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The Exercise of Will-Power and the Role of Sincerity in Implementation · Sri Aurobindo Studies

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  Most people have had the experience.
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  They decide to try a new diet or exercise regimen.
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  They stick with it a few days or weeks and then it seems to get
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  overlooked, forgotten or abandoned.
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  Other things got in the way, or else the impulses cause them to
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  weaken their resolve. How many times people decide to
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  cut out between meal snacks only to find themselves following the
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  old habit? Why does this happen?
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  While we tend to believe that once we make up our mind about
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  something that we can carry it out, we failed to account for
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  the different parts of our being that have their own needs,
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  desires, and pressures to effectuate those desires.
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  The mind may decide on a course of action, but the vital being
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  and the physical being disagree. It is only when all the parts of
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  the being are in alignment on a particular goal or action that
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  it can be put into practice in a complete way.
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  The mother calls this sincerity. Without this type of sincerity,
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  we are pushed and pulled in various directions.
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  We give way to divergent pressures and drives, and we
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  find our good intentions overturned when the vital nature
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  or the body assert their separate directions.
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  A disciple asks sweet mother, how can we make our resolution
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  very firm? The mother observes quote by
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  wanting it to be very firm laughter.
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  Now this seems like a joke, but it is absolutely true. 1 does
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  not want it. Truly, there is always if you.
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  It is a lack of sincerity. If you look sincerely, you will
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  see that you have decided that it will be like this.
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  And then beneath there is something which is not decided
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  at all and is waiting for the second of hesitation in order to
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  rush forward. If you are sincere, if you are
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  sincere and get hold of the part which is hiding, waiting, not
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  showing itself, which knows that there will come a second of
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  indecision when it can rush out and make you do the thing you
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  have decided not to do, But if you really want it, nothing in
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  the world can prevent you from doing what you want.
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  It is because one doesn't know how to will it, and it is
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  because one is divided in one's will.
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  If you are not divided in your will, I say that nothing, nobody
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  in the world can make you change your will.
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  End Quote. Reference Srioro Bindu and the
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  Mother powers within. Chapter 5.
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  Willpower, pages 48 to 49.