Content with Discontent

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Alright, friends. I know there are many of you in this place we call "stuck." You don't know what to do, how to get unstuck, and it's driving you mad. 

Maybe it's you, or maybe it's everyone else that's the culprit... At least that's the way the tapes play over in your mind. 

The reality you see is this:

You're being overlooked. Everyone around you is getting the opportunities you wish you had. Others that started out behind you have now exceeded you on your desired path to success. 

How do we learn to be content with the discontent? How do we do it and not have it result in apathy, instead driving us to self reflect, self assess and pioneer forward once again? 

Content with the discontent. 

It's not an easy place to be. Frankly, it's a skill few possess. 

Most begin pointing fingers of blame. Blame at the circumstance, blame at the leadership or others. But rarely do people learn how to live at peace in a place and season they would never willingly choose to be. 

Far too often we approach the current season with an unrealistic mindset. We think, if I just wait it out long enough, the stars will eventually align. 

Stars aligning. It just doesn't happen that way. 

Life is less like the powerball and a whole lot more like a treadmill. 

We sit on the couch of our lives, waiting for the lottery to strike us.  Waiting for lightning to strike.  Waiting for the stars to align in our favor. 

Meanwhile, the person next door gets on the treadmill and puts in effort day after day. Prepares themselves with winning habits. 

So here's the real question. 

What do you want for an outcome? If there's something you feel exceptionally passionate about seeing happen.... a role you want to fill, things you want to accomplish.... Is it your desire to see those things happen, or to live in the land of disappointment? 

If you don't want the current discomfort, then learn everything you can in your current season. Change everything within your power now. Prepare yourself with championship habits now. And most importantly, recognize that we go through seasons. Some of them we would choose and others we must endure.  

Do you have championship habits? Let’s not be a losing team because we don’t have a winning mindset.

When we choose to foster championship habits now, we will reap the benefits of those habits one day in the future.