It is quite simple, perhaps I should call it a life philosophy – but that is probably overstating it. Imagine a budget (not just based on money but also health, psyche etc.), and for this budget you can buy chocolate. Now as you browser the shop for chocolate there is going to be a range of different prices and tastes, high percentages of cocoa, milk based, coffee tasting, mint, nuts e.t.c. Based on what is available and the price you might reach the conclusion that you can afford chocolate of the midrange quality every weekend. What I have come to understand of myself is that I am the kind of person that would much rather buy the chocolate I prefer the absolute most (think lots of cocoa) but do so at a low frequency based on the budget. That is to say I would much rather eat chocolate I like a lot just one time per month, instead of settling for the less nice chocolate every week.

Simply put it is a quantity vs quality argument.

Another side of this is what I like to think of as a “picking my battles” type of argument. What if I just don’t eat x, then it would be way more easy to just enjoy y. I can live without candy, but I need my freshly pressed fruit juice from time to time. Life deserves a certain balance that is so easy to not respect, everything around us is trying to pull in all directions at once. Finding what works for you is the only way to take control of your direction in life, thus one insight at a time I steer myself towards harmony (I just had to end on a high note…;).

The rest of my life-philosophy I leave for my future best selling self-motivation book scheduled for the year 2100.

*update*

Also check out http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marshmallow_Test – Deferred gratification.

See you then

Richard