Aspiration benefit

Lifetime Aspiration Benefits become available to Sims as they fill their Lifetime aspiration bar. There are four areas in which these can be spent: motives, work, primary aspiration and secondary aspiration. Benefits must be gained in order per category. Children can only spend points in motives and work categories until they choose a primary aspiration when they become a teen.

= Benefits =

Motives

 * 1) Slower Motive Decay - Social and Comfort
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Bladder and Hygiene
 * 3) Slower Motive Decay - Fun and Hunger
 * 4) Slower Motive Decay - Energy

Work

 * 1) Life of Luxury - Gain vacation days faster
 * 2) Business Instinct - Career Chance cards are right 80% of the time
 * 3) Friends in High Places - Family Friend requirements for promotions are reduced by one
 * 4) Plead for Job - Chance to plead to the boss via the phone for 24 hours after being fired

Knowledge

 * 1) Slower Motive Decay - Social and Fun
 * 2) Impart Knowledge - Teach another Sim a skill you know well
 * 3) Eureka! - Increases rate of learning
 * 4) Summon Aliens - Attempt to hitch a ride on passing UFOs

Family

 * 1) Grandma's Comfort Soup - Cook a soup that increases comfort and cures any illness
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Fun and Comfort
 * 3) Plead with the Social Worker
 * 4) Super Fertility - Greatly increased chance of giving birth to twins

Popularity

 * 1) Hospitality - More likely to bring friends home from work or school
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Bladder and Energy
 * 3) 3-way Calling
 * 4) Fast Friends - Larger positive relationship gains

Fortune

 * 1) Skilled Negotiator - Larger salaries
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Fun and Comfort
 * 3) Financial Advice for Cash
 * 4) Investing - Each afternoon your Sim has a chance to gain or lose family funds. Other members of the household who have this benefit increases your chances of making a profit.

Romance

 * 1) Massive attraction - boost in Chemistry
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Hygiene and Energy
 * 3) Local legend - more Sims walk by
 * 4) Smooth talk - A 90% chance a cheating Sim will reunite with loved ones faster.

Pleasure

 * 1) Fast Metabolism - Burn fat faster
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Bladder and Energy
 * 3) Write Restaurant Guide - A new interaction accessible on any computer. Writing a guide takes a few hours of work, after which the guide is sold for upwards of a thousand Simoleons, depending on the author's Cooking skill and Cuisine enthusiasm. The best guides make around three to four thousand Simoleons. Similar to writing novels, but much faster.
 * 4) Rowdy Folk Song

Grilled Cheese

 * 1) Bottomless Stomach - Gain fat slower
 * 2) Slower Motive Decay - Bladder
 * 3) Paint Grilled Cheese
 * 4) Conjure Grilled Cheese - Create a stack of Grilled Cheese (drains comfort and energy)

Secondary aspirations

 * The wants and fears of any aspiration other than the Sim's primary aspiration and its first three benefits.