It is early Tuesday morning, the first week in May. If you read this paragraph in the previous edition, you realize I am a month behind in on this chapter. I have been writing almost all day every day since last Thursday, I am barely awake, but I want to keep writing because the deadline for this chapter is very near, I have knowledge and motivation, but to keep going I need a good dose of volition, Volition is an old-fashioned word for will-power . The more technical definition for volition is protecting opportunities to reach goals.