SELF CONTROL IS THE #1 PREDICTOR OF SUCCESS IN LIFE
So there you are with a debit card low on cash. You know you need what’s in that card for your weekly gas & lunch. But you run into some friends who say 3 pivotal words : ‘Let’s Graba Beer’. What do you do? A) Tell your friends how about picking up some stuff & partying back at your place. Which will deplete the funds but not wipe them out. Or, because your place is a mess & the real estate section is your butt-wipe, you say
B) YOLO!
YOLO means you’re going to have a swell time until the next morning when you wake up forgetting you NO LONGER have gas cash so you’re now a bus person & you get to work LATE. Which was the WORST possible time to be LATE cause the company owner is there, looking for work to present to an important client. Your office mate, I. M. Talentless, is showing their work & the owner is nodding approvingly. Suddenly, that fried Kimchi slaw that came with the RED wings is THREATENING to rear its SOUR head all over your desk.
The story just gets more depressing from there. The point is, had you practiced SELF-control you could have gone with ‘A’, because your place would have been passably CLEAN. Perhaps not Future-in-Law CLEAN, but certainly PALS hanging out EATING cheap frozen pizza, DRINKING git-n-go beer & lying about the past, CLEAN & the real estate section would be tapped to your fridge. & because you practiced self-control, the next day you would have had left-over pizza for BREAKFAST & a bag LUNCH by mid week. Now because you’re eating lunch at your desk, your manager thinks you must be dedicated & driven & that’s how you end up rep’ing YOUR work to the SPECIAL client.
Always Practice Self-Control Because,
LUCK FAVORS THE PREPARED!
Love, Mama & Pappa