It’s not easy to feel contented and happy in our media-driven world where every advertiser’s aim is to make you feel discontent (until you buy their product). Discontentment leads to bitterness, striving, stress, depression, and disunity. To combat discontentment, we need to intentionally foster attitudes of contentment and gratitude. I hope these posts inspire you to overcome discontentment in your life this week.
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Our society is rife with discontentment, but we can choose differently.
Here are ten ways to enjoy a more satisfied life by practicing contentment.
Choosing to maintain an attitude of gratefulness despite our troubles will help us cope with stress, boost our overall health, and enable us to function better. Here are three simple ways to model gratitude.
An artist trains herself to see nuances of light and color the rest of miss. In like fashion, we can train ourselves to notice the good. We can practice the habit of looking for beauty and kindness wherever we are.
Most of us won’t start the day with a positive outlook unless we intentionally work for it by adding some positive thought habits to our morning routine. Here are five ways to improve your morning mindset.
Here are a few posts on overcoming discontentment from around the blogosphere.
In our consumeristic-culture where discontent is promoted and material gratification is encouraged, learning to be content can be very difficult. It is certainly a personal journey that we all must travel and nobody’s journey will look the same. Learn six secrets for living a contented life at Becoming Minimalist.
Being content about being able to appreciate where you are at that moment in time instead of sulking about what you don’t have or constantly thinking the grass is greener on the other side. If you just can’t seem to be satisfied and appreciate the present moment, here are 15 tips to be content in life from Mellowed.com
Sometimes we can get bogged down by life and focus on what we don’t have. This post from Intentional by Grace shares 4 Biblical concepts that guide and inspire us to “be content in all circumstances.”
Here’s a short video on why and attitude of gratitude is so beneficial, with suggestions for practicing a more grateful life.
