Found the following gems in my notes from Kelly McGonigal’s amazing must-read book, The Willpower Instinct.

• Three biggest enemies of willpower 
  • Temptation 
  • Self criticism 
  • Stress 
• Three most useful skills for self control 
  • Self awareness 
  • Self care 
  • Remembering what matters most – main goal or commitment

The correlation between self-care/self-criticism and self-control/willpower is a good lesson to remember.