My business partners and I agreed to take minimal salaries until we hit certain revenue targets but now that we're close one of us wants to renegotiate because their spouse is pregnant and we all understand but we're also afraid that if one person breaks early it will be easier for everyone to give up on our original plan.
More people experience this than they realize.
A group commitment to delayed gratification is being tested by individual life circumstances that make waiting genuinely harder for some members than others.
“Where Are You with Saving and the psychology of deferred gratification?”
If this sounds familiar, the Library can help you find the bigger picture.