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Conscious changes!

By Bamboo In The Wind
It is tempting to do what pleases you. Spending the time the way you please gives you the sense of entitlement that you are in complete control of outcomes that come from it.

You must realize that a random schedule and ensuing actions provide instant gratification. It creates the busyness that creates triggers. But in the process, the randomness makes you lose focus on the importance of non-impulsive, slow, and steady actions.

Non-reactionary actions are thoughtful and are cognizant of their adverse implications. While the short-term outlook is pleasing and provides instant gratification - these outcomes mean little in the longer horizon.

What helps is making a conscious change in how you think and act. The more you know about your need for instant gratification, the more you circumvent that in favor of long-term satisfaction by planting thoughts that focus on minor improvements with doing what is critical and has no immediate gain.

Thinking and acting for no visible immediate gain is challenging and elusive, making us run away from them.

But such actions provide the necessary gains too long in the future, and you will see much more legibly how they benefit. What looked like invisible boost surfaces a significant improvement!

All we need to do is to make a conscious change to avoid thinking of short-term instant gratification!

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