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Instant Gratification

4 Things That Are Totally Worth The Wait

Posted 05.16.2013 | Healthy Living
Read More: Success, How to Be Patient, Finding Love, Be Patient, Instant Gratification, Delay Instant Gratification, Dream Job, Have Patience, Patience, Forgiveness, Success and Motivation, Impatience, Healthy Living News

By Sam Ferrigno for HooplaHa.com. Happiness comes to those who wait. These four things are worth delaying that sought-after crave for instant grati...

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'Instant Gratification' -- My, How You've Grown!

Frances Moore Lappe | Posted 04.04.2013 | Green
Read More: Energy, Connection, Instant Gratification, Environment, Green Economy, Green Living, Green Energy, Green News
Frances Moore Lappe

One way of conceiving environmental awareness is that it's all about fighting our desire for instant gratification. But there is another way to think about instant gratification that an ecological worldview opens to us.

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Enough. Stop Interrupting Me!

Connie Dieken | Posted 12.16.2012 | Business
Read More: Rudeness, Vice Presidential Debate, Instant Gratification, Joe Biden, Connie Dieken, The Interrupters, Paul Ryan, Impatience, Influence, Communication, Business News
Connie Dieken

We're living in an impatient, impulsive, instant gratification world. Interrupting, interjecting and talking over others has become the new norm. Seems everybody wants to get a word in edgewise.

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The Remarkable Discovery I Made In An Old Trunk Of Letters

Karen Dukess | Posted 10.08.2012 | Fifty
Read More: Snail Mail, Letters, Listening, Love Letters, Email, Patience, Waiting, Communicating, Instant Gratification, Fifty News
Karen Dukess

I have an old trunk full of letters written to me when I was at camp and at college and living abroad. I have letters written on onion-skin paper and on pages ripped from college notebooks. I have love letters from old boyfriends and letters from friends I never thought I'd lose touch with.

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There Is Great Power to Be Found in Doing the Thing You Don't Want to Do

Dennis Merritt Jones | Posted 06.02.2012 | Healthy Living
Read More: Instant Gratification, Authentic Power, Mindfulness, Procrastination Help, Emotional Wellness, Gps-Soul, Procrastination, Procrastination Quotes, Laziness, Emerson, Action, Mark Twain, Success and Motivation, Procrastinate, Delayed Gratification, Healthy Living News
Dennis Merritt Jones

What "duty" might you perform today that would make you, as Mark Twain says, agreeable with yourself?

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Connection: The Heart of Our Humanity

Gregory Stebbins | Posted 03.13.2012 | Impact
Read More: Staying in Touch, Friendship, Connection, Humanity, Instant Gratification, Impact News
Gregory Stebbins

Once a day, when you're getting ready to text or email someone, call them and talk instead. Better yet, if it's someone at work or someone close to where you are, go over and deliver your message in person.

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Discretionary Income Causing a Values Clash?

Graciela Tiscareno-Sato | Posted 12.27.2011 | Latino Voices
Read More: Holiday Season, Green Living, Instant Gratification, Latino Culture, Financial Literacy, Latino Values, Cultura, Latino Voices News
Graciela Tiscareno-Sato

How do we balance the desire to use our discretionary income to shower our kids with gifts we never had with our desire to continue to teach these important cultural values of conservation and creative reuse?"

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Soul-Talk: Satisfaction Now? Satisfaction Later? Which Is It?

Russell Bishop | Posted 12.23.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Mind.Body.Soul, Instant Gratification, Soul, Soul-Talk, Emotional Intelligence, Gratification, Self-Help, Delayed Gratification, Consciousness, Healthy Living News
Russell Bishop

True gratification is neither immediate nor is it delayed. True gratification is an odd combination of both, an ongoing experience of fulfillment that combines what is in front of you with your larger aspirations in life.

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Don't Give Up: Why Effort Is The Key To Satisfaction

Joe Robinson | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Finding Satisfaction, Instant Gratification, Sustaining Effort, Procrastination, Competence, Autonomy, Self-Motivation, Motivation Inspiration Gratification Motivation Inspiration, Gratification Inspiration, Inspiration, Gratification Motivation, Healthy Living News
Joe Robinson

Effort is your friend. It's the unsung engine of the 40 percent of your potential happiness that you can actually do something about, that's not inherited or the result of circumstantial influences.

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Should We Be Paying Kids To Do Well?

Helene Pavlov, M.D. | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: The National Urban League, Harvard Economist Roland Fryer Jr., Dr Helene Pavlov, Harvard University, Time Magazine, Hospital for Special Surgery, Effort, Read Comprehension, Operation Open Eyeball, Parenting, Instant-Gratification, Reward, Education, Values, Children's Education, Healthy Living News
Helene Pavlov, M.D.

Children -- and adults -- need to know that parents, teachers and others in their lives support and believe that they can succeed and take pleasure in their accomplishments.

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Instant Gratification or Superfluous Distractions?

Carol Hoenig | Posted 05.25.2011 | Books
Read More: Memoir, Instant Gratification, Blog, Writing, Novel, Authors Guide to Planning Book Events, Without Grace, Books News
Carol Hoenig

Many writers have been given an opportunity to be read, discovered and validated, an opportunity that they wouldn't have otherwise gotten had it not b...

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Getting Rich and the Marshmallow

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: College Students, Predicting Wealth, Thomas Stanley, Stanford Department of Psychology, Defined Benefit Plans, Discipline, Marshmallow, Main Street, Waylon Jennings, Payday-Loans, Positive Psychology, Fox Business Network, Millionaire Next Door, Stress, Billy Joe Shaver, Small Business Owners, Nursery School, Positive Thinking, New Yorker, Billy-Joe-Shaver, Instant Gratification, Dna, Defined Benefit, 401k, Cincinnati, Stanford University, Lexington KY, Richmond, Fox Business CNBC, Personal Finance, Payday Lending, Msfs, The New Yorker, Dr. Thomas Stanley, Chfc, Cnbc, Millionaires, Pensions, Kentucky, Payday Loans, Don McNay, Ky, Walter Mischel, Credit Cards, Sub-Prime Mortgages, Bing Nursery School, Delayed Gratification, Clu, Structured Settlements, College Student Credit Cards, Adult ADD, Wall Street, Heredity, Sat, Million Dollar Round Table, Genetics, Certified Structured Settlement Consultant, Cssc, Chartered LIfe Underwriter, Tax-Anticipation-Loans, Defined-Contribution-Plans, Business News
Don McNay

We have a financial system that has played to people's weaknesses. We have allowed people who are prone to instant gratification to have as much credit as they could get their hands on.

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Magic Johnson and the Tax Refund Rip-off

Don McNay | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
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Don McNay

Because of Johnson, the tax refund business might stick around, luring in more millions of Americans.

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"I'm not an Adultolescent!"

Christine Hassler | Posted 11.17.2011 | Healthy Living
Read More: Stereotypes, The Balanced Life, Instant Gratification, Gen Y Work, Gen Y, Twenty-Something Advice, Adultolesence, Work-Life Balance, Entitlement, Healthy Living News
Christine Hassler

I read your posts about adultolescents. As a hard-working member of Gen Y, I feel like I have to overcome a lot of stereotypes like the carefree, irr...

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Instant Games Now Fuel Lottery Business

New York Times | Nelson Schwartz | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Lottery Tickets, Instant Gratification, Instant Games, Casino Betting, Stratch-Off Tickets, Lottery, Business News

With the popularity of traditional lotteries waning across the country, many states are turning to instant games priced at $20, $30 and as high as $50...

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