothing needs willpower might lead to lack of it. It's complicated to decide what should I do or what shouldn't sometimes.

My opinion of getting motivated Actually, I have read book about willpower in English. That's the first English book I read with seriousness. It's call <<Willpower Instinct>>, wrote by Kelly McGonigal, who is a PhD holder and has hosted a course about willpower. The book has change me much. I was a lazy person(I am still lazy though), but the ideas from the book has really helped me much. I may not typing this if I didn't read the book about 8 months ago. I would like to share some of the ideas if I get motivated enough to write article on here in the future. Briefly, you can pay attention to several aspects to try improving your willpower: 1. Every decisions you made about your willpower and the related mindset 2. Did you take care of your own body well. E.g. sleep enough, eat well, do exercise, it seems simple but those are essential. 3. Emotion, especially negative emotion 4. How you value about future and now (e.g. do you have goal about your future, and how important it is compared to present) 5. Any addiction to something e.g. video games, phone addicted 6. Any excuse you made 7. Your social environment ( your close one probably affected you much than you know) More if I get motivated :) welcome to give comment And if you have any book you want to share, big welcome

My first article I am trying to begin learning Japanese. Also I'm learning English for long long time too, but I am not writing any English article regularly, so my writing and spelling skill is very bad compared to reading skill. Maybe I should write something regularly in here? I studied the Japanese alphabets and start to learn some basic sentence, hope one day I can capable to master Japanese.