"Learn to be happy with what you have
while you pursue all you want."
- Jim Rohn
It's easy to confuse contentment and complacency. But one is positive and the other is dangerous.
Contentment is a healthy emotional state of gratitude for all that we have.
Complacency is the smug, self-satisfaction with your existing condition and with no desire to improve. Safe is a dangerous place to be. The only direction you can coast is downhill.
Here's a healthy approach to life; hold gratitude in one hand while pursuing possibilities in the other.
Here are three things you can do while you count your blessings;
1. Increase Your Skills.
Develop your strengths. Master your current position. Try your hand at a new technology. Learn a new language. Pick up a new hobby.
2. Explore New Opportunities
Write a book. Start a side hustle. If you are unhappy with your current job, pursue a better situation. Get out of your comfort zone. Try new things.
3. Set Higher Goals
Demand more of yourself. Setting goals is like inputting a destination in a GPS, you become crystal clear on where you want to go. We work best on mission.
Happiness will not come to those who fail to appreciate what they have.
But happiness also will not come to those who fail to be anything less than they are capable of becoming.