Don’t Eat the Marshmallow… yet!
Marshmallows are sweet confection – a candy. They’ve been around since the mid-1800s. They are called “marshmallows” because part of the early recipe called for sap from the root of the marshmallow plant.
However, I’m not going to talk about Marshmallow’s recipe. I want to share a very good book known as Don’t Eat the Marshmallow… yet! 
It’s a very thought provoking book by Joachim de Posada and Ellen Singer. This is the kind of inspirational book that I love to read.
Well, if you want to succeed in anything, you need to invest your time reading motivational and inspirational books (instead of reading magazines on celebrities or fashions.. ha..ha..ha).
Don’t Eat the Marshmallow… yet! told some stories of Jonathan Patient (a billionaire) and his chauffeur, Arthur. He taught Arthur the Marshmallow principles with everyday life stories. Arthur who has been working as a driver for so many years due to no paper qualification, applied what her boss taught and a year later, he resigned and go to university.
The story started with Jonathan’s own experience when he was 4 years old. He participated in an experiment about the effects of delayed gratification or pleasure in children.
Kids his age were placed in a room, one at a time. An adult came and put a marshmallow in front of him. She told him that she will come back in 15 minutes. And, if he didn’t eat the marshmallow when she’s not around, she would reward him with a second marshmallow when she returned.
Just imagine, a 4 year old boy trying to resist a yummy marshmallow in front of him. And, nobody was around to say no. Beside, 15 minutes is a very long period for a toddler. To eat or not to eat?
Jonathan didn’t eat the marshmallow. But, he almost ate it about a dozen times. He even licked it once. But he was trying hard not to eat it because the woman promised him two marshmallow instead of one, if he didn’t eat the first one yet. He tried everything from dancing to singing – to avoid himself from eating.
15 minutes seemed like hours and when the woman returned, she gave her the second marshmallow.
And, those were the two best marshmallows he ever ate, because he earned it! 
Years later, the researchers gathered the ‘marshmallow kids’ and came out with the result.
It turned out that kids who didn’t eat the marshmallow or those who resisted eating for a longer time – did better in school, got along better with others and managed stress better than the kids who ate the first marshmallow as soon as the adult left the room.
The marshmallow-resisters turned out to be much more successful that the marshmallow-eaters.
You see, the ability to RESIST enjoying whatever you have now, will reward you with much much much more greater things in the future. And, that’s the Marshmallow Principle.
You can replace the marshmallow with anything in life – money, good food, designer handbags, branded shoes, expensive makeups, jewelries, TIME used watching TVs/movies/gossiping/day-dreaming/whining/nagging etc.
It’s all about choices. Your choice. 
I’m sharing this because I know many of you are so excited to know how I managed to get that RM9,083.66 income from Google Adsense. All that I can tell you for the time being is, I didn’t eat my marshmallows.. ha..ha 
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Comment by temp. housewife on 11 February 2010:
All right note taken.
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:31 PM
temp, take note ya
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Comment by Rozy on 11 February 2010:
I watched a same study they did on 4 years old kid but using gummy bears in National Geographic. It’s about human and animal behavior (chimpanzee to be exact).
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:33 PM
rozy, oh.. ye ke.. good one.. amazing kan those researches sanggup take so many years to come out with the result
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Comment by zuhaini on 11 February 2010:
oh.. menariknya! the ability to resist!
oh ya, little mama, just one question, when you have an adsense on your blog, do you still entitle the Gliterrati status on Nuffnang? because kalau tak gliterrati, earning kurang, rite..? ye tak..?
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 12:49 PM
zuhaini, adsense and nuffang boleh letak together.. status gliterrati tetap maintain
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catlina Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 3:22 PM
oic
baru tau…baru teringat since blogspot is from google, maybe nuffnang bagi kelonggaran supaya tak dipotong status glitterati tu, tapi kak ros, leh ke kita pilih ads jenis ape nak display mcm nuffnang ?(contoh: in nuffnang, kita boleh reject letak iklan rokok dan alcohol beverages)
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Comment by syigim on 11 February 2010:
wow. nice punch-line at the end la little mama!
like everyone else, i’m really2 motivated and psyched up to know more. in fact, i wanna sign up ASAP!
(err…adakah tak saba2 nk tgk marshmallows diletakkan atas meja depan mata? hihi)
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:28 PM
siqim, saje nak brainwash korang semua dulu.. baru otak clear nak belajar.. banyak lagi nak kena brainwash nih… ha..ha
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Comment by AdD on 11 February 2010:
Ability to resist…
Teori yg menarik…
K.ros, xsabar nak tau citer selanjutnya pasal RM9,083.66 tu… cepat sket bleh… tgn kanan dah gatal ni…
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:29 PM
adD, nak belajar buat duit kena belajar sabar dulu..he..he
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Comment by anasfadilah on 11 February 2010:
kak ros,from what i know u have lots of blog kan,so kira macam semua blog berjaya dan mengahasilkan uwang RM9000,kalau salah harap betulkan
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 3:01 PM
dilla, true i got lots of new blogs (i like to experiment..he..he)..
but my current google adsense income 90% came from ONE old website yang i dah 1 year tak update
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anasfadilah Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:09 PM
itu adalah tererrrrrr! kak ros adalah sumber inspirasi buat uang dari blog!
