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How Rich Roll Uses Meditation to Run and Run and Run

By Rich Roll — 2016

This ultra-athlete makes 320-mile races feel a little easier with Headspace. Learn to meditate in ten minutes a day with the Headspace app. See more...

03:47 min

If Self-Discipline Feels Difficult, Then You’re Doing It Wrong

Many equate self-discipline with living a good, moral life, which ends up creating a lot of shame when we fail. There’s a better way to build lasting, solid self-discipline in your life.

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Mark Manson
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No Excuses! The Power of Self-Discipline

Most people think success comes from good luck or enormous talent, but many successful people achieve their accomplishments in a simpler way: through self-discipline.

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Brian Tracy
2011
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No Limits: The Will to Succeed

For years the world has followed Michael Phelps’s progress from teen sensation in Sydney to bona fide phenom in Athens. Now he’s a living Olympic legend in Beijing with a peerless record of gold medals.

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Michael Phelps, Alan Abrahamson
2009
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17 Self-Discipline Exercises to Build Your Self-Control Muscle

This article covers self-discipline theory and the evolution of the concept, to answer some of your most common questions about willpower.

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Catherine Moore
2021
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Stop Self-Sabotage: Six Steps to Unlock Your True Motivation, Harness Your Willpower, and Get Out of Your Own Way

Have you ever had a deadline for a big work project, only to find yourself down to the wire because you spent too much time on social media? Or gotten excited about meeting someone new, only to convince yourself he isn’t really interested? How many Januarys have you resolved that this is the year...

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Judy Ho
2025
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Your Inner Will: Finding Personal Strength in Critical Times

The bestselling psychotherapist and author of The Power of Kindness provides concrete, meaningful lessons in developing internal willpower during times of personal crisis. We all experience periods of gloom, fear, and uncertainty.

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Piero Ferrucci
2015
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The Practicing Mind: Developing Focus and Discipline in Your Life

In those times when we want to acquire a new skill or face a formidable challenge we hope to overcome, what we need most are patience, focus, and discipline, traits that seem elusive or difficult to maintain.

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Thomas M. Sterner
2012
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How to Win with Willpower: 75 Strategies to Increase Self-Discipline, Motivation, and Success

Willpower, for most, is a refined skill set needed to succeed in life. How to Win with Willpower provides a roadmap to managing this inner strength.

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Aliya Levinson
2020
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Finish What You Start: The Art of Following Through, Taking Action, Executing, and Self-Discipline

Practical tactics to grow your willpower, stop procrastination, focus like a laser, and achieve whatever you set your mind to. Following through and finishing what you start—more valuable skills than you realize.

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Peter Hollins
2018
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The Little Book of Big Change: The No-Willpower Approach to Breaking Any Habit

No matter what your bad habit is, you have the power to change it. Drawing on a powerful combination of neuroscience and spirituality, this book will show you that you are not your habits. Rather, your habits and addictions are the result of simple brain wiring that is easily reversed.

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Amy Johnson, Mark Howard (foreword)
2016
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