This is the time of year when many of us are working to improve parts of our life, lose weight, quit smoking, get fit, build good habits or change/stop bad habits. But it is not always easy, and whilst some may be struggling a little, others may well have given up already and reverted back to their old, familiar habits and behaviours.

It is our willpower that makes all the difference to our success - the inner strength that enables us to persevere with whatever we are working towards achieving or attempting to resist. Plentiful stores of willpower are essential for making any change, enabling us to reject immediate satisfaction, pleasure or comfort, in order to gain something better, even if it requires effort and time to gain.