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Comment by Hanz on 11 February 2010:
Nice one sharing indeed!
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Comment by mama hanis on 11 February 2010:
wahh…kalau that little toddler pun boleh, kita pun mesti boleh!! chaiyok!chaiyok!..hehe..
‘marhsmallow’always in front of us kan little mama? cuma kita sedar o tak sedar je.. (^_^)
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 11th, 2010 at 4:24 PM
mama hanis, ye betul!! banyak yummy marshmallows yang kita terus makan on daily basis..he..he
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Comment by maya on 11 February 2010:
ok. paham sekarang..
tq
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:09 PM
maya, faham eh
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Comment by Zety on 11 February 2010:
Nice one!
Kalau marshmallow depan mata mungkin saya boleh resist. Tapi kalau coklat… hehehe
Kidding
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:09 PM
zety, marshmallow tu contoh je.. boleh replace coklat.. ada boleh resist? kena belajar resist kalau nak berjaya
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Comment by Ummi Khayra on 11 February 2010:
saya n hubby tak makan marshmallow.. so kalo kitorang yg ditest time tu, mesti jadi marshmallow resistor punye… hehehehe
setuju ngan kak ros pasal delayed gratification tu.. kite berkorban sekarang untuk masa depan.. org tua2 kate..
berakit-rakit dahulu,
berenang-renang ke tepian,
bersakit-sakit dahulu,
bersenang-senang kemudian.
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:11 PM
nini, test tu semua budak kecik..pastikah tak rasa nak ngap the marshmallow masa umur 4 tahun..he..he
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Comment by cutiecaliph on 11 February 2010:
I lovesss inspirational stories!!!please feeds us mor with this kind of stories!!
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:11 PM
cutiecaliph, will do
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Comment by sue on 11 February 2010:
wahhhh.. daku rasa tersangatlah highly motivated after read this article
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:11 PM
sue, bagus bagus
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Comment by sumijelly on 15 February 2010:
apa itu marshallow?? hahahaha… x tahu la samaada sumi ad amakan secara langdung atau tidak..dh lupa…kehkehkeh….
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:12 PM
sumi, lupa kah…ha..ha
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Comment by akmafaizal on 17 February 2010:
baru2 ni ade try makan marshmallow.tu pun sebab my niece yg nak mkn. klau my kids yg tru those experiment confirm tak makan. sebab diorg tak habis pun makan marshmallow tu.huhu
but it’s inspiring story.
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:13 PM
akma, marshmallow ni contoh aje sebab budak kat amerika sana memang suka makan marshmallow ni..he..he
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Comment by fatin on 17 February 2010:
alamak.. sy mcm confuse.. resist the temptation is which one actually?
the one not to cash it out? or sumthing totally different?
Help…
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:47 PM
fatin, resist the tempation to everything yg menghalang kita dari berjaya di masa depan.. not to cash pun satu contoh
katalah now ada RM1,000 duit nuffnang, so kita resist dari cash out dah belanja now to buy a branded shoe… say kita hold for another month.. maybe dah dapat 2 kali ganda.. then kita boleh get something more valueable than the shoe.. maybe a laptop to fokus on blogging (kepada yg takde laptop la) so boleh dapat berpuluh kali ganda lebih banyak dari RM1,000 in the future.. can a branded shoe buat you dapat lebih banyak duit?
another contoh is TIME.. ramai kata takde time nak berblogging.. sibuk sebab full time keje.. kalau sahm pulak sibuk jaga anak..semua ada 24 hours tapi kenapa certain people macam banyak masa to multi-task handle lots of blog (tapi dia pun full time working juga)
sebabnya TIME tu macam marshmallow la.. terutama TIME tengok TV, time tidur siang, time tidur awal, time bangun lambat, time termenung, time berborak, time window shopping, time jalan-jalan every weekend.. kalau nak berjaya you have to resist doing all that untuk satu tempoh masa.. bila dah berjaya baru la boleh tidur awal ke.. bangun lambat ke…
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fatin Reply:
February 18th, 2010 at 11:59 AM
aaaaaaaaaa.. ok..ok.. now i understand!!
thanx!!! *hugs*
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Comment by Jiji on 17 February 2010:
Masih sabar menunggu marsmellow seterusnya!
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Little Mama™ Reply:
February 17th, 2010 at 8:52 PM
jiji, jgn makan marshmallow too much.. not good for your kilos also..ha..ha
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Comment by unlisted_one on 18 February 2010:
ouch,..i selau mkn marshmallow i, kena lg sabar lps ni..
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niesa Reply:
June 3rd, 2010 at 11:43 AM
saya pun marshmallow lovers and now selling halal marshmallow – pertama certified by jakim. marshmallow nie bukan saja enak dimakan,pelbagai bentuk yg cantik. boleh dijadikan doorgift/perkahwinan/pertunangan/harijadi/hiasan cake etc. kalau sesiapa interested nak beli or jual, email saya mohamedmimie@yahoo.com
harga sgt berpatutan.
tq
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Comment by norry on 20 February 2010:
RM9,000, huh tu dah lebih leh beli nikon D90 tuh hoho
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