3001: Instant Gratification Wish List: Becoming a Patient Spender by Kumiko Love of The Budget Mom

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🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 13 minutes

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Discover all of the podcasts in our network, search for specific episodes, get the Optimal Living Daily workbook, and learn more at: OLDPodcast.com. Episode 3001: Kumiko Love explores the pervasive culture of instant gratification and its impact on finances. She offers practical tools like Shopping Lists, Wait Lists, and Instant Gratification Wish Lists to help you cultivate patience and make thoughtful spending decisions. By focusing on delayed gratification, you can achieve financial goals while still enjoying occasional treats without guilt. Read along with the original article(s) here: https://www.thebudgetmom.com/instant-gratification-wish-list-becoming-a-patient-spender/ Quotes to ponder: “Getting what we want right now does not make our lives better LATER.” “Delayed gratification is being kind to your future self.” “The goal with the Instant Gratification Wish List is to turn the ‘Instant’ into ‘Anticipated.’” Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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1:00.0	This is Optimal Finance Daily.
1:03.1	Instant gratification wish list.
1:05.7	Becoming a patient spender by Kamiko Love of the Budgetmom.com.
1:12.1	There's absolutely no doubt in anyone's mind that we live in an instant gratification
1:18.0	society. Everything is at our fingertips, just waiting for us to buy it. Movies on demand,
1:25.4	Amazon Prime delivery, fast food on every corner, cell phones and tablets for
1:31.0	continuous entertainment wherever we go. Even I get impatient when videos take more than three
1:37.5	seconds to load. In 1989, Queen sang, I want it all, I want it all, I want it all, and I want it now.
1:47.3	30 years later, this sentiment is even more prevalent than ever.
1:52.2	Author Paul Roberts, who wrote The Impulse Society, states that our entire culture has elevated
1:58.9	immediate gratification to life's primary goal. Everyone is enticed by it,
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