What is the one skill that, if you have it, will completely change your life?

If you wish to transform your life forever, you need to develop one skill viz.

THE SKILL TO POSTPONE YOUR GRATIFICATION

We are all animals unless we have developed the ability to postpone our gratification.

The animals are driven by their instincts which require the instant satisfaction of their desires. However, we as human beings know the benefits of enjoying the fruits at a later date by postponing the instant fulfillment of our desires of the moment.

When you deposit part of income in your bank account by postponing your gratification to enjoy the wealth immediately, you reap many fold more wealth at the time of your need

When you control your anger and avoid shouting on your children or spouse, you reap the harvest of strong relationships for life

When you postpone the temptation of eating the tastiest food to satisfy your taste-buds, you gain tremendously by having a good health for life

When you postpone your gratification to enjoy a little more sleep in the morning, you can do walking and work-out and make your body and mind healthier

When you postpone your sensual gratification due to your lust, you build higher moral values for yourself and earn respect from the society

When you postpone the gratification of getting illegal money through corruption and crime, you ensure an honourable life for yourself and make it peaceful and blessed

When you postpone the gratification of enjoyment for the sake of studies, you become knowledgeable and wise in due course of time enjoying much better quality of life

When you can postpone your gratification to retaliate for every act done against you, you become a good person in your life

The difference between a good and bad person, a saint and a sinner, a law-abiding person and a criminal lies in the way he/she handles the gratification or the urge to satisfy the basic instinct.

If you can master your gratification by simply learning to postpone it till it is reduced or dissipated in due course of time, you are a changed man.

Welcome to the new world of love, reason, justice and goodness.