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

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Sincerely, I believe that strategy and will power related. While strategies are crucial for adhering to your success game plan, will power provides you the courage and tenacity you need to get up and get things done.
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When it comes to transformation, I believe will power occasionally triumphs over strategies. You can have all the plans and tactics in the world but lack the motivation to carry them through. Additionally, your determination to change will aid you in creating a strategy or change plan.
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A person actually needs both strategy and will power if they truly wish to change. It doesn't matter how much you want to follow your dreams and make a difference if you don't have a strategy to make them a reality.
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Joy C wrote: 09 May 2021, 17:23 I agree fully with this assertion. In my opinion, strategies could just be the push your will needs to pull through with the change you seek.
You won't be able to make any meaningful change if you don't first plan and or map out a path towards the end goal. That is not to say your will power is unimportant. Rather, strategies give your will power fuel to ride.
Both are equally significant. You might have a step-by-step strategy on how to relocate, change employment, or modify your romantic situation. You won't take that first step, though, if you lack the necessary willpower. When you can't see the other steps, willpower enables you to take the first step of trust.
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cookiedough wrote: 17 May 2021, 21:07 It depends. In some cases, willpower is needed more than strategy. For example, let's say you're running a marathon and you're feeling tired in the last lap. Willpower will get you to the finishing line. In other cases, strategy is needed more.
Yes, I agree with you. Both are required, but depending on the individual, one may be more important than the other. People build a lot of new habits, come up with a plan, and when they lose interest, they stop doing them. Willpower simply isn't there, and it makes a huge difference.
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In other words, motivation can only take you so far, your strategy and discipline are what actually make the difference. I agree with the author on this.
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Strategies are much more important than willpower for me. Willpower can be affected by health, circumstance, and peer pressure among other things. Strategies, on the other hand, are maps to success. Even if you go off the plan, you can return to it and pick up where you left off. If you're not achieving the success you want, willpower will fail you while strategies can be changed to fit new circumstances.
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Strategies, in my opinion, outweigh willpower any day since it is impossible to succeed in life solely via the use of willpower. An individual who has a plan of action has some direction and knows what to do.
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Well strategies will worked if coupled not just with will power but with patience and perseverance. I also believe in the power of consistency and discipline :D
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I think the both work hand in hand, if you have the will power to do something, but no strategy for it, there is every tendency that you might not achieve your goals. Same thing goes for when you have the strategy but no willpower.
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For me, strategies are far more crucial than willpower. Health, circumstance, and peer pressure are a few factors that can influence willpower. Contrarily, strategies are road maps to success. Even if you deviate from the plan, you can get back on track and continue where you left off. Willpower will let you down if you're not having the success you want, but techniques may be altered to work in different situations.
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Will power is like yearning for something while strategizing is like making careful and calculated plans to achieve those desires. Will power is hope while strategizing is hope with actions making it alive, achievable, and redeemable. It's better to strategize things, they are easily achievable.
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A strategy ensures that we are on the right track, and when willpower wanes, it reminds us of the end goal and how our current actions contribute to what we are working towards.
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I agree with the author on this it is not enough to have a strong will but having strategy is more vital. Willpower wouldn't be effective if there are no strategies to use in following ones dream.
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The first part of the quote "When you want to change" indicates that the will power is already existing up to a certain extent and in that case, the quote stands correct.

However, in case, there is a lack of will power then it becomes crucial that it should be there because without it, everything is rendered moot.
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