>>you need to keep your cravings for instant gratification at bay and focus on the activities that make you closer to your goals. >>you need to make yourself stop being satisfied instead work on the activities to make achieve your goals sooner. >>is my explanation correct? Close, but not so accurate. Here "craving instant gratification" - is more about spending time and being distracted from other things. "being satisfied" suggests being complacent, not having ambition for more. This maybe true, but is not what is stated. "sooner" is not stated either. "closer" is used instead. You need to control your need for immediate pleasure/satisfaction and instead work on the activities that move you towards your goals. You need to control your need for immediate pleasure/satisfaction and instead work on the activities that bring your goals nearer. You need to sideline your need for immediate pleasure/satisfaction and instead work on the activities that bring your goals nearer.

"you need to keep your cravings for instant gratification at bay and focus on the activities that keep you closer to your goals." "you need to stop being satisfied and instead work on the activities that will make you achieve your goals sooner."

You need to .......activities that GET you closer to your goals. Or you can say, "activities that BRING you closer to ACHIEVING your goals"