When Stress Steals Your Willpower (and How to Steal It Back)

You know that feeling when you promise yourself you’ll start the thing - go for the run, write the post, finally open the spreadsheet. And somehow… you just don’t?

You’re not broken. You’re stressed.

And stress, inconveniently, is the fastest way to short-circuit the very brain systems you need to follow through.

We call it “lack of motivation,” “decision fatigue,” “self-sabotage.”
The body calls it defence.