I've read bits and pieces that delaying gratification can help people be more successful in life, in all aspects really, financially, in their health and in relationships. Do you find it easy or hard to control impulses for the various forms of pleasure and if so what tricks/methods helped you take your desires and defer them for a future that isn't guaranteed?
Dr. Jordan Peterson put delaying gratification as bargaining with your future self, with the intention of being around in the future even though there is no guarantee that will be the case.