Enjoying what you have is different from deciding you want nothing more.

GRATITUDE

WHAT THIS MEANS

People avoid contentment because they think it will cost them ambition. But enjoying your life now says nothing about whether you keep building it, and the two run on separate tracks. Refusing to enjoy anything until you arrive is a habit that will not switch off when you do arrive.

Practise appreciating something specific about your current circumstances without adding a qualification about what comes next. Keep the ambition. Just stop making it a condition for finding the present acceptable.

A QUESTION TO SIT WITH

What do you enjoy now and still hope to improve?

MORE IN GRATITUDE & PRESENCE

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