Delaying gratification means putting off instantaneous pleasure to develop our talents so that we can grow emotionally, intellectually and spiritually. Examples of delaying gratification include eating vegetables before the desert, studying instead of playing, working to achieve a goal and keeping our promises to others and ourselves. Delaying gratification requires being faithful to our commitments. Those who have struggled to achieve a prize know that there is joy in the journey to success. There is as Robert Frost wrote, “the pleasure in taking pains.”