Achieve Breakthrough Using Delayed Gratification Give Away Rights Ebook

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Even though instant gratification is practiced by most people, it has its number of disadvantages. First of all, it allows us to believe that we don’t need to work hard in order to achieve what we want and it also takes our mind off the things that are important for us and as a result we don’t value these things. Let’s make this concept clear with a very common example of Gambling-

Gambling is one of the greatest examples of instant gratification. You pick some cards, you bet some money and after a roll of some dice you win a bunch of money.

Sometimes people do win big money in gambling, but as you can see, they are very likely to use the same money to gamble again. We all know what happens at the end of game. They walk home either with little money or loose more than they won. Why? Because there was no hard work behind the winning and the person value the money enough and used it to continue to gamble.

Now imagine someone who is saving money for a particular thing or a lifelong dream. Do you think anyone who is saving money would give this less importance to money? No, they would spend their money carefully according to a plan and would pay great attention to how they are using the money because they gave their time and efforts to save this money and delayed their urge to buy something immediately to make sure they use it wisely.

People who practice instant gratification make a theory that high rewards can be earned with little amount of work. And this is the thought that keeps them from achieving greater rewards. This thought has high impact on practicing people their entire life.

Eating junk food instead of cooking healthy food for you results in increased probability of heart diseases and diabetes. If you just complete the assigned work with no quality at work to get the month’s salary, then you can have it but you also miss the chance to gain some recognition and possible promotions or salary raises.

While on the other hand, people who practice delayed gratification knows the value of hard work and high rewards. And if you compare the similar life styles again, you can see that they will choose to cook healthy meals for themselves instead of just eating out every day at some fast food joint to keep them healthy. People who practice delayed gratification would work hard at their jobs to get higher paychecks and possible promotions.

With delaying the rewards you also learn to learn to value the outcome of the wait since you have made so many efforts for it and you have waited for so long for it. That is why you know the result should be worth all this wait and efforts.

For example, imagine a kid who bought a new phone from his own savings and another kid who got the same phone from his parents. The first kid will make sure to take good care of his phone while the second kid doesn’t care at all. Now we can easily assume who is going to take better care of his phone.

The person who is practicing delayed gratification takes the outcome of any event seriously and values the result in the best possible manner. Therefore upon receiving your paycheck, instead of just spending the money on random things that seem important momentarily, you save the money for a bigger event. And sometime in that week you will realize that the first thing you thought of spending the money on was not even worth buying. Now since you didn’t make any stupid decisions with your paycheck money, real soon you will find yourself with a big amount of money to do something meaningful with. You can even take this delayed gratification one step ahead by investing the money into something like bonds, bank accounts, share market stocks, etc.

You can now see the benefits that you get when you start practicing delayed gratification. And all that was required was to take a step back from the trees to get a look at the bigger picture. Instant rewards blind you from seeing further in the future and you can see only the things that are available to you at that time while delayed gratification allows you to see through every possibility and to choose the best one possible. It also allows you to see how every action that you take is going to contribute to your path of reaching the desired goal. The same practice also helps you to improve quality of your actions in every aspect of life.

Once you start with the delayed gratification you find out that it was never really that hard to apply and you possess everything that you need to leave the affection for immediate gratification behind you because we know very well that everything in this world worth having comes with effort.

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