I can relate - and I also realize that by emphasizing short-term rewards over long-term achievement, I'd been implementing a myopic sort of behaviorism on myself by "rewarding" my immediate successes with hedonistic escapism, which in effect paradoxically demotivated me from actually realizing those long-term goals. Anyway, your article's clearly got me thinking about all this!

I'm hoping to finally get a short post up sometime in the next few weeks, and I'll definitely send you the link! In the meantime, I'll be reading your content and catching up with whatever developments I've missed on Steemit during my absence. :) Glad to see you're still very active here.