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Now What? Now Wait

Thrive Global

We want—and need—instant gratification. Remember the concept of delaying gratification? Scott Peck writes, “Delaying gratification is a process of scheduling the pain and pleasure of life in such a way as to enhance the pleasure by meeting and experiencing the pain first and getting it over with.”. Wanting it now.

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Remote Work While Parenting and Teaching Kids

ExactHire

In this blog, I’ll share seven tips on how to cope with the challenge before us, as well as kid activities I’ve been curating from friends, Facebook groups and word-of-mouth. The Nintendo time slot in the late afternoon is their delayed gratification reward for doing well throughout the day. 1 – Create structure.

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15 Steps to Prevent Procrastination From Surfacing in Your Leadership

Thrive Global

As it turns out, there is more to this dilly-dallying and shilly-shallying than just a bad habit that provides a sense of immediate gratification. If you do that you will want to delay completing your writing project for fear of it becoming a self-fulfilling prophecy. Do the thing you tend to delay first. Embrace feedback.

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Remote Work While Parenting and Teaching Kids

ExactHire

In this blog, I’ll share seven tips on how to cope with the challenge before us, as well as kid activities I’ve been curating from friends, Facebook groups and word-of-mouth. The Nintendo time slot in the late afternoon is their delayed gratification reward for doing well throughout the day.

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20 Account-Based Marketing Gift Ideas for 2024: Cultivating Strategic Relationships and Sealing the Deal

Xoxoday

  Challenges with the existing referral program Manual reward processing : Xero's referral program relied on manual reward processing, leading to delays and inconsistencies.   Automated reward fulfillment : Real-time reward delivery upon successful referrals eliminated delays and frustrations. Forget swag!

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Help! My Competitor Provides Incentives and I Don’t Like It!

The Incentive Solutions News blog

Effective incentives require you to tap into a few psychological drives, one of those being gratification. Psychological studies have proven that incentives offered immediately are more likely to reinforce behaviors—hence the term “instant gratification.” They deliver incentives faster.

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4 Secrets to HVAC Customer Loyalty Management

The Incentive Solutions News blog

Speed is one of the most impactful factors of a reward-earning experience—with outsourced reward fulfillment services, you don’t have to worry about slow delivery or shipping times delaying your participants reward gratification. Utilize incentive travel services.