the delayed gratification ....

We want it all right now.  I know I do.  Classic junkie!

I know some children that have it in reverse. They supervise their parents in the grocery store and will make you question your love for them when they pass the candy, and you tell them to come on? Not now! Dinner is in an hour.

They are natural salesmen that turn into little manipulators and make you value your freedom.  Pull off the shoe and beat your child in today's world, and it's over, but for hundreds of years prior it was the norm.  We have so evolved.   

They instantly put you in the box of high pressure sales tactics. Buy now! Relent, you little bitch parent. Give me the candy or suffer. 

As adults, we carry that through from our childhood.  Always wanting what we don't have. Always in the necessity of now. There is even a cult therapy that is called "shopping".  People find comfort in buying things to feed their emotions, even if they don't have the cash on hand. They have the card. 

"Interest free", "pay later", "no credit needed"! Just buy, buy, buy and guess what buy some more!

There is no equation to sustainability in this.  What you end up is with a bunch of low level purchases of shit you don't need, bankruptcy, and a version of the American dream that we see but never speak of. 

The two-car garage that you can't park in that houses all our shit we never use. 

The facts are the facts.  Anything great that we are going to try to accomplish requires some delayed gratification.  If we are looking for achievement, it requires the ability to delay and say "no" at the moment or for a greater period of time. 

Losing weight?  "No" to the cake.

Wanting a car? "NO" to the weekends for pizza and beer for the boys.

Wanting a sustainable relationship? "No" to the people that look good but are toxic as fuck!

Got a drug problem?  They made a program, DARE, to say "NO".

Many of these are lifelong "NO's". Some are rather simple, but not entirely easy for some of us, but how about others?

I want to own my own company. 

I want to be in the best physical shape ever.

I desire above all to be the best in my chosen space.

I want to flip real estate. I want to be mentally strong and have an everlasting gain in my education, the pursuit of excellence and my expanse with helping the community. 

Big Goals, huge dreams. Greater responsibilities.  They all start with your ability to do with less for a period of time to gain greater later.  It becomes a matter of grit.  Greatness Really Is Tough. 

How long can you stay in the game with the littlest amount needed so that you can get the biggest return possible?

How many weekends can I stay working rather than partying like everyone else? How many workshops can I attend? How much of my free time will I dedicate daily to reading something that will give me a skill. 

You got to play it out.  You got to have vision.  You must keep the prize in front of you.  You translate the suffering into purpose.

The purpose is for you to achieve the long term goals that are the ones of your dreams.  The purpose is to quit all the useless shit that has no real "value" so you can quit sitting around and wondering why you are not where you want to be. 

Voiding the victim mindset that we all have at times, you plot the coordinates of where you want to be and set forth with a course of action.  All the other shit that is not leading to your destination, you quit.  You become your greatest advocate and champion by saying "no" because now you are purpose driven and instead of talking about your dreams, you begin living them. 

Think of how much farther you would be if you worked half the weekends that everyone else takes off.  Would you be 26 percent greater? Or would you be 26 times greater than everyone else?

If the average American reads one book a year, and you read one once a week, wouldn't you be 52 times smarter than the average American?

If you saved the 200 dollars you usually spend on the weekend doing whatever and did it for a year, do you think 10400.00 would be a down payment on a rental property?  What if you did it for 5 years?  What would your value be then?

The long term application of doing the mundane will over time repay you with what you actually are dreaming of.  

And just how long is a year or even 5 years when what is left afterward is the life of your dreams?  The body of your dreams? The home of your dreams? The career of legends!

It just makes sense.  Learn to delay for the future, and before you know it you will be sitting on the mountain of achievement.