Delayed gratification through lease agreements

Every business owner talks about long-term thinking.
But few actually create a life that enables it.

Until last week, I couldn’t.
Why? Because I didn’t even know where I’d live next month.

That kind of uncertainty forces short-term thinking.
You make reactive moves. You chase fast money.
You build for survival, not the future.

So to get out of this cycle of short-term thinking, I signed a yearly lease on a Bali villa.

This commitment to stay in Bali for a year allows me to:

• Think 12 months ahead instead of 12 days.

• Get into a good routine and workflow.

• Water the tree that is my business without needing instant fruit.

Because here’s the reframe:

You can’t delay gratification if you’re living life in survival mode.

Now that the chaos will be gone soon, I can choose my hard:

• Building long-term systems instead of just making sales

• Creating high-leverage content instead of one-off posts

• Prioritizing long-term health instead of temporary output

The lesson:
A tree can only grow as tall as the roots are deep,
and for that you need to be firmly planted somewhere for the roots to grow.

If you’re tired of running your business in survival mode and you want to re-engineer your business systems around stability, growth and scale, reply “Audit” and we’ll do a free operational audit for your business and show you what operational bottlenecks you can remove with Notion, AI and automation.

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Chris “The Systemizer” Punt