We all sometimes have a tendency of thinking that we’ve done enough. At that moment when you’ve handed those six blankets to that homeless family or when you put in the last payment on that car you’ve wanted for a while or bought your wife that expensive Swiss chocolate, a feeling of deep satisfaction sets in and causes you to relax. How true it is that there is a wonderful confidence and comfort that comes from doing good.
But there is a great danger that lurks always when good has been attained – the danger of complacency. For it is in moments of complacency that the good can be stolen away & mediocrity creeps in without us knowing. A while ago I had an experience of hearing a successful man teach on the subject of practical ways of reaching better heights in our lives and it pushed me to think in a totally new way. One could sense a burning in him as he spoke about these principles and as he questioned why there always seems to be a disconnect between the reality of our lives and the ideal. Then came the statement that shocked everyone. He went on to say that he was restless about his life and that he was, in fact, unhappy about it. He declared boldly that he desperately needed to do more! Oh, the gasps. Here was a man considered to be highly successful and a top executive, saying what he’d done was not enough. How could this be?
It got me thinking. Many times we become complacent and mediocre because of the standard we set for ourselves. Once we think we’ve got it, we sit back, order the champagne and do no more. But what would happen if we constantly challenged ourselves and realised that for every level we reach, there is something higher. How dynamic, fresh, relevant and useful we’d be!
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