Eating a donut feels good for five minutes but leaves you feeling worse. Building something, launching a product, or serving your community takes the same time but pays off for life. The choice is yours every single day.
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There's a light bulb that needs to go on with people for them to break out of that mold. And it's the idea of understanding the difference between pleasure and accomplishment. If you're chasing short term pleasure, it's like, it is fun to eat donuts and cake tastes wonderful, but then now you got to deal with the residue. You know, the after effects are not that great. But it's also rewarding to go out there and do something positive, have a success. You go out there and you do something for the community, or even in business, you know, you launch a product, launch a business. And there's some fun from that. Solving problems, making new friends, getting some training you didn't have. But the deal is the payoff for that. You know, you spend the same amount of time, but the payoff goes for the rest of your life.