Recently, in the management seminar, I was
speaking about being grateful for what we
got in life. After the session, one participant asked me if we are
grateful and content with what we have, does it not lead to
complacent and stop our growth further?
I realized that I should have explained elaborately more about gratitude, being content and complacency as
it requires clarity for most of us.
My perspective on this is as follows:
Contentment
means being grateful for what you got or achieved. For example, with so many
years of hard work and dedication, you
might have attained your dream senior
leadership position in your organization. You can be grateful for the
achievement and remember all the people with gratitude. That is grateful and
contentment.
But it
will or should not stop you to think next level promotion. Obviously the next
level growth demands further more hard
work, skill set and if you are not ready
to invest yourself in skill development and hard work, then you become
complacent. To put it simply, when possibilities are there for higher level
growth and if you are not willing to invest yourself, that is complacent.
To summarize, being grateful and content
will give you peace of mind and that
peace of mind will enable you for
next level growth provided you are ready to pay the price for that. If you are
not ready, you become complacent, not due to grateful. Hence grateful does not
lead to complacency!
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