<p>The good things are </p><p>Getting in shape</p><p>Getting a promotion</p><p>Looking more attractive</p><p>Being successful</p>

What are those good things?

<p>There is no such thing called overnight success.</p><p>It takes time and effort to achieve success. Many celebrities had to grind hard to achieve success.</p>

Overnight success 

<p>Delayed gratification means those activities which do not provide fun at the moment but provides a sense of fulfillment later on.</p>

Delayed gratification 

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I will start the article with an example.</div><div><b dir="ltr"><u dir="ltr">Example</u>&nbsp;</b></div><div dir="ltr">Let there be two guys <b dir="ltr">Trevor</b> and <b dir="ltr">Noah</b>. Both of them want to attract girls but they both take completely opposite ways. Both of them are in their teens but both live a very different life.</div><div><b>Trevor</b></div><div>Trevor's lifestyle is just like all the other teens. He goes out to parties, eats junk food(like me), goes to birthdays, does not exercise or meditate. Trevor has no intention of improving his life because no one among his friends does it.</div><div>Trevor also suffers from depression, looks like shit, has a really bad acne, is skinny, does not have a lot of knowledge and has a terrible hairstyle.</div><div>Trevor always tries to attract girls and so he chases after them and in turn girls call him a freak. Trevor attends every party in an attempt to get a girlfriend but fails miserably everytime.</div><div><b>Noah</b></div><div>Unlike Trevor, Noah goes to bed early and wakes up early, he does his homework properly. Although he attends some parties but he does not go into every party possible.</div><div>Noah believes that in order to attract high quality women, he himself needs to be high quality, so he works on himself.&nbsp;</div><div>Noah goes to the gym, eats clean, has a good facial routine, has a good dressing sense and now he is attracting almost every girl in his school.</div><div>But this didn't happen overnight. It took him months to get to this level and notice the results but was it worth it. Yes! Absolutely yes!</div><img src="https://lh3.googleusercontent.com/-l2-_7opEBT8/YlhBribhdTI/AAAAAAAAAFk/tfnJXYUQVnwJ14r2owN2lFrvAWdYML07wCNcBGAsYHQ/s1600/1649951140340350-0.png" width="400" height="600"><div dir="ltr">&nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; &nbsp; Photo by&nbsp;<a href="https://www.pexels.com/photo/man-in-red-and-white-striped-polo-shirt-holding-knife-9388387/" dir="ltr">Kübra G.</a></div><div>Now it's time for the lesson.&nbsp;</div><div>Look the world ain't so easy. To get something you need to sacrifice some other thing and for a long period of time before you begin to see some results.</div><div>You can't get a good body if you just sit near your television all day and munch on snacks. You need to cut out that time and reinvest it to exercising and you need to do it for a long period of time because good things take time. But is it worth the effort? Yes! Absolutely yes!</div><div dir="ltr">If you have an habit of eating junk food you probably have a terrible skin. But if you cut out junk food and replace it with healthy food you will see your skin improving gradually and your gut health getting better. But it takes time because <i dir="ltr">'good things take time'</i>. But is it worth the effort? Yes! Absolutely yes!</div><div dir="ltr">If you have an habit of staying up till late night you will have bags under your eyes. But if you eradicate staying up till late and sleep a little longer you will notice that the bags under your eyes disappearing. Will it happen in a day? No, because <i dir="ltr">good things take time. </i>Is it worth the effort? Yes! Absolutely yes!</div><div dir="ltr">If you have a habit of mindlessly using your phone during studies (I have this habit 😭). Will your grades improve? No, but if you use that time to study properly,now will your grades improve? Yes, but your grades will not improve in a day it will take time because '<i dir="ltr">good things take time'</i>. Is it worth the effort? Yes! Absolutely yes! (I am trying to follow it too😃)</div><u dir="ltr">The point of <i dir="ltr">'good things take time'</i></u><div dir="ltr">I guess you have got my point after I have explained you with so many examples. If you start your journey of self improvement do not expect any result during the first few months. Be patient and always assume that results will take some time. Think that<i dir="ltr"> 'result'</i> is a slow bit*h and it takes time to catch up.&nbsp;</div><div dir="ltr">During your self development journey if you think that you do not see any results then you should tell yourself that you haven't put that much work yet or just say <i dir="ltr">'good things take time'.