Will Power #AtoZChallenge @AprilA2Z
My theme for this year’s Blogging from A to Z April Challenge is Cultivating Happiness. Today, W is for Will Power.
His heart skipped a beat.
He couldn’t get his fill of looking.
He knew it was not right, it could not be.
Head held low and moving on would be best.
Still his heart was in denial.
His head, however knew that he must turn down the sinfully rich brownie that was calling his name.
A Word to the Wise
Increase your capacity to set goals and then move towards achieving them. Improving your self-discipline will also boost your self-esteem which leads to satisfaction and happiness.
You can check out my A-Z posts thus far by clicking on a highlighted letter!
April 27, 2016 12:33 pm|
Good for him. Nicely demonstrated the will power!
I’d not have that will power for a chocolate brownie. 🙂 I might be able to walk past jalebis or laddoos, even a non-chocolate pastry, but it’d be very very difficult to walk past a chocolate brownie 😀
May 2, 2016 5:22 pm|
Yeah, it takes a lot to practice restrain when there’s something like chocolate brownie in front of you 🙂
April 27, 2016 1:04 pm|
LOL! Another good one. I like that “sinfully rich brownie” 🙂
@JazzFeathers
The Old Shelter – Jazz Age Jazz
May 2, 2016 5:23 pm|
Thanks, glad you liked this 55er and sinfully rich brownie too 🙂
April 27, 2016 1:38 pm|
Aww.. brownie it was 🙂
May 2, 2016 5:24 pm|
Yesss 😀
April 27, 2016 1:50 pm|
you chose a powerful word shilpa ! and loved the way you expressed in this post… I too struggle when it comes to sweets 🙂
May 2, 2016 5:24 pm|
Thank you, Genevive, glad you liked this post. Yes, I have trouble resisting sweets too! *sigh*
April 27, 2016 3:19 pm|
Where sinfully rich brownies are concerned, I have zero willpower. 😉
May 2, 2016 5:24 pm|
Same pinch 😀
April 27, 2016 4:00 pm|
Oh, do I feel that pain!
May 2, 2016 5:25 pm|
Aah! Me too! Sad for him!
April 27, 2016 4:12 pm|
My will power always fails in front of a brownie or any dessert!!
Tina from Twinkling Tina Cooks
May 2, 2016 5:25 pm|
Aah! You too, Tina!! 😀
April 27, 2016 5:03 pm|
Chocolate brownies have a way of jumping into my hand and mouth before I can say no .. will power, what’s that?
Thank you Shilpa for looking after all of us in the A-Z!!!!
May 2, 2016 5:27 pm|
Hahaha.. I am imagining the brownie to jump into my hand and mouth, right now 😀
April 27, 2016 5:28 pm|
nice quote
http://www.obliqview.blogspot.in
May 2, 2016 5:27 pm|
Glad you liked it 🙂
April 27, 2016 6:44 pm|
Will power, more and more I realise the importance of nurturing it. Great post Shilpa 🙂
http://www.sunilavigauthor.blogspot.com.au/2016/04/wonder-of-mythology-letter-w-of-a-to-z.html
May 2, 2016 5:30 pm|
Agree with you completely, Sunila, for our success in life depends on us more than any other external factors and strong determination can take us places! Glad you liked this post! 🙂
April 27, 2016 7:08 pm|
That’s me me me.
May 2, 2016 5:32 pm|
And meeeee toooo!! 😐
April 27, 2016 7:12 pm|
Hehehe….I could not have done it! Brave man that resisted the brownie! 😉
@KalaRavi16 from
Relax-N-Rave
May 2, 2016 5:32 pm|
Brave and determined he must be!! 😀
April 27, 2016 7:22 pm|
Hi Shilpa,
It’s nice to make your acquaintance. I found your blog through Heather Gardner. This is my first time doing the challenge and I wanted to thank all of you who helped make it a success. Love your theme and especially today’s. Sheer willpower has been the thing that kept me going many times through the years. Thanks for sharing such an inspirational post.
May 2, 2016 5:37 pm|
Hey Sheila. Good to meet you here. Glad you enjoyed this challenge. Thanks a lot, am happy that you liked the theme and today’s post! Your experience and (I have experienced it too) proved that courage, will-power and confidence in our abilities help us scale great heights. Thank you for sharing your thought 🙂
May 2, 2016 5:54 pm|
It was my pleasure!
May 2, 2016 5:59 pm|
🙂
April 27, 2016 7:28 pm|
I completely relate to this one because I have brownies sitting in the kitchen and I’m pretty sure they are calling me right now.
~Ninja Minion Patricia Lynne aka Patricia Josephine~
Story Dam
Patricia Lynne, Indie Author
May 2, 2016 5:37 pm|
Aha! Dont disappoint them, please 😀
April 27, 2016 7:53 pm|
In that situation, the brownie always wins!
My A-Z story features 4 neglected W words
My friend Rosey has had a go too – Wobbly Wosey!
May 2, 2016 5:38 pm|
Yes, they do, always!! 😛
April 27, 2016 9:18 pm|
With me, you just know this is fiction 🙂
May 2, 2016 5:39 pm|
Hahaha, it is for most of us 😀
April 27, 2016 9:48 pm|
O man!!! Brownie.. at this hour of the day.. not fair! I’m craving for it now!
Good one for sure 🙂
Cheers
May 2, 2016 5:39 pm|
Hope you had something sweet if not a brownie at that hour 😀
April 27, 2016 10:16 pm|
Yes yes W is for weight and W is for will power 🙂
May 2, 2016 5:40 pm|
I wish that Weight didnt come in picture! 😐
April 28, 2016 11:58 am|
🙂 A brilliant post
Sudha from
Everyday Muse
May 2, 2016 5:40 pm|
Thanks Sudha 🙂
April 28, 2016 2:23 pm|
What a lovely twist! 😀
I have no self – control when it comes to eating junk food or chips or cold drinks or anything that I’m not supposed to eat. Did I mention that I love anything with chocolate in it? 🙂
May 2, 2016 5:42 pm|
You can eat all that and much more… age is by your side… it’s people like us who have to look the other way 🙁
Thanks, Mithila. Glad you liked this 55er 🙂
April 28, 2016 6:04 pm|
haha…brownie..is it? Good one Shilpa! and your wise words are so true…and i am working on it though i cheat sometimes:)
May 2, 2016 5:43 pm|
Cheating sometimes is ok… but my sometimes becomes most of the time. *Sigh*
Thanks Asha. Glad you liked this one 🙂
April 28, 2016 8:48 pm|
these days my “won’t” power has been winning over my will power! So much has gone inside me during the holidays that I will need eternity to work it off!
May 2, 2016 5:46 pm|
Holidays are meant to be enjoyed. I am sure you will be able to knock off all the extras real soon 🙂
April 29, 2016 11:47 am|
Oh man. Quite some will power that 😛
May 2, 2016 5:46 pm|
Hmmm…. true that! 😀
May 1, 2016 1:30 am|
Aahhh.. What a twist! But very wise words.
May 2, 2016 5:46 pm|
Thanks Samara, glad you liked the twist 🙂