WHEN ARE WE SATISFIED IN LIFE?
71SUCCESS = SATISFACTION?
We are never satisfied. We can be content for a time, but then, the grass is always greener on the other side of the fence. People are never satisfied. There is always one more thing making room for itself on the wish list. The world changes constantly to allow for growth, without which nothing can exist. No matter how much money you have, you still have to spend it. The more you make, the more you spend. We are usually in love with someone who is in love with someone else.
One door closes, another door opens. That's the way it is in life. We try one thing, then move on to another like a bee going from flower to flower tasting all the honey. Each move we make is a gamble. It may get us where we want to go. But then we get bored there and want to be somewhere else.
The key is to follow your bliss. Whatever makes you happy, do it. If you feel like a salmon swimming upstream, switch gears and find another direction to swim in. Jump in fearlessly and swim as far as you can go without cramping yourself. You can always stay close enough to the edge that you can swim to safety, if needed.
Your body lets you know when you are moving in the wrong direction. Sometimes you might have chest pains when dealing with someone you need to get out of your life. Sometimes you bang your head when you're not paying attention. Got a twitch in your left eye? Pay more attention to what is happening. You might be having issues you are not dealing with. Maybe these are some of the physical signs of that. You may have something much worse like cancer (who knows what really causes this anyways?!!!) or diverticulosis due to high stress. You may have ibs. Whatever the physical signs are that are manifesting in your life, there is a reason. Identify and withdraw from it.
Find ways to relax and take care of yourself in between spurts of exerting energy in ways that are exciting to you. You are satisfied ENOUGH when you have a job that gives you the freedom of expression that makes you happy. When you have children that make you proud. When you can laugh at your own mistakes. When you have love in your heart, and you have people who love you. That type of success brings satisfaction.
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tony0724 says:
6 months ago
Interesting . This Is my take however lame It may be . We have a hole Inside all of us that Is a spiritual void . We try to fill It with sex and materialism ,because the advertising execs on Madison Ave tell us that we have to have that car or that big flat screen TV or that liposuction or any of a number of material things In order for us to be complete .
And here In America we are measured by our stuff ! Now we are paying the price for our extravagences because we bought on credit more then we could afford . It Is not just Baracks and Dubyas fault , we are every bit as responsible for the current economic climate .
My point being It Is human nature to be searchers . We have been fooled Into believing that our altar of consumerism and worldly ways Is always the answer and to make us complete as a person . For me I have to fill the void spiritually and yes I mean God . I am not a religious man by any means ,but I have learned after almost half a century on this planet the folly of my pursuit of all things sexual and material . I do not have everything I want but truthfully I have way more then I really need . But I hope never to be completely content .
Because I believe that self satisfaction breeds laziness