What are your thoughts on "When you want to change, strategies are more helpful than will power.?

[Vine Michael]

A clear plan or strategy would move you forward than will-power with the strength of a tornado. For example look at the general sports; I'm sure every player plays with enough will power to win but they don't all win only the ones with the best laid out strategy wins.

[Hiruni Hansika]

This is another instance that you cannot do without only one. I agree that both strategy and will power is needed to bring out a change in life. But in my life it was always the will power that came first because I am not much of a person who plans things. But I know what I need to do and stick to doing it. But it can change from person to person isn't it?

[aodonnell]

I think it's easy to confuse willpower and discipline. Discipline is the mental fortitude to persevere with the strategies you've put in place to achieve. It will also require considering what is and isn't working and make adjustments. When we rely solely on willpower, we're more likely to force ourselves through regardless of whether its working well or whether we've lost the heart behind the goal.

[María Andrea Fernández Sepúlveda]

Both are necessary, in my experience. Willpower is very useful to take the leap and decide to change, but we all run out of willpower at times and if we don't have the correct strategies in place, our plan might fail.

[kdstrack]

It seems to me that these two go hand in hand. We need a strategy to point us in the right direction. We need to find the right strategy to achieve our goal or we will flounder, or even arrive at a mistaken goal! Once we have an adequate strategy, we need the willpower to follow it to the end. I think we need both.

[Suzer6440 xyz]

I think you definitely have to have both. We have to have willpower to read the strategies. And we have a plan as well power that should motivate us to follow the concepts to help us in the first place

[Hogwarts03]

I think that strategy and will power are equally important. You can't undertake anything with just one of them.

Let's say that you have a clear cut strategy with completely detailed steps in order to get your dream job. But you don't have the will power. You don't really want to work for that job. You lack motivation, because will power directly links to motivation. What then? Fine, you can carry out your strategic plan but you won't get as good results as you would have with will power, when you're actually pushing yourself to do more, to revise and improve your strategy. You won't get the best result.

The same goes for the other side. You can't have a lot of will power with no strategy and expect to complete a task. There's absolutely no plan. Saying "I will do it" will be great for raising your morale, but how exactly will you do it? You will fail. You need a proper strategy to even think about doing something.

Basically, I think they go together and one does not precede the other for the reasons explained above.

[Ellylion]

I believe that strategies are very important indeed, but they only compliment will power. A successful career is impossible without a will power just because we must make these strategies work somehow

[Manish987]

I feel strategies and will power both of them are necessary for one planning to bring a change in one's life. It's the proportion of the two that the author is talking about and he is correct in stating that strategies are more helpful than will power as in the long run one's will power may dwindle but strategy can be made in the very beginning about what to do when that happens. What we need in life is clarity and through that clarity strategies could be planned and executed effectively. Will power keeps us running till the goal is achieved and perfect strategy helps to plan the shortest route to achieve that goal. Therefore strategy do hold the first place when it comes to bringing the change.

[Stephanie Elizabeth]

Much like motivation, we cannot solely rely on willpower to bring us success. Willpower can only bring us so far as it increases and decreases; we are not always going to feel motivated to do something, but if we can hone skills to carry in our tool belt, we are far better off than if we only focused on willpower.

[Scarbaby]

I think will power and strategy are both equally important to have in place for change to occur. One person may lack the will power and may need to follow more of a "fake it till you make it" mentality; for this reason, strategy may be more helpful than will power. Overtime, strategy becomes habit and habit would hopefully become longterm routine. For another person, if they don't have the true desire for change than any strategy they try to follow will fall short. By having will power and strategy in place, change is more likely to stick around for the longterm.

[Nicholus Schroeder]

I believe that will power is more helpful than strategies when you want to change because having the best possible strategies that account for all the variables of life doesn't guarantee change or success. If you don't possess the will power to see those strategies through to the end.

A perfect example of this would be an aspiring guitarist that has a strategy in place for how to become better, yet ten years later they still can't play intricate tabs because they lacked the wil power to see their strategy through to the end.

Now an aspiring guitarist who has the will power but no clear defined strategy on the other hand is more likely to succeed, because this individual isn't deterred by occasional failures as they know that one day they'll succeed so they just power through the difficult times.

[DANAWEB]

Interesting question. A plan executed without will power, hmm...if you're not willing to do it then how did you mange to do it.
Conversely if you're having the will power and no plan then how's that gonna help you?
If one is making a big decision such as changing jobs then one needs a plan of action, see all the possibilities, needs to gather up some courage, and also be willing to do that. It helps to know what next and also that you can do it.

Yes. If you are planning to change a job, you have to see the possibilities and opportunities. At the same time, there are some risk involved as well, especially in a situation such as we currently in.

[Eddy E]

I don't think anyone is more powerful than the other, I believe you need both to achieve that "chnage", but the first step is the will, because without consciously wanting to change it doesn't give room for much strategy. Then again,having a will to do something is great but it doesn't just stop there, you must take active steps to achieve it.

[ROSEY-ANN]

I think the author is right is when he says that strategies are more helpful than will power. It's because will power will last only until we do something that interests us and can keep us motivated. And thus, he asks us to establish some powerful but pragmatic morning routines. By doing this, we supply the necessary momentum to our will power to stay focused. Remember, will power is like stamina or physical strength. It's a resource that gets depleted over the course of the day. Just like how eating nutritious and balanced meals is imperative to a healthy body, so are strategies to our will power.

Definitely, establishing a routine is an important part of strategizing. I also see where the author mentions having a routine for when things are not progressing as they should. With proper planning we can overcome obstacles.