To achieve something great, you have to be willing to sacrifice things that you want in the present moment. You have to be able to delay gratification and put in the hard work now in order to achieve your long-term goals. This is not an easy thing to do, but it is necessary if you want to be successful. Why Is Delaying Gratification So Hard? Delaying gratification is hard because it goes against our natural

Friends are the family you get to choose. Good friendships make life meaningful, joyous, and fun. They become the people we live life with and begin to rely on. But good friends aren’t only important for making good times even better. Rather, true friends also play a pivotal role during hard times. In fact, it is when you find yourself in a challenging time, that you can identify who truly is a real friend, and

How many people do you think you interact with in a year? If you just interact with one new person each day, it adds up to 365 new people every year. Over the course of your life, you’ll end up interacting with thousands of people. A handful might stay as close friends and others might become faint memories. But as you go through life, one of the most important skills is to be able to

Have you ever had a day where you planned to rest, stay home, and do nothing? We all get exhausted with our daily lives and we often crave that one day when we will do absolutely nothing. Finally, that day comes around, and we sleep in, scroll on our phones, and stay in bed. But by 8 pm, rather than feeling rested and energized, we feel exhausted! If you have had those days where you

Every now and again I lurk around subreddits for relationship advice, just out of curiosity. What’s fascinating to me is a common theme I see where people in these relationships put up with some seriously horrible behavior. Provided that their side of the story is accurate, some people are dealing with some serious boundary violations and shitty treatment. And when the author includes information about red flags they have seen along the way, they don’t

Remember when you were a child and the world seemed like a magical place? The toy shop was like a playground, school was fun and you were completely carefree. Most parents try to protect their children from the struggles and challenges of life. They avoid the disturbing truths present in society and try to shield their children from what might be uncomfortable. However, doing this doesn’t make the world any different. At the end of

We live in a world full of diversity. Everyone is unique in some way or the other. There are young people, old people, the rich, the poor, entrepreneurs, students, employees, the married, the singles, and everyone in between. We have more than 7 billion people on the planet, and every single human being is different in their own way. Yet, there is one common thread: we all crave happiness. Every action we take can be

Do you ever find yourself wishing you were more talkative, outgoing, or confident? Or maybe you think you are too loud and wish you could be more chill as a person. Perhaps you wish you were more logical and analytical, or maybe you wish you were more creative. These thoughts plague everyone. We wish we were morelike the other person next to us. We agonize, overthink, and even try to change ourselves. Over time, we