How Are Willing and Willful Similar and Different?

Recognizing the difference between willing and willful is important to conscious reality creation

Recognizing the difference between willing and willful is important.

Each of these ideas has its own time and place. But when they are misused, they can be detrimental to anything you might be attempting to create.

What are willing and willful, and how do they differ?

Dictionary.com gives us this:

Willing (adjective)

• disposed or consenting; inclined
• cheerfully consenting or ready
• done, given, borne, used, etc., with cheerful readiness

Willful (adjective)

• deliberate, voluntary, or intentional
• unreasonably stubborn or headstrong; self-willed

Willingness is the presentation of inclination and consent; willfulness is the presentation of an intentional act, but also can be stubborn and headstrong.

Willfulness can be good in the face of difficult odds, but it can also be too much, and as such, unhealthy.

While willingness is a consenting readiness, it can also, unchecked, leave you being a doormat under someone else’s boots.