In a previous post, I noted myself winning a piano competition.  Prior to the day of the competition, I made a deal with my mother.  A couple of weeks ago, I received my phone, and I now text 24/7, which has made my mom very angry and threaten to cancel the plan, because it "distracted me from piano and school".  This deal was this:  If I won the competition, my mother could never ever threaten to take my phone away.  That had a great effect one me.  First, it made it so that I had to practice harder for the competition, because I needed that deal.  But second, it put a lot of stress on me, because if I lost, then my mother would be able to blame it on the fact that I have a phone, and it "distracted me from my practice"