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The Power of Not Now: A Guide To Take Charge of Your Life
In our society, we are constantly looking for instantaneous gratification. We want something and we want it now. We are grown-up kids. Instead of crying of frustration and screaming to the world that we are not getting what we want right now as kids do, we compress this feeling and turn it into bad habits.
We drink, we smoke, we eat badly, we have sex with the wrong people, we blame others for our “bad” life, we binge-watch Netflix, we scroll non-stop on Instagram, we sleep in, and we can go on and on.
That’s one of the big reasons that Social Media is a huge success because it’s part of human nature to look for instantaneous gratification. Every second you get something new, a new piece of content to keep you hooked, and it’s hard to leave. It requires a lot of self-control.
The truth is that if we don’t take back the control, we can miss out on life. We can’t let instantaneous gratification take over, because this can lead us to miss a meaningful life. A life that we are proud to live and that we don’t want to hide from.
So, here is The Power of Not Now.
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