Rejecting Complacency While We Still Have Time

Complacency — a feeling of smug or uncritical satisfaction with oneself or one’s achievements.

In other words, you’re settling. How many of you can admit there is some aspect of your life you are guilty of this in? Now how many of you will admit complacency? It’s okay to do and there are many of us that are at fault of this whether it be within a relationship, work, or even yourself. It’s one thing to say it, but the willingness to change it and the opportunity we have to reject such complacency is what I want you to put to action so how?

Eliminate “good enough” standards.

When we strive for “good enough,” we will inevitably continue to fall in the middle of the pack in almost everything. If you’ve ever heard the quote, “if your dreams don’t scare you, then they aren’t big enough?” It’s kind of like that. When I sit down to write to you all, I want to push to the side a mediocre mindset and put to paper exactly what will change a person’s first thought tomorrow morning — maybe even their next thought today.

On the days I lack the time necessary to formulate something meaningful and of resonance for each of you, I choose to postpone and I accept the delay because life lessons can’t be encapsulated into paragraph sentences. This is how I begin to eliminate the “good enough” standards in my writing, but I understand this has the potential to lack relation to your life so where is your beginning?