Please Wait. Waiting can be challenging for even the most patient person. Delayed gratification is the delay in the state of being gratified. In today’s society everything is instant and that is the expected mindset. You can even ask Alexa to change the song, turn down your lights or change your TV show in an instant. As Peter Benson put it so eloquently in Sparks: How Parents Can Ignite the Hidden Strengths of Teenagers, "teens don’t have time to wait, and they’re surround

I have embraced the mindset for the past 40 years that “I will have time to sleep when I am dead”. This seemed to work for me since I truly embrace each golden minute of the 24 hours in a day. Well as you age your body does not always give you 100% after maintaining 5-6 hours a sleep in a row. As I pushed ahead to keep deadlines , a mindset of “Wonder Women”, and delegate little & do a lot my body was giving me signs that I choose to disregard. After being run down with a co