For this week, I thought I’d explore delayed gratification. This is the concept of either doing something difficult now so you are grateful you did later or not doing something pleasurable now so you are grateful later. We teach this to children when they’re young when we tell them “if you do your homework now, you can play for the rest of the day.” This is a valuable lesson to learn and one you should continue to employ in your life because it’s the cornerstone of embracing struggle. Although it is difficult for a child to comprehend this logic and it doesn’t get any easier to employ delayed gratification in our lives, it will always reap benefits later. Embracing struggle is doing something difficult now so you can reap the benefits later.