Willpower and Self-Control

Because you don't have infinite willpower.

There's quite a bit of evidence that willpower is a limited resource [1]. Eg if you're on a diet and have to resist eating chocolate, you'll accomplish less at work. So solutions that let you get away without having to exercise self-control are much more useful than solutions that require expending willpower.[1]: <a href="http://scholar.google.com/scholar?q=willpower+limited+resource&hl=en&as_sdt=0&as_vis=1&oi=scholart&sa=X&ei=t4aBT9y2LeTK0AG1wfiACA&sqi=2&ved=0

Will power is not a thing, its a concept and have to do with much more subtle nuances of the human mind. This is where you are going wrong. You cant just will yourself to do something if other urges are sronger. What you can do is remove the things that obstructs you from doing the "right" things. You are simplifying something much more complex.

That sounds like a self-discipline problem.

Maybe work on leveling up your willpower

I found this really helpful to change the way I look at willpower.https://psyche.co/ideas/the-best-way-to-exercise-self-contro...

You may want to work on your self-discipline. If you quit anything that is not entertaining enough you are limiting yourself a great deal.

There is absolutely virtue in spending willpower to make your body do something it doesn’t want to do - maintaining and developing self control and autonomy. Imagine if there was no way to develop self-discipline, you’d be at the whims of your environment and the world would be nothing but chaos.

I think this might be better mindset to approach it, instead of pure will power. correct or not.

so youve got the willpower to do something about it but not enough to just stop doing it?