Turn delayed gratification INTO instant gratification.
Gratification Hacking.
How to turn a delayed return environment to an immediate return environment as best as you can.
1) Do long term beneficial things, but get instant gratification from them, therefore allowing you to do them more and reaching your Desirable Outcomes faster.
2) What’s wrong with delayed gratification? Too hard for most people to abide by, there’s too much to consume.
What’s there to consume?
Media, music, food, porn.
What’s so addictive about these?
They don’t take effort, and they provide reward. This soothes us, and people have their own pains, which FEEL healed by these activities.
What’s wrong with FEELING better, but not being better?
Your life isn’t as good as it could be, and you’re never fully present, because there’s always knowledge in your subconscious that you HAVE things to heal from and to improve upon, but are too lazy to try and do it.
So how do you delay gratification, if it’s apparently too hard?
Firstly, understand that the indulgences don’t really make you happy, or at least they’re obvious joys, but not real joys.
Real joy is making passionate, slow and connected love to your partner, rather than worrying about performance or thinking about porn.
Real joy is becoming such a formidable human force, that no-one can tear you down. You’re confident, express an energy that makes others feel safe, comfortable with you and makes them literally act better as people.
Real joy is being so competent, that no event is too much for you, in-fact they all benefit you in some way.
Real joy is being content without indulgences, and not relying on them.
Even this laptop, if I didn’t have it, I couldn’t do this thing I love.
But I’d just do it in a note-pad and either keep it to myself or leave the messages in random places for people to find.
I’d adapt.
It feels fucking GOOD when you can adapt.
3) Dopamine detox:
Puts you in the position where simply thinking about temptations as you delay gratification, makes you excited and get that hit.
You also feel a sense of satisfaction that what you’re doing is helping you become a better version of you, which will welcome happiness and Destiny.
Here are some examples:
When you get the urge to watch porn, understand that you’ve been triggered or had a thought.
SIT, and HAVE the thought.
Don’t push it away.
It’s better to have that, then to actually be continuously and vividly watching that shit.
Also, just smelling the goodies in a bakery, rather than buying anything.
Hearing people talk about coffee, but just thinking about “how good a coffee would be right now”.
It’s not necessary.
Indeed, it’s not.
Another example is using Reconditioning Sentences after feeling a tempation.
So yeah, use these after an urge to watch porn, to buy unhealthy stuff, to play video games, at times where you know that it won’t necessarily make you happier, or that you’ve got other stuff to do.
Reconditioning Sentences are:
“I’m so glad that I only like having one good quality coffee per day, rather than several shitty ones. Many people seem to think that they NEED a morning coffee, and then more to wake up. Bullshit, unfortunately, Good luck to them. Now, time to go drink some water and walk around in order to wake up”.
“I’m so glad that I have no desire to watch fake sexual content online. Many people seem to think that it’s okay, when it destroys their perception of what intimacy is, and stops them from even desiring to go connect with others. Good luck to them. Now, time to work on something cool, or go do something that I like”.
“I’m so glad that I can say these Reconditioning Sentences to myself, in order to stop over-indulging in things that don’t really make me happy. Many people seem to just give into consumerism, and believe that they’re “treating themselves” and that these things will make them happy. They know they’re wrong, but they can’t see that. Maybe they just have no greater happiness to compare their current lives with. Good luck to them. Now, let’s do some fucken pushups”.
4) That’s it!
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