Comments on: The Power of The Free Will http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/ Aussie Internet Marketer | Success Communicator | Napoleon Hill | Think And Grow Rich Mon, 30 Jan 2012 05:04:32 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Mel Smith http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/comment-page-1/#comment-23954 Mel Smith Sun, 11 Jul 2010 12:23:10 +0000 http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/#comment-23954 "Perception" & "Responsibility" are two words that come to mind for me when I think of Free Will & Willpower. Our personal perception of a situation guides our free will decision-making process: do we view the situation as a "problem", or an "opportunity"? We then need to take responsibility for the decisions we make & have the willpower/drive to see them through to the appropriate outcome. Occasionally we will make "lesser quality" choices, perhaps in the heat of the moment, that don't serve us well in getting to where we say we want to go. Just use that free will to choose again! As "Right" & "Wrong" are subjective viewpoints on the choices we make, aiming for our "highest" choice or purpose on any topic in life is going to yield the greatest results. :) .-= Mel Smith´s last blog ..<a href="http://onlinecashcreation.com/freedom/3-ways-article-marketing-can-work-for-you" rel="nofollow">3 Ways Article Marketing Can Work for You</a> =-. “Perception” & “Responsibility” are two words that come to mind for me when I think of Free Will & Willpower.

Our personal perception of a situation guides our free will decision-making process: do we view the situation as a “problem”, or an “opportunity”? We then need to take responsibility for the decisions we make & have the willpower/drive to see them through to the appropriate outcome.

Occasionally we will make “lesser quality” choices, perhaps in the heat of the moment, that don’t serve us well in getting to where we say we want to go. Just use that free will to choose again! As “Right” & “Wrong” are subjective viewpoints on the choices we make, aiming for our “highest” choice or purpose on any topic in life is going to yield the greatest results. :)
.-= Mel Smith´s last blog ..3 Ways Article Marketing Can Work for You =-.

]]> By: Rita http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/comment-page-1/#comment-22913 Rita Tue, 06 Jul 2010 02:52:13 +0000 http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/#comment-22913 Hi Sean, I discovered that I did have the power to change not only, the way I thought but the way I did things. It has often been hard, and have had to refocus on how I was doing a few times as I still keep slipping back to looking for approval from those around me instead of believing in my own power of free will. Today even those who were skeptical are now seeing me as more confident and determined to get what I want. Hi Sean,
I discovered that I did have the power to change not only, the way I thought but the way I did things.
It has often been hard, and have had to refocus on how I was doing a few times as I still keep slipping back to looking for approval from those around me instead of believing in my own power of free will.

Today even those who were skeptical are now seeing me as more confident and determined to get what I want.

]]> By: Elly http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/comment-page-1/#comment-22762 Elly Mon, 05 Jul 2010 02:14:31 +0000 http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/#comment-22762 Hi Sean, I would like to comment about willpower and the power to change. When we don't like our circumstances and we want to change, we need 'leverage', a good enough reason to move from our immobilisation into action. That is the easy part. As you stated, maintaining it is the hard part. Why? because people often think they are going for one thing but underlying that could be a loss which creates self sabotage. For instance, a person decides they are going to go for that University Degree, get out of their humdrum existence and move up to something more exciting. What they don't consider is there is going to be a sacrifice to be made in the interim. Their leisure hours will be taken up with study, their extra cash will be spent on fees and books, maybe travel. This could be a 5 or 6 year ordeal. If they have a family, they will require emotional support form their family etc. If they don't think deeply about what it will take to 'get there' it could end up feeling harder than their original state of 'stuckness' and they throw it in. Some people can be unrealistic about time frames and when they don't see instant results they give up. A man down the road from me has been building a house for 4 years now. He comes up from Sydney every weekend, and in the school holidays. On the outside it looks like nothing much has happened. I went for a look inside the other day, and the house is nearly finished and he is really happy. Often we don't see the changes, but we need to keep persevering because one day, it has to happen, you will reach your goal, but only if you don't give up on yourself. Hi Sean,
I would like to comment about willpower and the power to change. When we don’t like our circumstances and we want to change, we need ‘leverage’, a good enough reason to move from our immobilisation into action. That is the easy part. As you stated, maintaining it is the hard part. Why? because people often think they are going for one thing but underlying that could be a loss which creates self sabotage.

For instance, a person decides they are going to go for that University Degree, get out of their humdrum existence and move up to something more exciting. What they don’t consider is there is going to be a sacrifice to be made in the interim. Their leisure hours will be taken up with study, their extra cash will be spent on fees and books, maybe travel. This could be a 5 or 6 year ordeal. If they have a family, they will require emotional support form their family etc. If they don’t think deeply about what it will take to ‘get there’ it could end up feeling harder than their original state of ‘stuckness’ and they throw it in.

Some people can be unrealistic about time frames and when they don’t see instant results they give up.

A man down the road from me has been building a house for 4 years now. He comes up from Sydney every weekend, and in the school holidays. On the outside it looks like nothing much has happened. I went for a look inside the other day, and the house is nearly finished and he is really happy. Often we don’t see the changes, but we need to keep persevering because one day, it has to happen, you will reach your goal, but only if you don’t give up on yourself.

]]> By: Renee http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/comment-page-1/#comment-22639 Renee Sun, 04 Jul 2010 10:04:42 +0000 http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/#comment-22639 The power of the free will is something really great - and unfortunately not used often enough. I guess because we can be a very lazy species, taking the way of least resistance. Which very often means "I will just do as the others do", hoping that they made a good decision. Strangely enough we then want to blame it on everybody else if it didn't work out for us, denying that it was our own choice to just follow everybody else. I guess it takes a lot of power to use your free will to your own best, but once we learn that we always do make our own choice (even if it is the one to just trust everybody else more than myself) we have learned something very important. .-= Renee´s last blog ..<a href="http://lawofselfimprovement.com/mind/10-good-habits-worth-having/" rel="nofollow">10 Good Habits Worth Having</a> =-. The power of the free will is something really great – and unfortunately not used often enough. I guess because we can be a very lazy species, taking the way of least resistance. Which very often means “I will just do as the others do”, hoping that they made a good decision.

Strangely enough we then want to blame it on everybody else if it didn’t work out for us, denying that it was our own choice to just follow everybody else.

I guess it takes a lot of power to use your free will to your own best, but once we learn that we always do make our own choice (even if it is the one to just trust everybody else more than myself) we have learned something very important.
.-= Renee´s last blog ..10 Good Habits Worth Having =-.

]]> By: Sarah Butland http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/comment-page-1/#comment-16690 Sarah Butland Mon, 29 Mar 2010 21:57:25 +0000 http://www.seanrasmussen.com/willpower/power-of-the-free-will/#comment-16690 Too often choices are based on what the next person is choosing. Not, of course, in the case of working holidays but the common phrase "if ____ jumped off a bridge would you do it?" is used often for a reason. We need to have the will power to stand on our own instead of following the leader. .-= Sarah Butland´s last blog ..<a href="http://sarahbutland.com/blog/2010/03/25/you-are-the-reason-i-know-it-will-happen/" rel="nofollow">You Are the Reason I Know It Will Happen</a> =-. Too often choices are based on what the next person is choosing. Not, of course, in the case of working holidays but the common phrase “if ____ jumped off a bridge would you do it?” is used often for a reason. We need to have the will power to stand on our own instead of following the leader.
.-= Sarah Butland´s last blog ..You Are the Reason I Know It Will Happen =-.

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