uccess With Money
uccess With Money
Your Personal Guide to Achieving Success With Your Money and Your Life
Here is an important question. How is it possible to change our desire for instant gratification into a preference for long term positive results? To tell the truth, it’s not easy! But it is well worth the effort.
Like a lot of folks I have to fight the battle of the bulge (like around the waist line). It is so easy to let that instant satisfaction found in a sack of Doritos or a bag of cashews replace my otherwise great common sense about good eating habits. But then I begin to pay the consequences.
As my weight gains I literally begin to suffer. A lower back injury I suffered many years ago brings on considerable pain whenever the scale reaches a certain point. I assure you the long time pain is not worth the short time pleasure, but it is easy to get there.
Paul J. Meyer, one of the great students of human achievement, often points out that no one does anything except to avoid a loss or to gain a benefit. Simple, isn't it. But it gets complicated when we start talking about money exactly because of the issue of instant gratification.
For the sake of a small gain now, people often give up a large gain in the future. Rather than make the relatively small sacrifice of funding their IRA now instead of buying a few unnecessary “things,” they give up the opportunity of living 20 or 30 years in a comfortable, enjoyable retirement and spend their last years in poverty instead.
Try these affirmations to strengthen yourself for good decisions in the face of instant gratification attacks:
Repeat these affirmations daily for at least a month and weekly thereafter for at least several months.
Earl Nightingale was possessed with great human insight and it was a joy to listen to his motivational radio broadcasts until his death just a few years ago. His theme was that we become what we think about. And it is a great truth.
If you keep thinking that becoming successful with money is a hard and unpleasant necessity, it will be so. In fact, if you keep thinking that way you will probably fail as you get tired of the effort and decide to quit trying.
On the other hand, if you keep you mind focused on your long term goals and learn to value the day to day execution of your long term plans, your success is guaranteed.
