Stepping Off The Treadmill Of Instant Gratification

" We’ve become so addicted to instant gratification that we’re blind to the impact it has on our lives." Frank Sonnenberg

Happy Friday you guys!
Today is a very epic day in Montreal as it marks the warmest day of the year so far!
No less than 11 degrees!🌞🌡
I feel alive and words fail to describe how thankful I am for spring to be right around the corner.🌠🌼

Today I felt like sharing my thoughts on something that has become an epidemic in today's day and age: instant gratification. If given the chance, we would inject this addictive substance in our veins over and over again. Even if it was to last a very short amount of time. Because hey, let's face it, what's more pleasurable than experiencing pleasure right now?

I have an answer for that. Discipline it is.
I have found more pleasure from exercising my willpower on a day to day basis than I have found from getting the all too easy quick fixes. There's a deep form of satisfaction that comes from training your mind to resist the things that it is naturally drawn toward. Anything that comes around too easily does not hold much value.
We all have our weak spots. Once you know what they are, you can gradually train your mind to change its instant response to the stimuli in particular that make your self-control go a little weak.

The digital world alone has provided us with endless ways of getting our instant needs met right away.
You want food? You can get it delivered to your door in the next half hour.
Feeling lonely tonight? Swipe right.
Having that urge to blow some $? Amazon is only a click away.
In need of some approval or validation? How about sharing with your social media friends your new professional achievement?

These are only a few examples, but they illustrate the fact that we have been conditioned to get what we want, when we want it, where we want it.
Patience? Persistence? Why persist when you can just find another way that will lead you to what you want in the end?
And here we are, finding ourselves (consciously or not) swinging from one gratification to the next, while forgetting about the impact that it will have on our selves.