&nbsp;</i></div><u>Delayed gratification</u><div dir="ltr">This entire post is actually about <i dir="ltr">delayed gratification.</i></div><div><b>Delayed gratification activities are those activities which do not provide fun at the moment but provides a sense of fulfillment later on.</b></div><div>An example would be, completing your homework or assignment. You don't get any enjoyment when you do your homework or assignment, but after sometime when you have completed that task you feel a sense of relief and accomplishment.</div><div>I too do not feel too good while I write these blog post but after I have finally written and published my post I feel a sense of accomplishment and it's a good thing.</div><div>Another incident where I tell myself that 'good things take time' is when I check my stats for my blog and I don't see any views on my blogs. I feel disappointed at first but then I just tell myself that I haven't worked on my website for that long period of time and also I tell to myself the quote 'good things take time'. This quote has enabled me to publish posts even if I don't see any views on my posts.&nbsp;</div><u>Inspiration</u><div dir="ltr">Use this <i dir="ltr">'good things take time'</i> quote as an inspiration to carry on with your self development journey and to not get disheartened when you don't see the results because <i dir="ltr">'good things take time'.</i></div><div>
Inspiration from&nbsp; life hack I was just reading an article in life hack about how can someone improve all the time and I was really motivated by that article. Let's give you a brief about what I learnt: In the&nbsp; article &nbsp;the author Kris Sturmney the founder of&nbsp; 1stman &nbsp;has told about how can one improve 24 hours a day. I was very inspired by that article that it's even possible to improve 24 hours a day and I thought let's tell you guys about it. In the article Kris tells tells us how an average 9-5 worker can improve his day. But here I will write about the 9-5 worker, entrepreneur and a student like me.             How can a 9-5 worker improve his day: Wake up: You wake up and without using your phone with a glass of water ready beside your bed. This benefits health and energy. Morning: You go for a 20 minute walk or run while listening to a podcast or audiobook. Then you return home and prepare a herbal tea. The entire time you make sure that your tongue is on the roof of 
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Skip to the conclusion part if you want only the main details. If you want to learn in-depth then read the complete blog.             Photo by RODNAE Productions from Pexels The average man just wastes his time scrolling on Instagram, stalking girls, watching pointless videos on YouTube, eating junk food all day, doesn't work out, sits like a sloth all day, isn't attractive and doesn't even try to improve himself. Now after reading the above paragraph you probably thought of other people and not of yourself because you probably think you are better than the average but that's just your big fat ego telling you that you are better than average. Let me tell you something, I think most of the men after reading this passage must have probably thought of others and not of themselves. This is because just like you the majority of the people have a big ego due to which they consider themselves better than the average. Let's see if you are higher than average Consider a scal
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Mindfulness by monks:             You have probably seen monks on your phone, tv or if you are lucky enough, then in your real life. Sometimes you have seen them and thought that " How do these people remain so calm? " There is a simple answer to this question. Monks have practiced meditation and mindfulness to such extent that their brains in their normal state is just like a novice person meditating. As monk Takafumi Kawakami has said in a Ted talk "We suffer due to our thoughts of past and worry about future". So our sufferings mostly occur because we are not mindful. In his Ted talk monk Takafumi Kawakami has said that the best practice of developing mindfulness is meditation because it is itself a practice of remaining in the present moment. As our present actions determine our future- what you do today will surely determine your future. I won't go into detail on how to meditate for developing mindfulness but the most common practice is inhaling slowly and 
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<b>Delayed gratification activities are those activities which do not provide fun at the moment but provides a sense of fulfillment later on. </b>

Good things take time

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