 Hey what's up guys if you haven't already make sure to subscribe to this channel leave a comment below I want to be talking today about instant gratification long-term thinking because I think right now We're in a huge mess and that problem is everybody's looking for that instant fix just like a heroin addict Just look around you everybody's on their phone looking for that next tweet or that next facebook message or email In fact, they did a study not too long ago looking on blackberries And they saw that the person that saw the flashing blue dot They had the same release of dopamine as if an individual who was doing cocaine So just keep that in mind and look a you know, let's just look at a couple examples in life Let's look at the entrepreneurial space a lot of people are entering this space putting in like six months of your time And looking for that, you know big home run they're looking for that 10 million hundred million dollar exit Um, you know gary v talks about this like are you are you kidding me? Give me a break You think just you putting in six months and that's it and you give up, you know Keep this in mind the norm in the entrepreneurial space the norm This is the normal people the norm is a male in his mid-40 who has gone through bankruptcy twice That runs a business between 1 million to 10 million. That's the norm of an entrepreneur globally Just keep that in mind That's the norm the people that you see in silicon valley Those are those aren't even outliers or the outliers or the outliers are the 0.1 percent of the 1 percenters, okay If let's look at people who want to get back into shape They go on a diet, you know new year's resolution as right now in month of january new year's resolution Let's let's do a crash course diet. Let's go to the gym, etc March comes around and they give up. They're like, oh, it's not working 90 days and like that's it Let's look at relationships, you know people they date or whatever they do and You know relationships are tough. I've been in relationship 60 years right now It's ups and downs smiles and frowns and yeah, it's a roller coaster and anybody who's been in a long-term relationship They'll tell you that there's not just all hugs and kisses no It's two human beings living together and two human beings spirits and emotions coming together on a daily basis so it's very difficult and For you to think oh just because you get in one fight to break up the relationship Is that really wise? Supplicable to everything in life or whether whatever you're trying to accomplish in life Whether it's building wealth whether it's building a better body whether it's building friends You know, that's a big one right now There's a lot of people looking for these quick friends and you see all these networking events They go around you look over your shoulder and you know that's a person to fucking stay away from If you look over your shoulder trying to find the next hunt Um, our friendship is built through experiences together through crying together through sharing Amazing experiences that you guys all gone together and this is why You know people in the military or people who've gone through actually horrific Both horrific and amazing experience They create deeper bonds and I highly recommend if you want to create deeper bonds where your friends go through Amazing experiences together but going back to the instant gratification thing You know if I had to rewind my life One of the one of the first things or one of the major things I would change in my life was thinking long term And kind of eliminating the instant gratification because I think the underlining root problem of instant gratification Is the fact that the fear the fear of actually putting in the work and see a lot of times people make a cop out I like it's too hard and I don't think so. It's too hard I don't think so that's a problem a lot of people make the cop out on the fact that they know It's going to take a very long time to accomplish that and us humans We're lazy motherfuckers and we don't like to put in the time for very long durations So, you know, if I had to rewind my life I did a many things from club business promotion business construction business electrical business All these other crazy businesses. I had like 10 fingers and 10 different pots But none of them was super long term because I knew subconsciously that I had to put x amount of time and you know That's no fun. That's not rock and roll lifestyle and this applies anything like, you know, we get bored very easily But if we're looking at a problem, there's always a root cause to a problem So the problem right now is the instant gratification is like we want everything right now this second But why is that problem there? And for the most part, it has to deal with you as an individual as one as as as As a spiritual being and the underlining problem for the most part is You don't want to commit for long term You feel trapped and a lot of times you feel lost because you don't have the blueprint or the roadmap to actually go from eight to b and the great thing about You actually coming to terms with the underlining issues that you have is you can actually now create a plan Ray Dalio and I mentioned this in my last video in uh principles part two He talks about having this system which he runs bridge water and the system is quite simple It's like listen you have this objective or you have this plan and this plan is like Let's make an example right now examples. We want to build a business So our plan is we want to build this business and we want to have a thousand customers So that's our painted picture as Cameron Harrell talks about So we had this painted picture and we want to have a thousand customers, etc How are we going to get there? So we make the roadmap. Okay, so we're going to need x amount employees We need this much capital Okay, great. Now, how are we going to execute that? How does that look? So at the end you're left with this blueprint But the most beautiful thing about this blueprint is you're actually overseeing the blueprint It's you viewing down on the blueprint and it creates a negative feedback system And this can be applied to Anything I mean anything in life when you look at like instant gratification ask yourself like for example Why do you want to have a body right away? Like Why are you afraid to continue eating a certain way and training a certain way for the rest of your life as opposed to having these crash courses Why is it that you have to make a new year's resolution? Like what is the underlying issue? Like why can't you stick on a sustainable diet that works for you? You know just for you. Why can't you stick to a sustainable workout regime that works just for you? So you have to figure out these underlining issues Same thing going through relationships. Like let's say you notice a pattern. We're like, all right girlfriend boyfriend girlfriend boyfriend whatever and you notice that Majority of time it's you breaking up. Well, what's the underlining issue there? Can you identify maybe one or two things that You can figure out why you keep on leaving these people a great exercise for this is what victor frankl talks about What he calls the logotherapy or modern terms you can call it just journaling and I think journaling And you don't have to have any Any model for journaling you can just start journaling down your ideas What comes out of your head or we call it a mind dump, you know, for example, just write down like I you know I I broke up with this person that person and just started just mind dump your thoughts on the paper and see what comes out from this but Yeah, I think I think you know for viewing society right now Where it's heading with this whole instant gratification me me me We're in big trouble You can just see right now with the social justice warriors or how's tim ferris calls them bigotiers Which are like much better and from now on in I will be calling them bigotiers So if we look at these bigotiers right now, they are all looking for instant gratification They're all narcissists. They're like me me me me and obviously they have a lot of Mommy issues daddy issues self-identification issues with themselves and they don't love themselves And they're trying to point fingers other people There's a greek saying for every finger you point to somebody three or pointing back at you But they're looking for that instant fix like I want it now I want this now. I want you to call me this or I want you to do that And they're screaming like a little baby or a little kid I want all this and that leads to a lot of issues in society that leads to in groups Where you have one group here and one group there fighting each other And this applies to everything as soon as anybody is looking for an instant high instant fix You are going to be creating psychological mental issues in those human beings And I think the best place to start to fix this is honestly starting with our Starting with you actually as an individual, you know focus on one thing in your life because you can't just transform your life You know for me, I'm born naturally as an instant gratification individual So for me to kind of break my cycles, I focus on one thing at a time, you know Especially for business focusing on that like how can I create a sustainable business? How can I create something that I love that I can sustain myself for years on in and how can I create other businesses the same way? Like that where it's long-term thinking focusing on maybe one or two different one or two things And just keeping my attention and keeping me motivated during that. Yeah, but to summarize the whole thing with instant gratification is it's it's a motherfucker and hopefully you can identify a couple of of habits in your life they have for instant instant gratification and Slowly and surely start working on that. All right guys, there you have it. Leave a comment below this video. Peace