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Jun 22, 2013
"Be content with what you have; rejoice in the way things are. When you realize there is nothing lacking, the whole world belongs to you." --Lao Tzu
A 3-Step Guide to Practical Contentment
"We start out in life thinking that we're awesome. We can dance in public as 5-year-olds and not care what others think of us. By the time we're adults, that's driven out of us." We doubt, judge, and criticize ourselves as we strive for happiness. In this article, Leo Babauta discusses how to reclaim contentment and why it can be a better thing to strive for than happiness. In this piece the author of Zen Habits discusses the role of self-trust in attaining contentment, and offers up three helpful practices.
BE THE CHANGE
Today, experiment with switching your focus from pursuing happiness to finding contentment. How does your new mindset affect how you respond to the events of the day?
