Examine any situation or state of consciousness you might be in and ask yourself, what is the purpose of this?  What am I intended to learn here?  What am I to contribute?
 

Align your personal will with God’s will and with your highest purpose.
 

Visualize yourself with a strong and skillful will; see yourself acting with courage, determination, and discipline in specific activities.
 

Create challenges and overcome them:

	Create physical challenges:  Walk three miles, lift heavy objects, resist a physical desire such as eating or drinking, etc.
	Create emotional challenges: Practice loving someone you are jealous of; stop gossiping or slandering others, do something you find frightening; etc.
	Create mental challenges: Read a difficult book, take a challenging course, listen carefully to a different political point of view, etc.

When you promise something, do it--when you are not keeping your promises, you are letting your physical, emotional or mental bodies control you.
 

Persevere: when you start something finish it--this increases and cultivates your willpower.
 

Take a stand on your values--practice standing up for what you believe, challenging (lovingly) those with whom you disagree, speaking up and being heard about both large and small things.