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Complacency: Why You Should Be Dissatisfied With Being Satisfied
Do you know that feeling? When everything is going well and life is good? Maybe even a little too good? Your finances are in order, your job is great, your relationship is perfect and your body and mind are in good shape?
I do. It’s awesome to answer “I am very, very satisfied and happy” when someone asks “how are you?”. And to actually mean it. Can’t this just go on forever?
Maybe. But in order to continue your great, awesome, happy life, work needs to be done. Without awareness why life is good right now, what the steps were that led to it, soon enough the enemy lurking around the corner will come into your life.
The enemy is not human. The enemy is not a thing. The enemy is a phenomenon for which the English language has found a wonderful word:
Complacency.
“a feeling of calm satisfaction with your own abilities or situation that prevents you from trying harder.”
Complacency is very natural. If everything is good the way it is, why should you keep working hard? Hard work usually is put in when things need to change, problems need to be solved. But when everything is going well, what problem is there left to solve?
