Join Dr. Heap for a discussion on how you use positive emotion to refuel your willpower tank during the day!

This podcast is meant to follow an overview of four concepts that will help you maximize the amount of willpower you have to go after your goals and achieve your dreams on a daily basis.  You can watch the recoding here on YouTube.

In this episode, Dr. Heap discusses how to identify some of the small darn its that cause "willpower failure" and block you from making progress towards your goals on a daily basis.  Begin to map out a plan to stop capitulating to these small but significant choices you make in school, with friends/family and loved ones and when it comes to your health/well-being.

If you missed the group meeting or are tuning in online, make sure you listen to the introduction and overview video on willpower so you can get the most out of these podcasts!  You can access the YouTube recording on willpower here.

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Did you know that willpower works as if you have a fuel tank in your head.  When the fuel tank is on full--you can stick to your goals, do things you don't feel like doing, focus well, regulate your emotions and recalibrate when life throws a curve ball at you.  When the fuel tank is on empty, all of these positive things are much less likely (unless you refuel--which is the next topic).

Dr. Heap discusses some practical tips to increase your success by simply being aware of your willpower fuel gauge and "zones of depletion." 

This podcast is meant to be a follow up to the Session Two video located here on YouTube.

We  are moving from goal setting to WILLPOWER!. 

We all mumble to ourselves..."Darn it!  I wish I wouln't have ________!"  Or "Darn It!  I wish I would have __________!" 

Willpower is essential to achieving our goals, and we all understand this is true.  But it is so much more than that.  According to researchers in behavioural neurosicience, our success in every area of life is directly proportionate to the amount of willpower a person possesses.  We can learn to maximize this essential internal resource by understanding the four simple concepts Dr. Heap will discuss in this YouTube video.  

The FIVE TO THRIVE PODCAST will resume tomorrow and build on what you learned in the video.  So let's dial up success and happiness while dialing down your "Darn It's" in daily life.

This is the final episode on intrinsic motivation!  Dr. Heap will discuss how to set the stage for success by doing your research, getting in place what you need and then planning a reward when you have accomplished your goal.

Once you know your what, why and how, now it is time to commit to the goal!  At this point in the intrinsic motivation process, we usually say to ourselves, "I have to make this happen!"

In episode #8, Dr. Heap discusses committing by setting a timeline and holding yourself accountable to your goal!

This episode is meant to be part of a follow up to a longer education session on strengths and goals.  You can find a basic recording of the education session here on YouTube.

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Unless you have a high level of confidence in your ability to achieve your goals, you will procrastinate the small steps it takes to be successful!

In episode #7, Dr. Heap discusses how you can lean into your strengths, talents, past achievements and support system to elevate your confidence in your ability.  A stands for ability in the DARN CATs acronym/process of building intrinsic motivation.

This episode is meant to be part of a follow up to a longer education session on strengths and goals.  You can find a basic recording of the education session here on YouTube.

Don't forget to subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the FIVE TO THRIVE podcast so you don't miss out:) 

In order to build intrinsic motivation, we need to have top of mind why we want to achieve a goal.

Keep a running list of direct and indirect benefits to goal accomplishment.   In this episode, Dr. Heap discusses the "R" and "N" in DARN CATs, so you can create an integrated list of "why's" for all your major goals.

This episode is meant to be part of a follow up to a longer education session on strengths and goals.  You can find a basic recording of the education session here on YouTube.

Don't forget to subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the FIVE TO THRIVE podcast so you don't miss out:) 

Have you ever said, "If I just set my mind to something, I make it happen."  What you are saying is, "If I have a high level of intrinsic motivation to go after a goal, I make it happen, no matter what."  But do you have a process of building this intrinsic motivation so that you can ensure success and accomplishment of all your aspirations? 

In this episode, Dr. Heap overviews a process of building intrinsic motivation drawn from research on motivational interviewing in psychology and therefore, "set your mind" to achieve all your goals.

This episode is meant to be part of a follow up to a longer education session on strengths and goals.  You can find a basic recording of the education session here on YouTube.

Don't forget to subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the FIVE TO THRIVE podcast so you don't miss out:) 

"Just this once won't be that bad!" " I just don't feel like it right now, I'll get to it later."
How many times do we procrastinate or make a small choice that if done over and over again, equals not achieving your big picture goals?

We all do this and psychologists call these small capitualations "epsilon cost choices".  In this episode, Dr. Heap discusses some practical ways you can make sure that these small choice--"just this once"--don't accumulate over time and block you from actualizing those high aspirations you are going for!  "Just one" your way towards, rather than away from your goals.

This episode is meant to be part of a follow up to a longer education session on strengths and goals.  You can find a basic recording of the education session here on YouTube.

Don't forget to subscribe to both the YouTube Channel and the FIVE TO THRIVE podcast so you don't miss out:)