The old idiom, “There is no time like the present” is quite a profound thought. It could be profoundly good or it could be profoundly bad depending on where you go with it. If we hear in this statement “live for the present,” we will be heading down a dark road of self-indulgence and immediate [...]
One of the greatest challenges for all of us is the tension between immediate gratification and deferred gratification. Over the past few generations there has been a substantial shift from a mindset of deferred gratification to almost an obsession with immediate gratification. There are a number of factors that have contributed to this shift in [...]
